X Ambassadors, Goo Goo Dolls, Simple Plan - Photo Recap

Share the story

It was a big concert week with plenty of big shows — at venues big and small — across West Michigan. Browse the images at Local Spins.

‘Floor Seats’: A$AP Ferg brought the tour behind his new recording to 20 Monroe Live on Saturday. (Photo/Anthony Norkus)

SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTO GALLERIES

Support our coverage of
West Michigan's music scene

It was a big concert week with some big names — at venues big and small across West Michigan.

There was the Kalamazoo tour stop by 1990s heroes Goo Goo Dolls at State Theatre, the same night that the Celeste Allison Trio held its album-release show at Old Dog Tavern, New York alt-rockers X Ambassadors lit up 20 Monroe Live in Grand Rapids, Michigan’s own pop/soul artist Tunde Olaniran brought his dance-hued display to The Pyramid Scheme and singer-songwriter David Bazan kicked off a two-night stand at Listening Room.

High-Flying Set: X Ambassadors on stage at 20 Monroe Live. (Photo/Jamie Geysbeek)

Earlier in the week, singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus rocked Calvin University’s Covenant Fine Arts Center, David Wax Museum christened the new Listening Room, pop-punk/emo’s Simple Plan and State Champs revved up 20 Monroe Live and the Seratones brought their soulful attack to The Pyramid Scheme.

Later in the weekend, hip hop’s A$AP Ferg returned to Grand Rapids, pumping up 20 Monroe Live, while Kalamazoo hip hop cellist Jordan Hamilton and Jessica Ivey played Kalamazoo’s Sandbox Listening Room (a night after performing at Grand Rapids’ Harmony Hall).

Browse the images from all these shows at Local Spins. And check out a separate concert recap and photo gallery from Bazan’s stint at Listening Room: David Bazan provokes and inspires at Grand Rapids’ Listening Room