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Connecting Chords brings Duke Ellington's sacred music back to West Michigan after 60 years (opens the original)
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The Connecting Chords Music Festival presents Duke Ellington's sacred concert music this Saturday at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in downtown Kalamazoo. The concert brings together a big band, vocal soloists, a choir and a tap dancer soloist. Cara Lieurance talks with Festival executive director Elizabeth Start, performer/researcher Dr. Beau Bothwell, and Western Michigan University jazz professor Dr. Scott Cowan to hear more about the one-of-a-kind event. Bothwell explains that he's
Relic brings Latin American Baroque drama to Fontana's 25th season opener (opens the original)
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Fontana Chamber Arts opens its 25th anniversary season Friday, Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Dalton Center Recital Hall at Western Michigan University with Relic, a conductorless Baroque ensemble co-founded by Kalamazoo native cellist Cullen O'Neill. Fontana's new executive director, Sophié van der Westhuizen, and O'Neill speak with Cara Lieurance about the program, "The Blood of the Rose." The title comes from La Púrpura de la Rosa, the first opera performed in the Americas. Spanish-born composer
Cellist Mike Block returns to Kalamazoo with the trio Biribá Union (opens the original)
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Grammy-winning cellist and singer Mike Block returns to the Connecting Chords Music Festival on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. in Bell's Back Room, just a year after his group Djékady brought the audience to its feet there. This time he brings Biribá Union, a trio with Washington, D.C., beatboxer, rapper and guitarist Christylez Bacon and electric bassist Patricia Ligia of Montevideo, Uruguay. "I love cross-cultural collaborations," Block tells Cara Lieurance. The three musicians meet through the
Sounds of the Zoo is underway across Kalamazoo (opens the original)
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Sounds of the Zoo, Kalamazoo's free, weeklong music festival, runs through Sunday, Sept. 27 at venues across the city. Festival founder Jennifer Hudson-Prenkert and Great Lakes Brass leader Fred Bueltmann join WMUK's Cara Lieurance and Angela Graham to talk about the festival's fifth year. The week opened Monday night with a singers-in-the-round show and Matt Gross and Friends at the Clover Room. Tuesday is Celebrating Women in Music night at Bell's with Grace Theisen and Kylee Phillips. Wednesd
Canadiana Fest takes Canadian culture to the streets of Kalamazoo (opens the original)
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Downtown Kalamazoo prepares to swap its sidewalks for a celebration of Canada this Saturday, Sep 19, as the Canadiana Fest's annual Can-Am Peace Jam moves to a new "Catalyst Commons" location spanning Water Street, the Municipal Parking Lot and Haymarket Plaza. Founder Channon Mondoux tells Cara Lieurance that the shift comes after the festival's usual home, Arcadia Creek Festival Place, closed for reconstruction — a change she is turning into an advantage. "Now it is literally a street festival
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