Jazz in the Park is BACK! Join us Saturday, July 19, 2025 | 2PM–8PM at Mill Pond Park in Saline, MI for an unforgettable day of live jazz, local art, food trucks, and family fun! Score some giveaways. Bring your chairs or blankets and chill by the pond. FREE admission | Family-friendly | Rain or […]

2 Stones Events and the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts have teamed up to present the Brighton Blues Bash! — an evening featuring two of metro-Detroit’s finest acts: Boogie-woogie blues piano master Mr. B, and Detroit’s Queen of the Blues, Thornetta Davis — presented by Cooper & Binkley Jewelers. Tickets are just $15 for […]

The 30th Annual FREE Michigan Jazz Festival will be held on Sunday, July 20th from Noon to 9 pm with a guitar Jazz Clinic at 11 am. Enjoy 40 bands on 7 stages and Jazz Talk informative and delightful presentations in the Schoolcraft College’s newly renovated Vistatech Center and in the Tent outside. Event merchandise […]

Join us as we close out another season with some of our favorites! In this edition of our Potpourri Concert expect to hear Exultations, French and Arabic melodies and some gems from Kurt Weill. Reception to follow.

Bringing the festival to a close with music built from small, repeating patterns, Closing Night:Wireworks explores how repeated shapes give rise to deep emotional worlds. Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 2 unfolds in flowing, intricate layers, each phrase subtly echoing the last, while Brahms’s Two Songs for Voice, Viola, and Piano weaves voice and viola into […]

A favorite of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Musical Chairs comes from the imagination of Shouse Institute Director Philip Setzer. Shouse groups, made up of emerging professional ensembles, are deconstructed and reassembled as fellows are challenged to perform together for the first time. Each group will include one special member and coach from our […]

Inspired by Ruth Adler Schnee’s textile Strata Echo, this concert explores the beauty of layered design in both fabric and sound. Hannah Kendall’s Network Bed weaves melodies in intricate patterns, followed by Frank Bridge’s Cello Sonata, where lines of music stretch and pivot with emotional depth. The evening concludes with Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2, […]

Step inside St. Hugo of the Hills for an evening that explores the musical building blocks at the heart of great compositions. World-renowned organist James O’Donnell, former Master of Music at Westminster Abbey, leads a powerful program featuring organ concertos by Handel and Poulenc. Joined by works from Saint-Saëns and Composer-in-Residence Hannah Kendall, Cornerstone reveals […]

Textures explores the layered meanings of “tract” through three powerful and contrasting chamber works. Franz Schubert’s unfinished String Trio in B-flat Major opens the program with a compact, elegant study in musical motion, balancing ascending arpeggios and descending scales in a kind of lyrical pamphlet. Joan Tower’s To Sing or Dance, a newly commissioned piece, […]

Shouse Soundscapes explores the concept of orthography—the architectural idea of elevation and shadow—through a vibrant range of performances by Shouse emerging artists. The program features original works by Dillon Scott and The Dolphins, blending composition and improvisation to capture fleeting emotional moments with striking immediacy. Brahms’s Adagio from his Piano Trio No. 1 offers a […]