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SUMMARY:Billy Bragg
DESCRIPTION:The Roaring Forty USA Tour 2024 \nIn 2023 Billy Bragg kicked off a celebration of a remarkable 40 years as Britain’s favourite folk singer\, songwriter and campaigner. To mark this significant landmark\, he has released an acclaimed career-spanning box set ‘The Roaring Forty’ and has played to sell-out crowds across the world. In November he performed his most famous song ‘A New England’ on Later With Jools Holland almost exactly 40 years to the day that he debuted the song on The Tube (also presented by one Jools Holland!). \nGalvanised in the late 70s by The Clash and an aversion to the austere policies of Margaret Thatcher\, Billy set out to inspire political engagement and empathy. He has performed numerous benefit shows for the miners\, the Labour party\, CND\, the jobless and many more\, and has run the Left Field political stage at Glastonbury for the last 20 years. \nBilly has released 11 solo studio albums\, three albums of Woody Guthrie lyrics set to contemporary music by Billy and Wilco (the Mermaid Avenue albums) and one album with Joe Henry. He released a mini album Bridges Not Walls in 2017. His latest studio album\, the acclaimed ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’ came out in 2021. \nBilly Bragg added best-selling author to his CV with the success of his acclaimed 2017 book Roots\, Radicals & Rockers – How Skiffle Changed The World. He has written two books of political analysis –  The Progressive Patriot: A Search For Belonging (2006) and The Three Dimensions of Freedom (2019). \nBilly won the Outstanding Contribution To British Music Award at the prestigious Ivors Awards in 2018. Born and raised in Barking\, East London\, Billy has a street named after him in his home town – Bragg Close. This year Billy has been honoured with a pavement plaque on the Camden Music Walk Of Fame (previous recipients include Madness\, Amy Winehouse\, The Who\, David Bowie\, and The Kinks)
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LOCATION:The Majestic Theatre\, 4140 Woodward Ave.\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dwight Yoakam
DESCRIPTION:Dwight Yoakam has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide\, and he is a 21-time nominated\, multiple GRAMMY Award winner. He has 12 gold albums and 9 platinum or multi-platinum albums\, with five of those albums topping Billboard’s Country Albums chart and another 14 landing in the Top 10. Nearly 40 of Yoakam’s singles have charted on Billboard\, with 14 peaking in the Top 10. Yoakam is a recipient of the Artist of the Year award from the Americana Music Association\, and BMI Country Music’s President’s Award\, the most prestigious award offered by the organizations. He was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in the Songwriter/Artist category at the 49th anniversary Gala in 2019 in Nashville\, TN. \nYoakam’s self-curated SiriusXM channel\, titled Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat ‘Where Country Went Mod’ launched in April of 2018. The channel celebrates the Bakersfield sound and those whom it has inspired. Guests have boasted the likes of Post Malone\, Lukas Nelson\, Beck\, Chris Hillman\, Jakob Dylan\, Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolans\, Dave Alvin\, and Jackie DeShannon\, among others. \nIn 2016\, Yoakam released his bluegrass album Swimmin’ Pools\, Movie Stars… on Sugar Hill Records. Featuring a band of bluegrass luminaries\, this album boasts a collection of reinterpreted favorites from his catalogue\, as well as a cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain”. Produced by nine-time GRAMMY winner Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss\, Dolly Parton)\, Jon Randall (songwriter of “Whiskey Lullaby”)\, and Yoakam himself\, and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge\, this album reflects the love for bluegrass music that Yoakam developed at an early age in Kentucky and that has inspired him for many years thereafter. In 2018\, Yoakam released two songs\, “Pretty Horses” and “Then Came Monday” (the latter written with Chris Stapleton). \nIn addition to his musical career\, Yoakam is a formidable film and television actor who has appeared in over 40 feature films\, including Sling Blade and Panic Room. In 2016\, he recurred in David E. Kelley’s Amazon series Goliath. Recently\, he appeared in director Steven Soderbergh’s film Logan Lucky with Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig. Yoakam is capable of seamlessly melting into his roles and impressively standing toe-to-toe with some of the world’s top thespians over the course of his storied and successful acting career\, including Jodie Foster\, Tommy Lee Jones\, Jared Leto\, Forest Whitaker and Matthew McConaughey.
URL:https://theark.qltddev.com/event/dwight-yoakam-241003/
LOCATION:The Majestic Theatre\, 4140 Woodward Ave.\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
DESCRIPTION:Grammy winner Molly Tuttle brings her band to The Majestic Theatre with their new album\, City of Gold. One of the most compelling new voices in the roots music world\, Molly Tuttle is a virtuosic multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter with a lifelong love of bluegrass\, a genre the Northern California-bred artist first discovered thanks to her father (a music teacher and multi-instrumentalist) and grandfather (a banjo player whose Illinois farm she visited often throughout her childhood). \nCity of Gold\,  the follow-up to 2022’s Crooked Tree—a widely lauded LP that won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album\, with Tuttle earning a Best New Artist nomination—the Northern California-raised musician’s fourth full-length album brings those narratives to a resplendent form of bluegrass rooted in her virtuosic guitar playing. Like Crooked Tree\, whose accolades also include an International Folk Music Award for Album of the Year\, City of Gold\, is co-produced with bluegrass legend Jerry Douglas\, showcasing the extraordinary musicianship that made Tuttle the first woman ever named Guitar Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. But this time around\, the Nashville-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist chose to record with her live band for the first time—a move that lends a potent new energy to her exquisitely crafted sound. “When I was a kid we took a field trip to Coloma\, California\, to learn about the gold rush\,” says Tuttle in revealing the inspiration behind City of Gold. “Just like gold fever\, music has always captivated me and driven me to great lengths to explore its depths.” Noting that City of Gold “celebrates the music of my heart\, the land where I grew up\, and the stories I heard along the way\,” Tuttle found her band essential to every aspect of the LP.
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LOCATION:The Majestic Theatre\, 4140 Woodward Ave.\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Broken Social Scene
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the 20th anniversary of their album\, You Forgot It In People\, Broken Social Scene are playing songs from their seminal sophomore album\, among many more hits. \nAt the dawn of the 21st-century\, just as the internet began infecting every aspect of our daily lives\, Toronto musicians Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning began building a social network of their own. Like other such networks you’re familiar with\, it quickly expanded to include friends\, and friends of friends. It became a place where they could live out their best lives or fret about the fragile state of the world. And yes\, occasionally\, it became a forum for arguments and oversharing. But this social network didn’t require you to stay glued to your smartphone to take part in it. Quite the opposite: Since debuting in 2001\, Broken Social Scene have personified the unyielding\, incomparable power of IRL human connection. \nIt’s hard to know what to make of an ongoing experiment like Broken Social Scene. Is it a band? Not quite. Bands tend to have defined memberships and aesthetics and goals; Broken Social Scene have never been bothered with such limitations. Is it a cult? Nah— some of them have the beards\, but they could never agree on the right robes. Is it a collective? Certainly\, it can seem that way when you see some 15 people crowding the stage\, but BSS aren’t so much a united front as a perpetually mutating aggregate of competing creative energies. \nOnce a two-person basement recording project\, Broken Social Scene came to life onstage as a shadowy improvisational entity with a revolving-door roster\, each concert a wholly unique experience dependent on the room\, the weather\, what they ate for dinner that night\, and who was dropping in to play. Where the band’s 2001 debut album\, Feel Good Lost\, presented BSS as an anonymous ambient project that reflected its humble\, homespun origins\, their electrifying live performances from that era rallied an extended family of performers with roots in post-rock (Justin Peroff\, Do Make Say Think’s Charles Spearin)\, Latin jazz (Andrew Whiteman)\, art-folk (Feist)\, synth-pop (Amy Millan and Evan Cranley\, also of Stars)\, dance-punk (Metric’s Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw)\, and country rock (Jason Collett). \nBut by pursuing improvisational freedom over commercial considerations\, Broken Social Scene set a new gold standard for indie rock in the 21st century with 2002’s You Forgot It In People\, an album that pushed the genre far beyond its noisy ’90s slacker roots toward a more sonically expansive\, emotionally expressive vision. And with follow-up releases like the blissfully chaotic Broken Social Scene (2005)\, the rapturous Forgiveness Rock Record (2010)\, and the intricate\, insidiously melodic Hug of Thunder (2017)\, Broken Social Scene have amassed a thrillingly amorphous\, unpredictable body of work. \nThroughout their two-decade run\, Broken Social Scene have achieved all the markers of modern indie success—rave reviews from Pitchfork\, invites to play Coachella and Lollapalooza\, multiple Juno Awards and Letterman appearances\, and name-drops in Lorde songs. And their victories have ultimately been Toronto’s\, through the establishment of a record label (Arts & Crafts) and music festival (Field Trip) that became rallying points for the local scene and nurtured the next generation of indie upstarts. But arguably Broken Social Scene’s greatest accomplishment is their mere existence\, as a conglomerate that continues to defy all logistical convention and musical expectations. They’re living proof that underdogs are most effective when travelling in a pack\, that mass audiences can be led into uncharted waters through collective enthusiasm\, and that the better world we all dream of begins with community. \nIn both sound and personnel\, Broken Social Scene has changed a lot since their 2001 inception. But one thing has remained constant—at the end of every show\, Kevin Drew bids the crowd adieu by telling everyone to “enjoy your lives.” More than just a simple farewell\, those words are a call to action—to put down your goddamn phone\, get outside\, and be part of a social scene of your own.
URL:https://theark.qltddev.com/event/broken-social-scene-231002/
LOCATION:The Majestic Theatre\, 4140 Woodward Ave.\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48201\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Wood Brothers
DESCRIPTION:The Wood Brothers didn’t know they were making a record. Looking back\, they’re grateful for that. \n“If we had known\, we probably would have been too self-conscious to play what we played\,” reflects bassist/vocalist Chris Wood. “At the time\, we just thought we were jamming to break in our new studio\, so we felt free to explore all these different ways of performing together without worrying about form or structure. It was liberating.” \nRecorded live to tape\, those freewheeling\, improvised sessions became a vast pool of source material from which The Wood Brothers would go on to draw ‘Kingdom In My Mind\,’ their seventh studio release and most spontaneous and experimental collection yet. While on past records\, the band—Chris\, guitarist/vocalist Oliver Wood\, and drummer/keyboardist Jano Rix—would write a large batch of songs and then record them all at once\, ‘Kingdom’ found them retroactively carving tunes out of sprawling instrumental jam sessions like sculptors chipping away at blocks of marble. A testament to the limitless creativity of the unharnessed mind\, the record explores the power of our external surroundings to shape our internal worlds (and vice versa)\, reckoning with time\, mortality\, and human nature. The songs here find strength in accepting what lies beyond our control\, thoughtfully honing in on the bittersweet beauty that underlies doubt and pain and sadness with vivid character studies and unflinching self-examination. Deep as the lyrics dig\, the arrangements always manage to remain buoyant and light\, though\, drawing from across a broad sonic spectrum to create a transportive\, effervescent blend that reflects the trio’s unique place in the modern musical landscape. \n“My brother came to this band from the blues and gospel world\, and my history was allover the map with jazz and R&B\,” says Chris\, who first rose to fame with the pioneering trio Medeski Martin & Wood. “The idea for this group has always been to marry our backgrounds\, to imagine what might happen if Robert Johnson and Charles Mingus had started a band together.” \n‘Kingdom In My Mind’ follows The Wood Brothers’ most recent studio release\, 2018’s ‘One Drop Of Truth\,’ which hit #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and garnered the band their first GRAMMY nomination for Best Americana Album. NPR praised the record’s “unexpected changes and kaleidoscopic array of influences\,” while Uncut hailed its “virtuosic performances and subtly evocative lyrics\,” and Blurt proclaimed it “a career-defining album.” Tracks from the record racked up roughly 8 million streams on Spotify alone\, and the band took the album on the road for extensive tour dates in the US and Europe\, including their first-ever headline performance at Red Rocks\, two nights at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore (captured on their 2019 release\, ‘Live At The Fillmore’)\,and festival appearances everywhere from Bonnaroo to XPoNentia
URL:https://theark.qltddev.com/event/the-wood-brothers-230302/
LOCATION:The Majestic Theatre\, 4140 Woodward Ave.\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Margo Price
DESCRIPTION:Margo Price has something to say but nothing to prove. In just three remarkable solo albums\, the singer and songwriter has cemented herself as a force in American music and a generational talent. A deserving critical darling\, she has never shied away from the sounds that move her\, the pain that’s shaped her\, or the topics that tick her off\, like music industry double standards\, the gender wage gap\, or the plight of the American farmer. (In 2021\, she even joined the board of Farm Aid.) \nNow\, on her fourth full-length Strays\, a clear-eyed mission statement delivered in blistering rock and roll\, she’s taking on substance abuse\, self-image\, abortion rights\, and orgasms. Musically extravagant but lyrically laser focused\, the 10-song record tears into a broken world desperate for remedy. And who better to tell it? Price has done plenty of her own rebuilding—or as she shout sings in explanation on “Been to the Mountain\,” the set’s throat-ripping opener\, “I have been to the mountain and back alright”—and finds herself\, at long last\, free. Feral. Stray. \nSo\, while the last few years have seen remarkable moments of acclaim—a Best New Artist Grammy nomination\, Americana Music Honors\, a Saturday Night Live performance\, and just about every outlet and critics’ year-end Best Of list—Price is still hungry. “I still have a lot of drive inside of me\,” she says. “I have a chip on my shoulder. It feels like I still haven’t been able to fully realize all my dreams yet\, and that eats me up.” Just wait. \nWhen Tré Burt was signed to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records in 2019\, he was one of only two artists -including label mate Kelsey Waldon\, to join the label in the past 15 years. Caught It From The Rye\, Tré Burt’s debut album was re-released on Oh Boy in Jan 2020. The album showcases Burt’s literary songwriting and lo-fi\, rootsy aesthetic\, which he honed busking on the streets of San Francisco and traveling the world in search of inspiration. Like labelmate and songwriting hero John Prine\, Burt has a poet’s eye for detail\, a surgeon’s sense of narrative precision and a folk singer’s natural knack for a timeless melody. Caught It From The Ryeis an urgent missive from an important new voice in songwriting. \nFor a songwriter who thoughtfully documents what he sees in the world\, 2020\, while challenging\, was rich with inspiration. The year birthed the single\, Under The Devil’s Knee\, a song that continues the tradition of outspoken political folk songwritersof yore. It is an incredibly moving protest song tracing the lives of George Floyd\, Eric Garner\, and Breonna Taylor. Recorded remotely featuring Allison Russell\, Sunny War and Leyla McCalla. “Humanity feels like it’s slipping away from us\, as a country. Iwanted to reinstate the humanity of George Floyd\, Breonna Taylor\, Eric Garner and so many other brothers and sisters slain by police in the way I know how. I wanted to immortalize their dignity and make the work easy for future historians and remind the present that no matter what side of the aisle you’re on\, this is about actual pain and real human suffering caused by a system of governance that is morally bankrupt. This\, I felt was my duty as an American songwriter to do. Music is a powerful force\, especially when you put it through a protest song. It makes the fight more tangible. Reframes perspective. None of which entered my mind when writing this\, at all. That was out of anger. I wrote this song out of anger. They should all be alive.” -Tré Burt
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LOCATION:The Majestic Theatre\, 4140 Woodward Ave.\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Trampled By Turtles
DESCRIPTION:Trampled by Turtles are from Duluth\, Minnesota\, where frontman Dave Simonett initially formed the group as a side project in 2003. At the time\, Simonett had lost most of his music gear\, thanks to a group of enterprising car thieves who’d ransacked his vehicle while he played a show with his previous band. Left with nothing more than an acoustic guitar\, he began piecing together a new band\, this time taking inspiration from bluegrass\, folk\, and other genres that didn’t rely on amplification. Simonett hadn’t played any bluegrass music before\, and he filled his lineup with other newcomers to the genre\, including fiddler Ryan Young (who’d previously played drums in a speed metal act) and bassist Tim Saxhaug. Along with mandolinist Erik Berry and banjo player Dave Carroll\, the group began carving out a fast\, frenetic sound that owed as much to rock & roll as bluegrass. \nTrampled by Turtles released their first record\, Songs from a Ghost Town\, in 2004. In a genre steeped in tradition\, the album stood out for its contemporary sound\, essentially bridging the gap between the bandmates’ background in rock music and their new acoustic leanings. Blue Sky and the Devil (2005) and Trouble (2007) explored a similar sound\, but it wasn’t until 2008 and the band’s fourth release\, Duluth\, that Trampled by Turtles received recognition by the bluegrass community. Duluth peaked at number eight on the Billboard bluegrass chart and paved the way for a number of festival appearances. When Palomino arrived in 2010\, it was met with an even greater response\, debuting at the top of the bluegrass chart and remaining in the Top Ten for more than a year. Two years later\, their crossover appeal landed them at number 32 on the Billboard 200 pop charts upon the release of their sixth album\, Stars and Satellites. In addition to major bluegrass and folk festivals\, they began showing up at Coachella\, ACL Fest\, and Lollapalooza. The official concert album\, Live at First Avenue\, followed in 2013\, recorded at Minnesota’s most famous venue. A year later\, the band returned with the darker-toned Wild Animals\, which bettered its studio predecessor on the album charts\, reaching number 29 on Billboard. Countless tours with bands like Lord Huron\, Wilco\, Caamp\, Mt Joy and Deer Tick to name a few have followed. 2022 will see the release of the band’s latest body of work called Alpenglow which was produced by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. \n  \nFull Cord out of Grand Haven\, Michigan has been stealing the scene with an extraordinary song base that spans through originals\, newgrass\, traditional\, covers\, country\, Texas swing\, jazz and more. \nTheir infectious stage show and breadth of material pushed Full Cord through to a win of the 2022 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Competition in June and a nomination as the Momentum Band of the year at the upcoming International Bluegrass Music Awards.  With two shows never the same\, their followers in Michigan and beyond try to catch every show\, never knowing what teaser or new song will be in the set list.
URL:https://theark.qltddev.com/event/trampled-by-turtles-221204/
LOCATION:The Majestic Theatre\, 4140 Woodward Ave.\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48201\, United States
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