Robin Connell Trio, Jazz In The Park, Ah-Nab-Awen Park, 6:30 p.m.
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The festival is underwritten by DTE Energy Foundation.Ĭheck here for a full schedule and come back to later this week for a story about Blushing Monk. Also on the bill are Cuban jazz Detroiters Tumbao Bravo Ed Stone and the Flowmasters, also from Detroit guitarist Brian Lubeck, whose musical career was launched following a performance with Elliot Canadian electro jazz ensemble Four80East and the smooth jazz of Nate Harasim & NILS featuring Brandon Willis. Featured are a strong group of Grand Rapids-based performers: Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra, with well-known Grand Rapids vocalist Edye Evans Hyde, a jazz voice instructor at Hope College pianist Terry Lower, the West Michigan Jazz Society’s 2016 Musician Of The Year Organissimo, which this year released a new CD “B3atles ” and The Isaac Norris Project.
GRandJazzFest is, in itself, an education in the nuances of jazz. Also on the bill is Blushing Monk, a local “super-group” of young jazz musicians aiming for a modern sound. Saturday, is tenor saxophonist Richard Elliot, whose R&B and soul roots as a player with Tower Of Power inform his jazz presentations. The sixth annual GRandJazzFest headliner, 8 p.m. Where: Rosa Parks Circle, downtown Grand Rapids and includes Chicago dance band Sweet Diezel Jenkins, Saved By The 90s (hits from that decade), Hotel California (Eagles tribute), Bromoans (The Ramones tribute) and Wolfpack From Mars (David Bowie.). Events, such as yoga hosted by AM Yoga and children’s activities, sponsored by Downtown Market, and a force of food trucks start at 2 p.m. and WXMI channel 17, Tribute On The Grand supports Grand Rapids Whitewater, a non-profit with the goal of restoring the rapids to the Grand River. Where: Ah-Nab-Awen Park, downtown Grand Rapids and Cabildo at 8 p.m., with Peace to Mateo playing another set indoors at 11 p.m.) (Peace to Mateo plays at 1 p.m., Rick Chyme at 3 p.m., Lady Ace Boogie at 5:30 p.m.
Graydon’s Crossing will host The Jake & Jimmy Band, while Creston Brewery is using the event to celebrate its one-year anniversary with performances from Cabildo, Lady Ace Boogie, Rick Chyme and Peace To Mateo.
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Sponsored by the Creston Neighborhood Business Association, Best of Creston will feature children’s activities, yoga, an artists’ market plus a chance to participate in a giant paint-by-numbers project sponsored by art gallery Lions & Rabbits, a beer tent, a Moscow mule tent, and, of course, live music. It’s about time the people of Creston rise up to celebrate the growth and development of this North Side Grand Rapids neighborhood with “a great gathering of residents.” Where: Plainfield Avenue NE between Creston Brewing/Stonesthrow and Graydon’s Crossing