#Detroit Jazz Festival

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This is so special! Alice Coltrane’s restored harp played by the incredible Brandee Younger for the first time since “sometime in the 70s” (according to Ravi,) performing arrangements of Alice’s music with the Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra led by Ravi Coltrane.

If you don’t know Brandee, check her out. She is one of the hottest jazz harpists around.

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Jazz Festival '67 - Cobo Arena - Detroit

Nina Simone trio

Miles Davis Quintet

Cannonball Adderley Quintet

Herbie Mann Quintet

Dizzy Gillespie Quintet

Woody Herman Orchestra

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Flo Milli, Moodymann, J. Dilla Tribute & More At The Broad For Mickalene Thomas Exhibition

The Broad Art Museum in Los Angeles has announced a new season of programs for the Mickalene Thomas: All About Love special exhibition. The show opened on May 25, 2024, and will travel to the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and the Hayward Gallery, London. The show's title is taken from late feminist icon bell hooks and the exhibition is a celebration of Black feminist creativity, critiques, communal care, and thinking about new ways to love. Tickets are on sale now at thebroad.org. 

There will be Live music, workshops, comedy and a night of films by LGBTQIA+ directors. The Broad is making Black and queer voices prominent within the context of Thomas's exhibition which comprises 20 years of work. The concert series includes a night dedicated to J.Dilla led by Moodymann on July 19th. Rapper Flo Milli will do a show with singers Fousheé and METTE on July 20th. The shows are for all ages and the tickets include access to all galleries including Mickalene Thomas: All About Love.

Program Schedule 

Summer Concerts at The Broad: Dilla’s House Friday, July 19, 2024 | 8-11 pm Tickets: $65 Event Location: East West Bank Plaza at The Broad, First Floor Galleries It’s the summer of J Dilla in Los Angeles, and The Broad joins the festivities by honoring the revered artist who would have been 50 this year. On the heels of Dilla Jazz at The Ford, Dilla’s House at The Broad features artists who knew and worked with Dilla, who have been inspired by his pioneering methods, and who exemplify a spirit of cross-pollination that Dilla and other artists cultivated, including the dearly loved and recently departed Amp Fiddler. With a special focus on the uplifting and soulful side of house and dance music through the lens of Dilla’s legacy, the event will have guests dancing under the stars on the museum’s outdoor plaza. An ensemble performance helmed by Detroit’s Moodymann will feature fellow Motor City icons Dames Brown on vocals, Dez Andrés on the ones and twos and percussion, and Mark de Clive-Lowe on keys and beat machines. The evening will warm up fast with LA’s ownDJ Ashley Younniä; local music maven DJ Rashida will keep the energy levels up to close out the night. The evening will be hosted by The Yancey Boys AKA Illa J + Frank Nitt and is co-curated by Mahogani Music and Fusicology.

Summer Concerts at The Broad: Flo Milli + Fousheé + METTE Saturday, July 20, 2024 | 8-11 pm Tickets: $75 Event Location: East West Bank Plaza at The Broad

Continuing the celebration of Black creativity in music and art, The Broad and RCA Records partner on a special night featuring Flo Milli, Fousheé, and METTE. Tonight, with music we celebrate The Broad’s Special Exhibition: Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. The artists performing embody powerful, positive depictions of Black women that can also be found in the Mickalene Thomas’s exhibition.

Enjoy intimate yet electrifying live sets by these talented Black artists on the East West Bank Plaza, headlined by multi-platinum rapper Flo Milli. Hailing from Alabama, Flo rose from viral TikTok sensation in 2018 to garnering a #1 at Urban Radio and making Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for her hit “Never Lose Me,” which is a testimony to both her talent and tenacity. Flo dropped her latest album Fine Ho, Stay in March of this year and she’s currently a special guest on Gunna’s The Bittersweet Tour. Also on the bill for this special evening under the stars is Grammy-nominated songwriter Fousheé, whose genre-bending repertoire melds alt-rock and soul, and METTE, a boundless artist unrestricted by the need to align with one genre, whose creativity has already earned her an Ivor-Novello nomination for her song, “Mama’s Eyes.”

RCA shared this statement about partnering with The Broad: “We’re thrilled to work with The Broad on this special artist event in celebration of the incredible work of Mickalene Thomas. We believe deeply in the intersection of art and music and our participating artists, Flo Milli, Fousheé and METTE are true creatives, visionaries, songwriters, and performers. We look forward to a continued partnership with the fantastic team of curators at The Broad as we work together to bring art & music to life in new and innovative ways.”

For more information regarding programming and L.A. Intersections, please visit TheBroad.org

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Soul Power Kinshasa Zaire 1974 Muhammad Ali ,James Brown,Bill Withers, and a host of other international stars.

This is a historical document - because there will never be another Rumble in the Jungle.. especially with this type of stage presence.  Imagine, Zaire.. Man

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/12/soul-power-james-brown

Leon Gast's brilliant fly-on-the-wall film When We Were Kings won the Oscar for best documentary when it was released in 1997. It told the surreal story of the "rumble in the jungle", the extraordinary heavyweight fight in Zaire in 1974 when Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman to win back his world title against the odds.

The fight was the main event, but a three-day music festival, called Zaire '74, also took place in Kinshasa, featuring some of the heavyweights of American soul, African pop and Latin-American jazz. It was headlined by the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown, who was brought to Africa, alongside the Detroit Spinners, Bill Withers and BB King, by the festival organisers, Stewart Levine and South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Also in town for the concert were Stokely Carmichael, the black power figurehead, and Don King, the motor-mouth boxing promoter.

Soul Power tells the story of the festival and its myriad characters in an impressionistic swirl of images and music. It begins with the organisers frantically trying to build a stage, install a PA and hold it all together as the musicians start arriving. When James Brown and Ali enter the same dressing room, there is barely enough oxygen left even for Don King. The jive talk is non-stop, but it's the music that mesmerises - and the audience's wild reaction to it. BB King wows the crowd with the restrained power of The Thrill is Gone, Bill Withers bravely slows things down with the brooding ballad Hope She'll be Happier, and Brown climaxes with - what else? - Say it Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud, which, had there been a roof on the stadium, would have taken it clean off.

The vibe is celebratory throughout despite the hassles, the various besuited business opportunists and the great big elephant in the room - President Mobutu and his years of corruption and misrule. Given that it is 35 years since the concert and fight took place, one might have hoped from some retrospective wisdom from some of the surviving performers. That one quibble aside, Soul Power is a riveting glimpse of another time and another place, when things were more radical and more gloriously ramshackle. Where was Fela Kuti, though?

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Detroit! Ate at a Brazilian steak house & stumbled onto a free jazz festival, loads of amazing music & art!! We saw Canada for the first time too.

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transcript of sufjan steven's writing at the back of the michigan vinyl (transcribed by u/cynicalis):

Welcome to Michigan! The waterways and waterfalls! Soo locks, state parks and Walloon Lake. The apple farms and cherry blossoms and two striking peninsulas bordering four Great Lakes! The sandy shore-lines, the spring-fed rivers, the Mackinac Bridge! Blissfest! Henry Ford! Tulip Time! Motown music! Bring a set of clubs, try your swing at Harbour Point. Wear the tan pants with pockets on the hips. Carry the things in them that matter most: the paper matchbook from Petoskey, your sister's postcards from Marquette, a turkey feather, a rabbit's foot. Sip lemonade and listen for the biplanes overhead making figure eights in the sky. Carry a canoe around St. Mary's Rapid, like the Ojibway. Overhead, sixteen geese cast their shadow V over the straits of Mackinac. There is the smell of leaves burning, wood stoves, cigar smoke and compost.

The people are generous, warm, outgoing, helpful, industrious, always willing to lend a hand. They give clear directions to the interstate. Have you been to Frankenmuth? Christmas in July? The Renaissance Festival? The Renaissance Center? Have you harvested baby's breath in abandoned lots? Have you been on a three-wheeler, a snowmobile, a ferry to Beaver Island? There are rainbow trout and catfish, beaver dams, curious raccoons, and mourning doves moaning overhead, balanced on power lines.

Follow 1-75 downstate to Detroit. Listen for the lonely echo in Tiger Stadium, traffic on Grand River Avenue, the empty aisles of Hudson's, long abandoned. Look around and spend the day in mourning. Oh Detroit, you complicated old man, nearly dead, with your shoulders arched over the river, polluted and gray, the threads of your shirt worn down with disease and car exhaust. You have grown thin with industry, car factories, riots, raids, transportation nightmares. You have eaten Coney dogs with relish and onion. You have built magnificent buildings only to burn them. Your children's children have squandered their dowry. They strut on the streets. They throw trash in the trees and hang their laundry on ropes fit for hanging.

Oh Detroit, what have you done to man, his wife and kids, his cousins, his music, his hairstyles, his shoes with white tips, his pleated pants, his elbow slung out the car window, his basketball courts, his officers downtown, his nightclubs, his shirtsleeve tucked over a pack of cigarettes, his imagination, his industry, his sense of humor, his home? Oh Detroit, what have you done to city hall, the public trains, the workers' union, the Eastern Market, Boblo Island, the Ambassador Bridge? Where have you put your riches, where have you hid your treasure? Your concrete over-passes, your avenues as wide as rivers, your suburbs bloated with brick homes and strip malls and discount liquor stores and resale shops. When you are dead and gone, who will care for your children's children. They have run wild with the bastard boys around the streets, reckless car rides downtown, rigorous dancing, drug taking, knife-stabbing, pillow-stuffing, tail wagging restlessness. They have been drunk with this for years. They have been out of their minds. They have been left with nothing.

Even still, here and now, there is a renaissance of hope. The streets will take up horns and play free jazz, the buses will clang their bells in time, the buildings once burned out will be home to the homeless. Living rooms will be filled with furniture. Broken families will reconcile. Women will be honored with lilac wreaths. Men will begin to lower their voices. Children will fill playgrounds and parks with the sounds of their playing.

Who can call us father, or who can call us son? If we have regarded ourselves abandoned by whatever thing (a person, a lover, a parent, a false prophet, ourselves), then we have lost touch with the great family, ourselves, all of us together, in this great place called Michigan. Who is your neighbor? He is your brother. Who is that stranger? She is your mother. The man downstairs hammering on the wall, the woman blow-drying her hair in the bathroom-these people are your family. Have you lost your mother to death? Have you lost your father to disease, to war, alcohol, drugs, a car accident? Nothing can replace them. They have been made known completely in death, to whatever supernatural landscape (who can say for sure?). Until then, it is our hard task to welcome the widows, the children, the orphans, the fatherless into our family. What little effort it takes -- a friendly nod at the stranger on the street, giving change to the man who asks, saying hello or goodbye, opening doors, keeping our mouths shut. In the small things, the day-to-day gestures, the normal business of the day, we do the great work of the kingdom, which is to welcome each unlikely individual into the fold, one person at a time.

We do these things, not because we are Michiganders, but because we have been called to participate in the world’s creation from the very beginning. Making music. Baking cakes. Sewing curtains. These things mean something greater: that we have been known from the very start. Our eye color, our hairline, our jawline, the shape of our big toe, the tone of our voice. These things have been designed from the very beginning. What kind of music we listen to. The sort of skirt that looks good. The baseball cap, the tennis shoe, the orange bandana. We have been made to find these things for ourselves and take them in as ours, like adopted children: habits, hobbies, idiosyncrasies, gestures, moods, tastes, tendencies, worries. They have been put in us for good measure.

Perhaps we don’t like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size, our dimples, our knuckles too big, our eating habits, our disposition. We have disclosed these things in secret, likes and dislikes, behind doors with locks, our lonely rooms, our messy desks, our empty hearts, our sudden bursts of energy, our sudden bouts of depression. Don’t worry. Put away your mirrors and your beauty magazines and your books on tape. There is someone right here who knows you more than you do, who is making room on the couch, who is fixing a meal, who is putting on your favorite record, who is listening intently to what you have to say, who is standing there with you, face to face, hand to hand, eye to eye, mouth to mouth. There is no space left uncovered. This is where you belong.

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Award-winning artist and Detroit native Alise King, also known as The Soulful D.I.V.A., began her singing journey at the age of 10. 

She is known around Detroit and beyond for her powerful voice and beautiful spirit. 

The "D.I.V.A" (Divine Instrument Vocalizing her Ability) has opened up for artists such as Aretha Franklin, Bobby Brown, Kelly Price and Dru Hill, to name a few. She has also performed at many events, including the Smooth Jazz Festival at Hart Plaza and Detroit's Masonic Temple. 

Some of King's accolades include the 2015 Female R&B Artist by the Detroit Black Music Awards, 2016 Best Female Soul Artist by the Detroit Honor Awards and 2016 Best Local Artist by the Best in Black Awards.

King will perform a tribute to legendary Stevie Wonder at The Kick Off To The Health, Love & Music Festival on July 22. 

She joined CBS News Detroit for a live performance on Thursday, June 22. Watch the full performance here:  Celebrating Black Music Month: Alise King 05:12

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Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, Leo Genovese – Someplace Called “Where” (Live)

From the album “Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival”.

On Sept. 3, 2017, attendees of the Detroit Jazz Festival witnessed a very special, and unique, one-time event. A set by a multi-generational jazz super group. A masterful quartet comprised of Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, ssperanza spalding, and Leo Genovese.

Wayne Shorter (sax) Terri Lyne Carrington (drums) Esperanza Spalding (bass, vocals) Leo Genovese (piano) Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 11, 2022

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Part 2 - Go West: African American Lives and Westward Migration Performance from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

Monday, August 12, 2024 | 8:00 p.m. Southeast Community Center, Alex Pitcher Pavilion and Amphitheater, 1550 Evans Ave, San Francisco

Join artist Trina Michelle Robinson for an artist talk (pt 1) followed by a special performance (pt 2) featuring her new video work Go West!

Projected onto the exterior of the Southeast Community Center’s amphitheater and accompanied by musician Christopher Lowell Clarke and dancer Audrey Johnson, Go West looks at the migration of Black people to California from not only the South, but also the East coast and Midwest. Using the large-scale projection as a metaphor for taking up space, this piece celebrates the drive felt by so many to travel far from home in search of new opportunities, adventure, and also to simply rest.

A conversation between Robinson and author, curator, and educator Jacqueline Francis will take place inside the Alex Pitcher Pavilion prior to the performance. Refreshments provided.

This program is organized in conjunction with Praxis of Local Knowledge, a group exhibition featuring four artists, including Robinson, creating work that explores their ancestral stories and grappling with these memories today. The exhibition is on view through Saturday, August 17, 2024 at the San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery.

Artist Bios Trina Michelle Robinson is a San Francisco based visual artist. Her work has been shown at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia, the San Francisco Art Commission Main Gallery, Catharine Clark Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, and New York’s Wassaic Project and is currently included in the prestigious triennial Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She had a solo exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), a Smithsonian Affiliate, as part of their Emerging Artist Program 2022-23. Robinson is a 2024 SFMOMA SECA Award finalist and her print series Ghost Prints of Loss is included in the book Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? published in 2023 by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. She previously worked in print and digital media in production at companies such as The New York Times T Magazine, Vanity Fair and Slack before receiving her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in 2022.

As a storyteller, she traveled the country telling the story of exploring her ancestry with The Moth Mainstage at Lincoln Center in New York, in addition to touring with them on stages in San Francisco, Portland, OR, Omaha, NE and Westport, CT. Her first story aired on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour in 2019 and her second in earlier this year. trinamrobinson.com

Christopher Lowell Clarke is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Christopher's professional performance experience includes playing with the East Coast Jazz Festival Fish Middleton Rising Star Band in Baltimore, Carnival Cruise Lines Main Orchestra and Jazz Chair, the Johnny Nocturne Band at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Orvieto, Italy, his own quintet at the Fillmore Jazz Festival in San Francisco, and the Contemporary Music Orchestra at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He has also performed with Eddie Marshall and Holy Mischief, the Marcus Shelby Big Band, the Howard Wiley Quintet, and the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra. Christopher currently serves as a teaching artist for SF Jazz/Oakland Public Conservatory After School Jazz Program, Oakland Public Conservatory, SF Jazz’s Jazz In Session Program, Oaktown Jazz Workshop, and the Lafayette Summer Jazz Camp. Christopher has released several albums, including The Swooper (Lifeforce Records 1018) and multiple albums with bassist Dewayne Oakley on Naki-Do Records. christopherlowellclarke.com

Audrey Johnson is a queer, Black, mixed-race dance artist and plant worker with roots from Detroit, Michigan/Anishinaabe land, currently based in Oakland, CA/Ohlone land. Audrey’s performance, choreographic, and teaching work experiments with improvisation and embodied time travel, in refusal of colonized time and space. She has shown performance work in the San Francisco Bay Area and Detroit, and has performed in the companies of artists Gerald Casel, Jennifer Harge, Biba Bell, Detour Dance, Stephanie Hewett, among others. As an educator, she has taught dance as embodied practice at community spaces, dance centers, and youth programs, and is a current faculty member with the LINES BFA Program through Dominican University. She holds a BFA in Dance from Wayne State University and was a co-founder of Collective Sweat Detroit. audreyjohnson.space

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August 2024 Events at the Jazz Gallery

Create, Present, Experience

On Stage

August 3

Mike Baggetta (mssv) & Peter DiStefano (Porno for Pyros) PunkJazz Tour + Swim Two Birds. Experimental/jazz/free improv. 7:00-10:0pm. $15 cover.

August 8

Kenji Lee's Fortune Teller Trio (Detroit, MI) + Rick Ollman/Jane Buttars. Jazz/free improv. 8:00pm - 10:00pm. $10 cover.

August 9

Shun Millions + *Aya + Fokused + Shadi. Hip hop/R&B/pop. 7:30pm - 10:00pm. $10 cover.

August 13

Hans Young Binter (NYC) + Andy Armstrong (Rennes, France) + Cathedral Becomes Tomb + Hiking Journal. Free improv/experimental/folk. 7:00pm - 10:00pm. $10 cover.

August 17

Center Street Daze Stage (on Weil and Center)

Big Style Brass Band, Trace Ellington and Friends, and Trove with Special Guest Jason Fabus (free)

(in the Gallery after the Center Street Daze festival)

Kenan Serenbetz (Minneapolis, MN) + DPCD (Chicago, IL) + Shawn Alan Hurd + Kati Katchever. Folk/experimental. 8:00-10:00pm. $10 cover.

August 23

Wavefiler + Blake Zweig + Vectors of Resonant Prescients + Cassini Echoes. Experimental/folk. 7:00pm - 10:00pm. 5-10$ sliding scale cover.

August 31

Stier/Sundstrom Double Quartet (Madison). Free jazz. 7:00pm-10:00pm. $10 cover.

Free Improvisation Sessions - Every Saturday, 10 AM - noon

Genisx Jam - Every Tuesday, 7:30 - 10 PM.

Jazz Gallery Members Show - Artwork Drop-off

Friday/Saturday, Aug. 9th and 10th 12-5pm.

Become a member online or in person at time of drop-off!

August 17

Center Street Daze Festival. JGCA Music Stage, Rummage Sale, Children’s Activity Area, and Open Gallery.

July 26th 7pm-July 27th

Gallery Open 24 hours for Riverwest 24!

As a RW24 Checkpoint Friday evening riders and passers by are encouraged to stop in and see the exhibition that is RW24 themed with memorabilia and artworks inspired by RW24.

On View

July 20 - August 17th, 2024

Main Gallery. RW24 Exhibition: Celebrating the Celebration of Riverwest24.

Opening reception: Friday, July 26, 7pm - 10 pm. The gallery will be open 24 hours during RW24 event.

July 20 - August 17th, 2024

Small Wall. Under Observation. Solo exhibition by Geornica Daniels.

Opening reception: Friday, July 26th, 7-10pm.

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August 24 - October 12, 2024

Main Gallery. Annual Members Show. Group show featuring artworks created by Jazz Gallery Members (anyone can join!).

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 24th, 3-5pm

August 24 - October 12, 2024

Small Wall. Artworks by Emerging Artist Maya Tempel.

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 24th, 3-5pm

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Holidays 7.15

Holidays

Arctic Sea Ice Day

Battle of Grumwald Day (Lithuania, Poland)

Be A Dork Day

Cigarette Warning Day

Civic Day (Colombia)

Day of Democracy and Freedoms (Turkey)

Day of Ukrainian Peacekeepers

Day of Visibility for Non-Monogamy

Developmental Disability Professionals Day

Disability Awareness Day (UK)

Dog Days end

Elderly Men Day (a.k.a. Unimwane Day; Kiribati)

Festival of Santa Rosalia (Sicily)

Garlic Day (French Republic)

Gorestnici begins (Fire Festival; Bulgaria; until 17th)

Hakata Gion Yamagasa (Fukuoka, Japan)

Hapshire Day (UK)

Hold a Rat Day

Hundadagar (Dog Days of Summer; Iceland) [Thru August 23]

I Love Horses Day

International Stamp Out Spiking Day

John Fogerty Day (El Cerrito, California)

Manitoba Province Day (Canada; 1870)

Manu’s Cession Day (American Samoa)

National Apprenticeship Day (India)

National Captain’s Hill Day

National Clean Beauty Day

National Donna Day

National Dork Day

National Give Something Away Day

National Health Insurance Act Day (UK)

National Leiomyosarcoma Awareness Day

National Pet Fire Safety Day

No-Hitter Day

PicantePit Pitch Day

Plastic Surgery Day

Respect Canada Day

St. Swithin's Day (UK)

715 Day

Social Media Giving Day

Sultan’s Day (Brunei)

World Firefox Day

World Youth Skills Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Black Currant Day

Gummi Worm Day

Margarine Day

National Tapioca Pudding Day

Orange Chicken Day

Independence & Related Days

Chowolia (Declared; 2020) [dissolved; 2021]

Georgia (Readmitted to the Union; 1870)

Island of Vancouver (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Montenegro (Statehood Day)

Permaria (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

3rd Monday in July

Global Hug For Your Kids Day [3rd Monday]

Guelaguetza (a.k.a. Festival of Lunes del Cerro; Oaxaca, Mexico) [Monday after 16th]

Marine Day (Japan) [3rd Monday]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

Munoz-Rivera Day (f.k.a. Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera; Puerto Rico Day) [3rd Monday]

National Get Out of the Doghouse Day [3rd Monday]

National Prosecco Week begins [3rd Monday]

Perseids Meteor Shower begins [Varies; thru 8.24]

President’s Day (Botswana) [3rd Monday]

Umi No Hi (Ocean Day/Marine Day; Japan) [3rd Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 15 (3rd Week of July)

Coral Reef Awareness Week (thru 7.21)

Rabbit Week (thru 7.21)

Festivals Beginning July 15, 2024

Clayton Restaurant Week (Clayton, Missouri) [thru 7.21]

Concert of Colors (Detroit, Michigan) [thru 7.21]

Dantz Festival (San Sebastián, Spain) [thru 7.20]

Festival Jazz à Sete (Sete, France) [thru 7.21]

Galway International Arts Festival (Galway, Ireland) [thru 7.28]

Moldejazz (Molde, Norway) [thru 7.20]

Republican National Convention (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) [thru 7.18]

Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) [thru 7.21]

Feast Days

Abhai (Syriac Orthodox)

Anne-Marie Javouhey (Christian; Saint)

Athanasius of Naples (Christian; Saint)

Barhadbesaba (Christian; Martyr)

Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden (Christian; Saint)

Bonaventure (Christian; Saint)

Bon Festival (Kantō region, Japan)

Clive Cussler (Writerism)

Confuflux (Discordian)

David of Munktorp (Christian; Saint)

Day of Rauni (Finnish Mother Goddess)

Day of Set (Ancient Egypt; Everyday Wicca)

Day of the Baptism of Rus’ (Ukraine)

Dispersion of the Apostles (No longer officially celebrated by the Catholic Church)

Donald of Ogilvy (Christian; Saint)

Edith of Polesworth (Christian; Saint)

Edith of Wilton (Christian; Saint)

Ernie Barnes (Artology)

Feast of Rowana (patron of secret knowledge of the runes; Druid/Flemish)

Ferret Down Your Trousers Day (Pastafarian)

Festival of Castor and Pollux (Ancient Rome)

Festival of the Dead (Honoring Ti-Tsang, Ruler of the Dark Underworld; Ancient China)

Forgetful Jones & Buster (Muppetism)

The Gray Man (Film; 2022)

Guido Crepax (Artology)

Helpful Hilma (Muppetism)

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (Christian; Saint)

Ides of July (Ancient Rome)

Iris Murdoch (Writerism)

Jacques Derrida (Writerism)

James of Nisibis (Christian; Saint)

Jan Cossiers (Artology)

St. Louis (Positivist; Saint)

Neil Gaiman Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Petal-Hopping for Beginners (Shamanism)

Plechelm (Christian; Saint)

Pompilio Pirrotti (Christian; Saint)

Queen Maeve of Connacht (Celtic Book of Days)

Quriaqos and Julietta (Christian; Saint)

Rembrandt van Rijn (Artology)

Richard Russo (Writerism)

Rosalia (Christian; Saint) [Palermo, Sicily]

Solstitium X (Pagan)

Swithin (a..k.a. Swithun; Christian; Saint)

Vladimir the Great of Kiev (Eastern Orthodox; Catholic Church)

Whamo the Rental Magician (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [27 of 53]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [40 of 71]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [33 of 60]

Premieres

Belle (Anime Film; 2021)

Bullet Train (Film; 2022)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Film; 2005)

Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months, by Maurice Sendak (Children’s Book; 1962)

Creedence Clearwater Revival, by Creedence Clearwater Revival (Album; 1968)

Dangerous Dan McFoo (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

Die Hard (Film; 1988)

The Dogs of War, by Frederick Forsyth (Novel; 1974)

A Fish Called Wanda (Film; 1988)

Gangnam Style, by Psy (Song; 20912)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Film; 1953)

Ghostbusters (Film; 2016)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (MGM Cartoon; 1939)

The Gray Man (Film; 2022)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 (US Film; 2011) [#8]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (US Film; 2009) [#6]

A Hole in the Head (Film; 1959)

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, recorded by Jimmy Boyd (Song; 1952)

The Jeep (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)

The Last of the Masters, by Philip K. Dick (Short Story; 1954)

The Late Batsby (WB Cartoon; 2018)

Little Big Man, by Thomas Berger (Novel; 1964)

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (Animated Film; 1989)

Mandatory Fun, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2014)

The Man from Monterey (Film; 1933)

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Animated Film; 2022)

The Past Through Tomorrow, by Robert A. Heinlein (Short Stories; 1967)

Pirates of Penzance, starring Linda Ronstadt (Musical Play in Central Park, NY; 1980)

Porky’s Picnic (WB LT Cartoon; 1939)

The Rebel Without Claws (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)

Staying Alive (Film; 1983)

Stranger Things (TV Series; 2016)

There’s Something ABout Mary (Film; 1998)

True Lies (1994)

Twitter (Social Media App; 2006)

Wedding Crashers (Film; 2005)

Whisper of the Heart (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 1995)

Winnie the Pooh (Animated Film; 2011)

The Witch’s Cat (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1948)

Zelig (Film; 1983)

Today’s Name Days

Balduin, Bonaventura, Egon, Waldemar (Austria)

Vlada, Vladena, Vladimir (Bulgaria)

Bonaventura, Bono, Dobriša, Vlado (Croatia)

Jindřich (Czech Republic)

Apostlenes Deling (Denmark)

Ragne, Raina, Raine, Raini (Estonia)

Rauna, Rauni (Finland)

Donald, Vladimir (France)

Björn, Egon, Jakob (Germany)

Ioulitta, Kerykos, Kirykos (Greece)

Henrik, Roland (Hungary)

Bonaventura, Giacobbe, Vladimiro (Italy)

Egija, Egmonts, Egons, Rūta (Latvia)

Gerimantė, Mantas, Rozalija, Rožė (Lithuania)

Oddmund, Oddrun (Norway)

Daniel, Dawid, Dawida, Egon, Henryk, Iga, Ignacja, Ignacy, Lubomysł, Niecisław, Włodzimierz, Żegota (Poland)

Angelina (Russia)

Henrich (Slovakia)

Buenaventura (Spain)

Ragnhild, Ragnvald (Sweden)

Volodymyr, Volodymyra (Ukraine)

Baldwin, Don, Donald, Donalda, Donna, Donnell, Donnie, Dunn, Dunne, Uriel (USA)

Don, Donald, Donalda, Donaldo, Donaldson, Donita, Donell, Donn, Donnell, Donnie, Donny, Kona, MacDonald, McDonald (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 197 of 2024; 169 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of Week 29 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 10 (Geng-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 9 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 8 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 17 Red; Threesday [17 of 30]

Julian: 2 July 2024

Moon: 67%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 28 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Louis]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 26 of 94)

Week: 3rd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 25 of 31)

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Holidays 7.15

Holidays

Arctic Sea Ice Day

Battle of Grumwald Day (Lithuania, Poland)

Be A Dork Day

Cigarette Warning Day

Civic Day (Colombia)

Day of Democracy and Freedoms (Turkey)

Day of Ukrainian Peacekeepers

Day of Visibility for Non-Monogamy

Developmental Disability Professionals Day

Disability Awareness Day (UK)

Dog Days end

Elderly Men Day (a.k.a. Unimwane Day; Kiribati)

Festival of Santa Rosalia (Sicily)

Garlic Day (French Republic)

Gorestnici begins (Fire Festival; Bulgaria; until 17th)

Hakata Gion Yamagasa (Fukuoka, Japan)

Hapshire Day (UK)

Hold a Rat Day

Hundadagar (Dog Days of Summer; Iceland) [Thru August 23]

I Love Horses Day

International Stamp Out Spiking Day

John Fogerty Day (El Cerrito, California)

Manitoba Province Day (Canada; 1870)

Manu’s Cession Day (American Samoa)

National Apprenticeship Day (India)

National Captain’s Hill Day

National Clean Beauty Day

National Donna Day

National Dork Day

National Give Something Away Day

National Health Insurance Act Day (UK)

National Leiomyosarcoma Awareness Day

National Pet Fire Safety Day

No-Hitter Day

PicantePit Pitch Day

Plastic Surgery Day

Respect Canada Day

St. Swithin's Day (UK)

715 Day

Social Media Giving Day

Sultan’s Day (Brunei)

World Firefox Day

World Youth Skills Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Black Currant Day

Gummi Worm Day

Margarine Day

National Tapioca Pudding Day

Orange Chicken Day

Independence & Related Days

Chowolia (Declared; 2020) [dissolved; 2021]

Georgia (Readmitted to the Union; 1870)

Island of Vancouver (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Montenegro (Statehood Day)

Permaria (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

3rd Monday in July

Global Hug For Your Kids Day [3rd Monday]

Guelaguetza (a.k.a. Festival of Lunes del Cerro; Oaxaca, Mexico) [Monday after 16th]

Marine Day (Japan) [3rd Monday]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

Munoz-Rivera Day (f.k.a. Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera; Puerto Rico Day) [3rd Monday]

National Get Out of the Doghouse Day [3rd Monday]

National Prosecco Week begins [3rd Monday]

Perseids Meteor Shower begins [Varies; thru 8.24]

President’s Day (Botswana) [3rd Monday]

Umi No Hi (Ocean Day/Marine Day; Japan) [3rd Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 15 (3rd Week of July)

Coral Reef Awareness Week (thru 7.21)

Rabbit Week (thru 7.21)

Festivals Beginning July 15, 2024

Clayton Restaurant Week (Clayton, Missouri) [thru 7.21]

Concert of Colors (Detroit, Michigan) [thru 7.21]

Dantz Festival (San Sebastián, Spain) [thru 7.20]

Festival Jazz à Sete (Sete, France) [thru 7.21]

Galway International Arts Festival (Galway, Ireland) [thru 7.28]

Moldejazz (Molde, Norway) [thru 7.20]

Republican National Convention (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) [thru 7.18]

Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) [thru 7.21]

Feast Days

Abhai (Syriac Orthodox)

Anne-Marie Javouhey (Christian; Saint)

Athanasius of Naples (Christian; Saint)

Barhadbesaba (Christian; Martyr)

Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden (Christian; Saint)

Bonaventure (Christian; Saint)

Bon Festival (Kantō region, Japan)

Clive Cussler (Writerism)

Confuflux (Discordian)

David of Munktorp (Christian; Saint)

Day of Rauni (Finnish Mother Goddess)

Day of Set (Ancient Egypt; Everyday Wicca)

Day of the Baptism of Rus’ (Ukraine)

Dispersion of the Apostles (No longer officially celebrated by the Catholic Church)

Donald of Ogilvy (Christian; Saint)

Edith of Polesworth (Christian; Saint)

Edith of Wilton (Christian; Saint)

Ernie Barnes (Artology)

Feast of Rowana (patron of secret knowledge of the runes; Druid/Flemish)

Ferret Down Your Trousers Day (Pastafarian)

Festival of Castor and Pollux (Ancient Rome)

Festival of the Dead (Honoring Ti-Tsang, Ruler of the Dark Underworld; Ancient China)

Forgetful Jones & Buster (Muppetism)

The Gray Man (Film; 2022)

Guido Crepax (Artology)

Helpful Hilma (Muppetism)

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (Christian; Saint)

Ides of July (Ancient Rome)

Iris Murdoch (Writerism)

Jacques Derrida (Writerism)

James of Nisibis (Christian; Saint)

Jan Cossiers (Artology)

St. Louis (Positivist; Saint)

Neil Gaiman Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Petal-Hopping for Beginners (Shamanism)

Plechelm (Christian; Saint)

Pompilio Pirrotti (Christian; Saint)

Queen Maeve of Connacht (Celtic Book of Days)

Quriaqos and Julietta (Christian; Saint)

Rembrandt van Rijn (Artology)

Richard Russo (Writerism)

Rosalia (Christian; Saint) [Palermo, Sicily]

Solstitium X (Pagan)

Swithin (a..k.a. Swithun; Christian; Saint)

Vladimir the Great of Kiev (Eastern Orthodox; Catholic Church)

Whamo the Rental Magician (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [27 of 53]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [40 of 71]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [33 of 60]

Premieres

Belle (Anime Film; 2021)

Bullet Train (Film; 2022)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Film; 2005)

Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months, by Maurice Sendak (Children’s Book; 1962)

Creedence Clearwater Revival, by Creedence Clearwater Revival (Album; 1968)

Dangerous Dan McFoo (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

Die Hard (Film; 1988)

The Dogs of War, by Frederick Forsyth (Novel; 1974)

A Fish Called Wanda (Film; 1988)

Gangnam Style, by Psy (Song; 20912)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Film; 1953)

Ghostbusters (Film; 2016)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (MGM Cartoon; 1939)

The Gray Man (Film; 2022)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 (US Film; 2011) [#8]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (US Film; 2009) [#6]

A Hole in the Head (Film; 1959)

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, recorded by Jimmy Boyd (Song; 1952)

The Jeep (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)

The Last of the Masters, by Philip K. Dick (Short Story; 1954)

The Late Batsby (WB Cartoon; 2018)

Little Big Man, by Thomas Berger (Novel; 1964)

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (Animated Film; 1989)

Mandatory Fun, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2014)

The Man from Monterey (Film; 1933)

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Animated Film; 2022)

The Past Through Tomorrow, by Robert A. Heinlein (Short Stories; 1967)

Pirates of Penzance, starring Linda Ronstadt (Musical Play in Central Park, NY; 1980)

Porky’s Picnic (WB LT Cartoon; 1939)

The Rebel Without Claws (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)

Staying Alive (Film; 1983)

Stranger Things (TV Series; 2016)

There’s Something ABout Mary (Film; 1998)

True Lies (1994)

Twitter (Social Media App; 2006)

Wedding Crashers (Film; 2005)

Whisper of the Heart (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 1995)

Winnie the Pooh (Animated Film; 2011)

The Witch’s Cat (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1948)

Zelig (Film; 1983)

Today’s Name Days

Balduin, Bonaventura, Egon, Waldemar (Austria)

Vlada, Vladena, Vladimir (Bulgaria)

Bonaventura, Bono, Dobriša, Vlado (Croatia)

Jindřich (Czech Republic)

Apostlenes Deling (Denmark)

Ragne, Raina, Raine, Raini (Estonia)

Rauna, Rauni (Finland)

Donald, Vladimir (France)

Björn, Egon, Jakob (Germany)

Ioulitta, Kerykos, Kirykos (Greece)

Henrik, Roland (Hungary)

Bonaventura, Giacobbe, Vladimiro (Italy)

Egija, Egmonts, Egons, Rūta (Latvia)

Gerimantė, Mantas, Rozalija, Rožė (Lithuania)

Oddmund, Oddrun (Norway)

Daniel, Dawid, Dawida, Egon, Henryk, Iga, Ignacja, Ignacy, Lubomysł, Niecisław, Włodzimierz, Żegota (Poland)

Angelina (Russia)

Henrich (Slovakia)

Buenaventura (Spain)

Ragnhild, Ragnvald (Sweden)

Volodymyr, Volodymyra (Ukraine)

Baldwin, Don, Donald, Donalda, Donna, Donnell, Donnie, Dunn, Dunne, Uriel (USA)

Don, Donald, Donalda, Donaldo, Donaldson, Donita, Donell, Donn, Donnell, Donnie, Donny, Kona, MacDonald, McDonald (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 197 of 2024; 169 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of Week 29 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 10 (Geng-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 9 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 8 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 17 Red; Threesday [17 of 30]

Julian: 2 July 2024

Moon: 67%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 28 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Louis]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 26 of 94)

Week: 3rd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 25 of 31)

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1957 - 2nd Annual Festival: Jazz for Moderns - Masonic Temple - Detroit

George Shearing Sextet

Gerry Mulligan Quintet

Chico Hamilton Quintet

Miles Davis Quintet

Australian Jazz Quintet

Helen Merrill

Lee Konitz

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Nicci Gilbert July 8, 1970) is a R&B singer. She is known for being the lead vocalist of female R&B girl group Brownstone who rose to fame in the mid 1990s known for their 1995 hit single “If You Love Me”, which was nominated for a Best R&B Performance Grammy Award. “Grapevyne” and “Pass the Lovin’” brought them some success, as well as their rendition of “I Can’t Tell You Why”.

Following the disbandment of the group in 1997, saw her theatrical film debut in Woo. She returned to the music industry after a five-year hiatus as a solo singer and released her debut album Grown Folks Music.

In 2012, she starred as a cast member and executive producer in R&B Divas: Atlanta. She was featured in 2 seasons of the show. She performed with the group at events such as Essence Music Festival.

She was born in Detroit. Her mother Helene was a jazz singer. Her mom did a lot to encourage her interest in music, and when she was in high school, she performed Madonna’s “Crazy for You” in a talent show.

She studied music and drama at Eastern Michigan University. She ended up dropping out after two years so that she could move to Los Angeles with a friend and be closer to the music industry. She appeared in various talent shows while paying her bills with non-musical “day gigs” (including a job at Taco Bell). She formed Brownstone’s original lineup with Monica Doby and Charmayne Maxwell. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Annual Events and Festivals in Canton, Michigan.

Canton, Michigan, a vibrant suburban community located between Detroit and Ann Arbor, is renowned for its diverse cultural events and festivals. These annual celebrations highlight the town's commitment to fostering community spirit and offering residents and visitors a wide range of activities. Here’s an overview of some of the most anticipated annual events and festivals in Canton.

Liberty Fest

Liberty Fest is one of Michigan, Canton’s most celebrated events, taking place every June at Heritage Park. This three-day festival attracts thousands of attendees and features a variety of entertainment options for all ages. Highlights include a carnival with thrilling rides, live music performances from local and regional bands, and a marketplace showcasing local artisans and vendors. The festival’s grand finale is a spectacular fireworks display that lights up the night sky, drawing families and friends together in celebration of summer and community.

Summer Concert Series

Canton’s Summer Concert Series is another staple event, running from June through August. Held at the scenic Heritage Park Amphitheater, these free concerts provide a perfect way to enjoy warm summer evenings. The series features a diverse lineup of musical acts, ranging from rock and pop to jazz and classical. Families often bring blankets and picnic baskets, creating a relaxed, communal atmosphere. The Summer Concert Series not only supports local musicians but also strengthens community bonds through shared cultural experiences.

Canton Farmers Market

Operating from May through October, the Canton Farmers Market is a weekly event that showcases the best of local agriculture and artisanal products. Held every Sunday at Preservation Park, the market features fresh produce, baked goods, handmade crafts, and more. Special themed days, such as Kids’ Day and Health & Wellness Day, offer additional activities and entertainment, making the market a lively destination for families. The Canton Farmers Market promotes sustainable living and supports local farmers and small businesses.

Trick or Treat Parade

Canton’s Trick or Treat Parade is a beloved Halloween tradition, held annually in October. Children and their families dress up in creative costumes and parade through the Canton Administration Building, collecting treats from local businesses and community organizations. The event includes Halloween-themed games, crafts, and a costume contest, making it a fun and safe way for kids to celebrate the spooky season. The Trick or Treat Parade fosters a sense of community and provides a memorable experience for young residents.

Holiday Tree Lighting

Kicking off the holiday season, the Holiday Tree Lighting event in December is a festive occasion that brings the community together. Held at the Canton Administration Building, the event features caroling, visits with Santa Claus, and the lighting of the community Christmas tree. Hot cocoa and cookies add to the cozy atmosphere, and local performers provide holiday entertainment. This event is a cherished tradition that highlights the warmth and togetherness of the Canton community during the holiday season.

Canton Acts of Culture Week

Canton Acts of Culture Week, typically held in April, is a week-long celebration of the arts. The event features a diverse range of cultural activities, including live performances, art exhibits, workshops, and literary readings. Local schools, community groups, and cultural organizations collaborate to offer a rich program that reflects Canton’s diverse cultural landscape. This event not only celebrates the arts but also encourages community engagement and cultural appreciation.

Cherry Hill Village Festival

The Cherry Hill Village Festival, held in the historic Cherry Hill Village neighborhood, is a celebration of Canton’s heritage and community spirit. The festival features historical reenactments, artisan demonstrations, live music, and family-friendly activities. It provides a glimpse into Canton’s past while highlighting the vibrant community life of today. Visitors can explore the village’s historic buildings and enjoy a variety of food and craft vendors, making it a delightful experience for all ages.

Conclusion

Canton, Michigan, offers a rich tapestry of annual events and festivals that cater to a wide array of interests and age groups. From the exuberant celebrations of Liberty Fest to the cultural enrichment of Canton Acts of Culture Week, these events play a crucial role in fostering community spirit and enhancing the quality of life in Canton. Whether you are a resident or a visitor, Canton's festivals provide an excellent opportunity to experience the town's unique charm and vibrant community life.