Detroit Festival of the Arts 2006
Stage Schedules
Friday, June 9
MASCO/Metro Times Stage
"All That Jazz" presented by the Arts League of Michigan
5:30 - Tumbao Bravo (Ann Arbor, Cuban Jazz)
7:30 - Kenn Cox Quartet (Detroit, Jazz pianist)
9:30 - Roy Hargrove Quintet (New York, Jazz Trumpter/Composer)
Wayne/State WDET Stage
"WDET Friday Night Festival Birthday Party!"
4:00 - WDET-FM Radio Host "20 GRAND" Music Motown Mix
4:45 - Soweto Street Beat "Gum Boot Dance" (South Africa, Gum Boot Dance)
5:30 - Magic Kompa Band (Michigan, Haitian Kompa Music)
7:00 - Festival 20th Birthday Celebration!!!
7:30 - Children of the Revolution (Seattle, Contemporary World Music)
LaSalle Bank Music & Literary Lounge
4:00 - Steppin' In It (Lansing, MI, American Roots Music)
5:30 - Shout Sister Shout: Rachael Davis (Cadillac, MI, Blues/Jazz Vocalist)
7:30 - Tartan Terrors (Nova Scotia, Celtic Music/Dance/Comedy)
Casino Windsor Music Cafe
4:00 - Jamison (Rock & Soul)
5:30 - The Biddies (Folk Diva Trio)
7:30 - Blanche (Gothic Country Music)
9:30 - La Vieille Ecole (France, Hip-Hop)
Saturday, June 10
MASCO/Metro Times Stage
3:30 - ODU Afrobeeat Orchestra
5:15 - Thornetta Davis (Detroit, Funky Blues Diva)
7:30 - Bettye LaVette (Detroit/California Soul Singer)
9:30 - Solomon Burke (California, King of Rock & Soul)
Wayne State/WDET Stage
12:00 - DSA Vison Male Ensemble
1:50 - Cornmeal (progressive bluegrass)
3:50 - Children of the Revolution (Seattle, World Beat)
5:50 - Aurelio Martinez (Honduras, Honduran Garifuna Soul)
7:50 - Richard Thompson (England British Folk/Rock Icon)
LaSalle Bank Music & Literary Lounge
LitFest 12:00-5:00pm - presented by Springfed Arts
12:00 - Inside Out Poets featuring Dr. Terry Blackhawk
12:45 - Michael Jones, The Dancing Poet (Detroit)
1:00 - Metro Detroit Writer & Public Open Mic
2:30 - Brian Gilmore (Washington, DC)
2:50 - DJ Renegade (Washington, DC)
3:15 - Barry Wallenstein (NYC) and The Magic Poetry Band (Detroit)
4:00 - Annie Gallup (Ann Arbor)
4:30 - Dick Siegel (Ann Arbor)
5:45 - Charlotte Blake Alston, "Telling on the Downbeat", with the John Blake, Jr. Quartet
7:30 - John Blake Jr. Quartet (Washington DC, Jazz)
Casino Windsor Music Cafe
1:15 - Victor Ghannam (Middle Eastern Innovations)
3:15 - Luke Sayers & The Last to Know (American Roots Music)
5:15 - Hot Club of Detroit (Detroit, Swinging Detroit Jazz)
7:15 - Tartan Terrors (Nova Scotia, Celtic Music/Dance/Comedy)
9:30 - Wallace Coleman (Cleveland OH, Blues)
Sunday, June 11
MASCO/Metro Times Stage
3:00 - Detroit Symphony Orchestra (Detroit, Classical)
Festival Overture (Shostakovich)
Hungarian March from La Damnation de Foust (Berlioz)
Overture to The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Hungarian Dance No. 6 (Brahms)
Morning Mood from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (Grieg)
Thunder and Lightening Polka (Strauss)
Blue Tango (Anderson)
Franz von Suppe (von Suppe) and the Finale from Symphony No.4 by Tchaikovsky
5:30 - The Gospel Truth (Renaissance Unity Choir)
7:30 - Teddy Afro (Ethiopia, Reggae)
Wayne State/WDET Stage
12:50 - Mosaic Singers (Detroit, Celebrated Youth Ensemble)
2:50 - Aurelio Martinez (Honduras, Garifuna Soul)
4:50 - Perla Batalla (Los Angeles, World Music Vocalist)
6:50 - Quetzal (Los Angeles, New Chicano Music)
LaSalle Bank Music & Literary Lounge
LitFest 12:00-5:00pm - presented by Springfed Arts
12:00 - Metro Detroit Writers Award Winners
1:30 - Keir Jackson (Michigan)
1:50 - Anca Vlasopolos & Christopher Kreipke (Detroit)
2:15 - Arthur Pfister (New Orleans) and The Magic Poetry Band (Detroit)
3:00 - Mikhail Horowitz (Woodstock, NY)
3:25 - Jabiya E. Dragonsun and Friends of the Family (Detroit)
4:15 - John D. Lamb (Royal Oak)
4:30 - The Chris Chandler & David Roe Show (The Streets of America)
5:15 - Detroit Working Writers (Spring Readings 2006)
6:30 - The Wood Brothers (California, American Roots Rock)
Casino Windsor Music Cafe
1:15 - Xiao Dong Wei (Alternative Chamber)
3:15 - La Vieille Ecole (France, Hip-Hop)
5:15 - James Blood Ulmer (New York, Blues vocal/guitar)
7:30 - Susheela Raman (India, E.Indian World Vocalist)