Category Archives: Bands, Entertainers & Labels

Even the Ghosts are Gone

October 26, 2009 – 6:51 am

Jeff Westover put together this great montage of photographs from the greater Irish Hills area with the music of The Buzzrats from Ann Arbor to start off Halloween week on Absolute Michigan. (Buzzrats on MySpace)

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Great Lakes Bioneers Conferences – this weekend!

October 12, 2009 – 11:48 am

my island by tbug2
October 16, 17 and 18th will find people from all walks of life gathering on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, MI for the 8th annual Great Lakes Bioneers Traverse City Conference. Organizers expect over 800 participants over the three day conference weekend and there's also the Great Lakes [...]

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Winners of the 2009 Grand Rapids ArtPrize

October 10, 2009 – 10:05 am

ArtPrize 09-Open Water no.24 by deviant_anomaly

ART PRIZE 2009-0032 by RichardD72

AND THE WINNER IS... by rkramer62

DETAIL FROM WINNERS CANVAS by bitsorf

The first-ever ArtPrize in Grand Rapids has ended with Open Water no. 24, a 6' x 19' oil painting by Ran Ortner being chosen as the winner by public vote from 1,262 artists who exhibited at [...]

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Road Trip: Old Town BluesFest ~ September 18 & 19, 2009

September 10, 2009 – 5:05 pm

Old Town Blues Fest 2008 by ChristineElise
The Old Town BluesFest is a two-day FREE music festival that brings national, regional, and local acts to an audience of roughly 15,000 people from across Michigan and nearby states.
BluesFest's music truly is living music, history in the making. Each artist at the festival is asked to play an [...]

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Wine, Music & Microbrew in Traverse City

September 3, 2009 – 9:10 am

Over the last two weekends, The Village at Grand Traverse Commons hosted two new celebrations: the Traverse City Wine & Art Festival and the Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival.

Traverse City Wine & Art Festival by M'Lynn Heartwell
Mike Brenton from the Lansing City Pulse attended the wine fest. In Sampling the Champs he writes about [...]

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Detroit International Jazz Festival ~ Sept 4-7, 2009

September 2, 2009 – 7:57 am

Dave Brubeck Quartet by Maia C
For more than a quarter century, the Detroit International Jazz Festival has entertained millions of fans with jazz legends ranging from Herbie Hancock to Yusef Lateef and Ron Carter. Today, it ROARS on six stages over four days, with blues, gospel, R&B, and one of the finest jazz lineups on [...]

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Wheatland Music Festival – September 11-13, 2009

August 31, 2009 – 7:50 am

trio by worth a few words
The 36th Annual Wheatland Music Festival will be held September 11-13, 2010 at the 160 acre Wheatland Music Organization (WMO) property near Remus (Mecosta County midway between Big Rapids and Mt. Pleasant). The goal of the WMO is to serve as a resource center for the preservation and presentation of [...]

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Ticket Giveaway: KISS Cobo Arena September 26, 2009 – Detroit Rock City

August 26, 2009 – 7:16 am

The legendary rock band KISS is returning to Cobo Arena in Detroit Rock City where they recorded their landmark album "ALIVE" back in 1975. The concerts will take place on September 25th and 26th and Absolute Michigan is excited to be giving away a pair of tickets to a lucky winner for the September [...]

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Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival

August 24, 2009 – 7:16 am

The 1st annual Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival takes place this Saturday (Aug 29) in Traverse City in the historic trees and front lawn of the Village at Grand Traverse Commons.
The festival will feature beer from great Michigan breweries including Arbor, Arcadia, Bell's, Dark Horse, Founders, Jolly Pumpkin, Keweenaw, Michigan Brewing, New Holland, [...]

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Detroit based band's 'library tour' makes stop at Guantanamo Bay

August 19, 2009 – 2:39 pm

We stumbled across this article about Detroit based band The High Strung over at boingboing.net about playing an unusual show at Guantanamo Bay as part of their 'library tour'. With so much in the news about making Michigan 'Gitmo North' we found it particularly interesting. Check it out it's a good read....
Detroit-based indie rockers The [...]

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