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Music has been the dominant feature of Detroit's nightlife since the late 1940s.The metropolitan area boasts two of the top live music venues in the United States. The Pine Knob Music Theatre (formerly DTE Energy Music Theatre), which was the most attended summer venue in the United States in 2005 for the fifteenth consecutive year, while the closed Palace of Auburn Hills ranked twelfth ...
The genesis of blues music in Detroit occurred as a result of the first wave of the Great Migration of African Americans from the Deep South.In the 1920s, Detroit was home to a number of pianists who performed in the clubs of Black Bottom and played in the boogie-woogie style, such as Speckled Red, Charlie Spand, William Ezell, and most prominently, Big Maceo Merriweather.
Pardo moved to Detroit when he was 10 years old and developed an obsession with 1960s and ‘70s sports cars and modern art. In 1985, he was hired by Dearborn’s Ford Design Center, where he ...
The music of Michigan is composed of many different genres. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years (1959–2007) a greater Michigan-area artist has produced a chart-topping ...
While attending Pyramid during the mid-1980s, Greenleaf met two lifelong friends: Emmy Award-winning journalist and former Detroit Free Press sports reporter Jemele Hill; and Richard LaGrant-Roper ...
1877 - Detroit College (now the University of Detroit Mercy and U of D Jesuit HS) is founded by the Society of Jesus. [3] 1879 - Belle Isle becomes part of city. [3] 1880 - Population: 116,340. [12] 1881 - Future industrialist William Boeing born. [5] 1885 Detroit Museum of Art established. [17] [18] Detroit College of Medicine active. [3]
“The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit” will premiere at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 13, in the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave.
The group came out of the last vestiges of the Detroit rock scene that produced bands such as MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, and Death, and with these acts they formed a musical bridge between the garage rock bands of the 1960s and the later punk movement that emerged in New York and London during the mid-1970s.