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Detroit’s Palmer Woods begins six-month series of
jazz, classical and world music concerts in homes on Dec. 22
Palmer Woods, known as a treasure of residential architecture and exquisite design in Detroit, will present a six-concert series of jazz, classical and world music in five magnificent Palmer Woods homes and the Detroit Golf Club. The first concert featuring jazz vocalist Shahida Nurullah and Friends, will be held on Saturday, December 22 at 8pm. Each month, from December through May, internationally-recognized, legendary, Detroit-_base_d musicians will perform to help preserve, protect and improve the Palmer Woods neighborhood and support the arts in Detroit.
Tickets are $25 per concert or $100 for the series of five home concerts, and $55 for the Dinner Dance Concert at the Detroit Golf Club (tickets for the supervised party for children at the Detroit Golf Club are $15). Tickets will be available for purchase online at palmerwoods.org or by calling 313-920-4864. Addresses of the Palmer Woods homes will be mailed with tickets.
Concerts goers will be treated to some of Detroit’s finest musicians in the splendor of five Palmer Woods homes and the Detroit Golf Club. We expect these intimate living room settings to be filled with Metro Detroiters who support the arts, and love the unique architecture, design and home decor found in Palmer Woods. Here is the line-up:
• Saturday, Dec. 22, 8pm: A holiday jazz concert featuring the Shahida Nurullah Trio with festive sounds and food in a Palmer Woods home decorated for the season. Shahida sings the blues, as well as jazz, samba, bossa nova, show tunes, and more. She has wowed audiences from her native Detroit to New York to Paris to Amsterdam and beyond. For more information and to hear some music: http://www.shahidanurullah.com
• Saturday, Jan. 26, 8pm: New Orleans Jazz legend saxophonist Charlie Gabriel and his Quartet will celebrate Mardi Gras in Detroit, with jambalaya, beads and great music music in a gorgeous Palmer Woods home. The Quartet features Taslimah Bey, ragtime pianist, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton and New Orleans. Gabriel has performed and recorded internationally, including early stints with Lionel Hampton and Aretha Franklin. He is member of the famous Gabriel family of musicians from New Orleans.
• Saturday, Feb. 23, 8pm: Peter Psarianos & Odyssey will take you on a journey to Asia Minor Greece, with oud, lauoto, violin, vocals and percussion. Exotic foods to accompany the magic in a Palmer Woods home. Psarianos has performed on the Silk Road Chicago at the Art Institute series, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and elsewhere.
• Saturday, March 15, 8pm: New York violinist Jannina Barefield, who grew up in Palmer Woods, returns to Detroit for an intimate classical concert with pianist Michelle Cooker in a celebration of spring in a Palmer Woods home. Barefield has soloed with the Detroit Symphony and performed at Carnegie Hall with Stella Trio and the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra. Pianist Michelle Cooker will complete the duo and elegant food will top it off! For more information and to hear some music: http://www.myspace.com/stellatrio Jannina will be returning to Detroit in January as a semi-finalist in the Sphinx Competition.
• Saturday, April 26, 6pm: Straight Ahead Trio, three of Detroit’s Grammy Nominated Jazz Divas (bassist Marion Hayden, pianist Eileen Orr and Gayelynn McKinney on drums), will jazz it up at the Palmer Woods Dinner Dance at the Detroit Golf Club. We have added a special party for children in an adjoining room to encourage family attendence. For more information and to hear some music: http://www.myspace.com/straightaheaddetroit
• Saturday, May 24, 8pm: Jazz and classical with a virtuoso duo—A. Spencer Barefield & Donald Mayberry will play hynotic sounds from Monk to Debussy on guitar and bass in a Palmer Woods home. Mayberry has performed with everyone from David Bowie to Lena Horne and the Detroit Symphony. Barefield has also performed internationally with his own groups and with Oliver Lake, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray and many others. His legendary series at the Detroit
Institute of Arts has just been released on CD. For more information and to hear some music: http://www.myspace.com/aspencerbarefield and
http://www.spencerbarefield.com
Historically one of the premier communities in Detroit, Palmer Woods is an enclave that nurtures families and friendships, values diversity, and protects the beauty of its homes, woods and natural habitat. The Palmer Woods Association (PWA) works diligently in our neighborhood to meet the challenges facing us as an urban community.
PWA presents this series of concerts, Music in Homes, to strengthen our neighborhood and Detroit’s image, showcase Palmer Woods as a wonderful place to live and visit, and enrich the quality of life and cultural environment in our city. We hope you will join us!
Palmer Woods Concerts in Homes is presented in cooperation with Creative Arts Collective, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, and with the support of Be Well Medical Center in Berkley (www.doctorbewell.com), B&D Garden Design in Detroit (bdgardendesign.com), Grosse Pointe Collection in Grosse Pointe Woods and Goodwill Printing (goodwillprinting.com) in Ferndale.
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