Welcome to MichiganFolkLive!
What is MichiganFolkLive.com?
Launched in December 2006, MichiganFolkLive.com is Michigan’s premier source of current information on the Michigan Live Roots Music scene. We strive to always provide the timeliest, most current, most comprehensive source of all things Folk Music related in Michigan. We aspire to always be your first choice whenever you want to know what is happening on the Michigan Roots Music landscape.
Comfy Couch Concerts announces lineup for the 2009/10 Season.
September 26th 2009 - The Jill Jack Band?
October 17th 2009 - Barbara Payton?
November 14th 2009 - Mustard’s Retreat
December 12th 2009 - Angaleena Presley?
January 16th 2009 - Brian Vander Ark
February 13th - Drew Nelson with special guest Chris Buhalis
March 13th - Jan Krist & Jim Bizer
April 3rd - Bill Bynum & Co.
April 24th - Robin Lee Berry
wsg Billy Brandt & Sarana Verlin with the Acoustic Mission Band
May 22nd - Abi Tapia
June 26th - Mark Duval and the Two Track Mind
July 24th - Nora Jane Struthers
August 6th - Ronny Cox
Wixom, MI - Comfy Couch Concerts
Comfy Couch Concerts is a casual, non-smoking, family friendly, concert venue that seeks to promote acoustic, roots-driven music of many genres including folk, blues, country, blue-grass, celtic, americana, world-music and more. Expect to hear from singer-songwriters that will make you laugh and also touch your heart. The Concert Series is sponsored by MichiganFolkLive.com and Newport Furnishings and is held on the beautiful, comfortable furniture in Newport Furnishings Wixom showroom.
www.comfycouchconcerts.com
Ticket Prices $15.00 Adult $10.00 Student 8-18
For Concert information contact:
Steven Johnson Publisher MichiganFolkLive.com
stevenjohnson@michiganfolklive.com
248-910-4941
September 24th 2010 - Grievous Angel
Grievous Angel has been delighting fans at festivals, concert venues and juke joints throughout Michigan for years now, delivering their own rollicking brand of American roots music. Revving up at the fabled crossroads where folk, rockabilly, blues, and alt-country were born, they burn rubber through the backwoods and bayous of the American south.
This musical road trip careens through west Texas, Memphis and the gut-funky soulful side of their own native Detroit. The Smithsonian can keep the artifacts, Grievous Angel rumbles across the length and breadth of American music with a lot of down home grease and nary a whit of reverence. A soul strut is as likely to wind up in the gas tank as a Fort Worth shuffle. These guys will burn anything to get where they’re going. The map blew out of the window at the last truck stop, so just sit back and enjoy the ride… Grievous Angel.
http://www.drumdancerrecords.com/grievousangel
Comfy Couch Concerts / Newport Furnishings
52504 Grand River Ave.
Wixom, MI 48393
(248) 910-4941
http://www.comfycouchconcerts.com
Gleaners Food Drive
Thank you to all who took part in our December Fundraiser benefiting Gleaners Community Food Bank. Not only did we raise enough money to feed 270 hungry people in South-East Michigan but we also received over 200 lbs of non-pershible food donations. Thnak you for joining us in our efforts to make a difference!
Sincerely,
Steven L Johnson
Lisa Leppek
Comfy Couch Concerts/Newport Furnishings
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan
Founded in 1977, Gleaners is one of the oldest and largest food banks in the country. Gleaners is proud to be a founding member of Feeding America and the Food Bank Council of Michigan.
Gleaners distributes donated and purchased food to more than 420 soup kitchens, food pantries, homeless shelters, senior homes and other partner agencies that feed hungry people.
More than half of Gleaners' food about 15 million pounds annually is distributed at no cost to our partner agencies. The rest is provided at a shared maintenance fee of 10 cents per pound, which helps offset the costs of handling and transportation.
Of every dollar donated, Gleaners uses 95 cents for food and food programs. One dollar provides three meals for a hungry neighbor.
Click Here to learn more about Gleaners
Michigan's own Craig Carrick honored with FolkAlley's Folk Spoke award.
Folk Alley's new feature was named the Folk Spokes award because spokes support wheels while connecting an unbroken circle of the best of musical traditions. Folk Spokes is an opportunity for you to nominate the unsung individuals (or spokes) in your community and to give them a well-deserved moment in the spotlight.
"Craig Carrick is involved with a number of projects to promote Folk Music in Michigan. He has a highly successful house concert series, "Carrick House Concerts" that promotes about 8 concerts a year, with all proceeds go to the artists. He is involved in a project that gives free guitars to aspiring young musicians through the Noreast'r Music and Arts Festival. He is heavily involved in planning, promoting and booking talent for that non-profit festival. He also is helping to book talent for both the "Ortonville Jams" concert series and a new Folk Series at Callahan's in Auburn Hills Michigan. ~ Steven Johnson"
Here is the URL to the FolkAlley page.
http://www.folkalley.com/community/folk-spokes/craig-carrick/
Congratulations Craig!
Now is the time to weigh-in to protect our wilderness UP!
Click on the picture above to learn about the sulfide mining threat to our wild UP!
September's "You’re Going to Thank Me Later!" Artist
Click Here to see all the former "You're Going to Thank me Later" Artists
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You know who you are. You’re the person for whom this web-site was developed. You have long ago left behind all the over-hyped, commercialized panderings of commercial radio, where each station sounds like the next one down the dial, and this weeks “flavor of the hour” is determined by a few mass media conglomerates.
You found yourself returning to the music of your youth. You may have discovered it on your local public broadcast station. Or maybe you found that you can find the music you love on satellite radio, or even streaming out of the speakers on your PC from your favorite internet radio station. It may be the blues that drew you back, or folk, celtic, bluegrass, gospel or newgrass. You might enjoy only one genre or maybe you appreciate the heartfelt musicianship of them all. This is your website, designed so that you can see these artists live, whether they are appearing in your backdoor or across the state.
In the months ahead, we have many improvements planned. We’ll be redesigning the site to support a wider range of browsers. We will be adding concert and record reviews in addition to other changes we have planned. But one thing won’t change, our fierce devotion to promoting the music, venues and musicians we love. Remember this is your web-site, please email any suggestions you have to me at the address below.
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What is “American Roots Music”?
American folk music, also known as Americana, is a broad category of music including Native American music, Bluegrass, country music, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Tejano and Cajun. The music is considered "American" because it is either native to the United States or there varied enough from its origins that it struck musicologists as something distinctly new; it is considered "roots music" because it served as the basis of music later developed in the United States, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and jazz.
Source: Wikepedia
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