DSO Music Director Jada Biñamini will take the stage this weekend to conduct three concerts at the Orchestra Hall. (Photo credit: Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2022-23 classical season this weekend with an ambitious and varied programme.
Music Director Jadar Binamini will take the stage to conduct three concerts at the Orchestra Hall at 3711 Woodward Avenue in Detroit. The final on Saturday, June 10th at 8pm will be streamed free as part of DSO’s Live From Orchestra Hall series, with a pre-show talk beginning at 7:45pm.
The final program includes Wynton Marsalis’s “Messenger, Shout Hallelujah!”, Richard Strauss’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and Edouard Lalo’s “Symphony Espanol” featuring violinist Maria Eenas. be
For tickets and other information, please contact 313-576-5111 or dso.org.
Other featured music events this weekend (all subject to change) include:
Friday, June 9th
• Detroit Jazz Festival presents Rising All-Stars Weekend featuring six up-and-coming players from the metropolitan area at 6:00 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 10 at Dirty Dog at 97 Kercheval It will be held at the Jazz Cafe. , Gros Pointe. 313-882-5399 or dirtydogjazz.com.
• Irish singers Darmont Kennedy and Sasha Alex Sloan’s “The Sonder Tour” will be at the Meadow Brook Amphitheater on the University of Oakland campus in Rochester Hills at 7:30 p.m., 313-471-7000. Or visit us at 313Presents.com.
• Detroit, 431 E. Congress St., St. Andrew’s Hall, Toronto rapper’s grandson with K. Frye. Reception 313-961-8961 or saintandrewsdetroit.com at 6pm.
• At The Drive-In spin-off Sparta will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album Wiretap Scars at 6:30 pm Thursday at the Croft Ballroom at 1 S. Saginaw St. Doors. Also starring Jeff Rickley and Zeta. 248-858-9333 or thecrofoot.com.
• Seattle singer-songwriter Damian Jurado will perform at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, 4454 Woodward Ave. Doors open at 7:30 pm, 313-832-6622 or mocadetroit.org.
• Historic hard rockers Quiet Riot will perform at 6:30 PM at Smugglers Wyandotte, St John St Doors 1. Britney Fox and Si-Yin will also be attending. 734-530-1788 or smugglerswyandotte.com.
• Local trio Florence will perform at 20 Front Street on Lake Orion at 8pm. 248-783-7105 or 20frontstreet.com.
• Los Angeles DJ duo Two Friends will perform at 7pm at 2115 Woodward Avenue, Fillmore Detroit, 313-961-5451 or thefillmoredetroit.com.
• Another DJ duo, Agents of Time, headline a four-act performance at The Magic Stick, 4120 Woodward Avenue, Detroit. Reception 313-833-9700 or themajesticdetroit.com at 9pm.
• The Justin Dillard Organ Trio will stay at Cliff Bells at 2030 Park Avenue in Detroit through Sunday, June 10th. 313-961-2543 or cliffbells.com.
• Marco Flores and Conjunto Nube en Detroit join the Moros y Su Reunion at the Masonic Fountain Ballroom at 500 Temple Street in Detroit, south of the border. 9:00 pm reception 313-548-1320 or themasonic.com.
• Depeche Mode tribute, Music for the Mass, played by Nine Inch Nails specialists at The Magic Bag, 22920 Woodward Ave. Doors, 8 pm 248-544-1991 or at themagicbag.com. Pairs with Ground Twist.
• Cadieux Cafe will be hosting a Legends of Punk Night tribute to The Crash (Clampdown), The Ramones (The Whoremons) and The Sex Pistols (The Fabulous Disaster) at 7pm at 4300 Cadieux Road, Detroit. 313-882-8560 or cadieuxcafe.com.
• Reformed heavy rock collective Vulgara returns to Diesel Concert Lounge, 33151 23 Mile Road, Chesterfield Township. Doors open at 7pm, 586-933-3503 or Dieselconcerts.com.
• At 8:00 PM, the Trinity House Theater, Six Mile Road 38840, Livonia, will host Keynote Sisters, a local favorite. 734-464-6302 or trinityhousetheatre.org.
• Canadian duo Whitehorse (Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet) will perform at The Ark 316 S. Main St. 313-761-1818 or on theark.org at 8pm.
Saturday, June 10th
• The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Chandler Park Conservation Society will perform the 3rd Annual Sounds of Summer with DSO Members and Marion Hayden & Friends at 2:00 pm near the northwest corner of Frankfort and Gray Streets in Detroit. – Host a concert. 313-576-5111 or dso.org.
• Local rapper Boldy James is represented at St. Andrew’s Hall at 431 E. Congress St. in Detroit. Reception 313-961-8961 or saintandrewsdetroit.com at 8pm.
• Outlaw Country star Cody Jinx joins Whitey Morgan and Erin Biancourt at 6:30 pm at the Michigan Lottery Amphitheater, 14900 Metro Parkway, Sterling Heights. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com.
• Anthony Hamilton sings Old School Soul at 7:00 PM at the Aretha Franklin Amphitheater, 2600 Atwater Street, Detroit. 313-393-7128 or TheAretha.com.
• Friends and musical associates of ill metropolitan singer-songwriter Stuart Franke will pay tribute to him with an all-star concert at 8pm at Trinity House Theater, 38840 Six Smile Road, Livonia. 734-464-6302 or trinityhousetheatre.org.
• Rightheaded rapper Ozee Moore and The Chris Johnson Group join forces at 8pm at the Sosnick Courtyard at the Fisher Music Center at 3711 Woodward Avenue, Detroit. 313-576-5111 or dso.org.
• Rio and Rockabilly Revival is this week’s free entertainment from 6pm at Hotel Royal Oak, 811 E. Eleven Mile Road. 248-547-9770 or hotelroyaloak.com.
• British indie rock quartet Omerta joins Moodling, Enemy of God and Buckstabber to perform at Sanctuary in Detroit, Hamtramick and Caniff 2932. 6 p.m. Reception 313-462-4117 or sanctuarydetroit.com.
• Detroit punk rock quartet Come Out Fighting will perform live in five acts at Loving Touch, 22634 Woodward Avenue, Ferndale. 6:30pm at reception 248-820-5596 or thelovingtouchferndale.com.
• San Diego alternative/rock quartet Wavves, Cloud Nothings and Ultra Q will perform at El Club, 4114 W. Vernor Highway, Detroit. Available at 7pm, 313-757-7942 or elclubdetroit.com.
• A tribute to AC/DC (Shot in the Dark), Poison (Ride the Wind) and Tesla (Psychotic Paradise) will meet at 7:30pm at The Token Lounge, Joy Road 28949, Westland. 734-513-5030 or tokenlounge.com.
• Caamp frontman Taylor Meier brings side project Sumbuck for an 8pm show at The Ark on S. Main St. 316. 313-761-1818 or theark.org.
Sunday, June 11th
• R&B veteran John B will perform at 7:30 pm at the sound board at the MotorCity Casino Hotel, 2901 Grand River Avenue, Detroit. J. Brown opens. 800-745-3000 or soundboarddetroit.com.
• At 8pm, Francis Grove will headline at The Lager House, 1254 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, supported by Get Tuff and Phabies. 313-500-1475 or thelagerhouse.com.