Michigan Festival of Sacred Music

We're looking forward to seeing you all out at the Dr. Lawless International Dark Sky Park / Michigan Dark Sky Preserve on Friday night! The weather looks to be picture perfect, and if you attended our event last year, the music with Selkie will be equally fantastic!

Don't miss this community favorite event this Monday from our organist friends at SW Michigan Chapter AGO!

Our organist friends at SW Michigan Chapter AGO are having their "Bach Around the Block" event this Monday, June 3, starting at 7:00 PM!

Their annual, free family-friendly event features an "organ crawl" played by area organists in three downtown Kalamazoo churches. Start your evening at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, walk to Kalamazoo First Presbyterian Church, then on to Kalamazoo First Congregational UCC!

Come on down to the Kalamazoo Fretboard Festival all day today, there’s lots of great music and vendors to say hi to. Be sure to stop by our pop-up booth and register for our ticket giveaway!

We're very much looking forward to our collaboration with The Irving S. Gilmore School of Music's Bullock Series, bringing in the amazing Edmar Castañeda Quartet on Wednesday, October 25 at the Dalton Center Recital Hall at 7:30 PM.

There will be a pre-concert talk at 7:00 PM with Matthew Fries (Assistant Professor, Jazz Piano, Jazz Studies – Western Michigan University) and Beau Bothwell (Assistant Professor of Music – Kalamazoo College).

We would like to thank the John Stites Jazz Awards for their generous sponsorship of what should be an amazing concert!

Edmar Castaneda Quartet live @ Trancoso 2019 Edmar Castaneda Quartet live @ TrancosoAndrea Tierra Vocal Shlomi Cohen SaxRodrigo Villalon Drums

Today's a busy Festival day!

If you're planning to attend our Trail Walk with Slow Bell Trio today at noon, meet at the tennis courts behind the Maple Street YMCA. If possible, please park in the lot area closer to the courts -- we don't want to take up spaces for YMCA guests.

If you're planning on attending the Rahim Alhaj Trio concert at Stetson Chapel at 4PM, here's what you need to know:

– Online ticket sales will close at 2:00 PM.

– If you don't have a ticket, don't worry – tickets will be available at the door. There's plenty of room for everyone at Stetson Chapel!

– Parking: keep in mind the construction in and around the area. There should be street parking available on Academy, Lovell and surrounding streets at the time of the concert.

– There's a parking lot off Academy behind the Trowbridge Residence Hall if you need handicap accessibility. Here's a link to the campus map: https://www.kzoo.edu/about/campus/

Concert preview: Master oud player Rahim AlHaj returns to Connecting Chords Music Festival A conversation with Beau Bothwell and Rahim AlHaj

Thanks to Cara and WMUK 102.1 FM for the great interview. Tickets are going fast for Wednesday's show, we're really looking forward to this performance!

Ukraine's Kommuna Lux to play Bell's Eccentric Café A conversation with Cori Somers

Take a listen to this great interview with David Briggs before his performance tonigjt! Online ticket sales will close at 5pm for the event, get yours here: https://connecting-chords.square.site/product/david-briggs-organ/20

No ticket? Don't worry – there's plenty of room at St Luke's, we'll save a seat for you!

The Connecting Chords Music Festival presents English organist David Briggs' recital and improvised film score performances this week A conversation with David Briggs

What sets Strom's klezmer ensemble apart from many others is all the musicians add improvisation to their performances. It is often thought that the klezmer musicians from before World War II did not improvise, but this is not true.

Often a well known klezmer dance or even a Yiddish folk song was sung and played slightly differently from each other even in villages that were within 100 kilometers of each other.

Join us this Sunday!
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KOLOMEYKE - Elizabeth Schwartz & Yale Strom Traditional Ukranian folk dance medleyElizabeth Schwartz - vocalsYale Strom - violinJAZZ ROOTS 25th Anniversary ConcertSan Diego City CollegeOctober 2, 2011

We're getting excited for Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, this Sunday at Congregation of Moses! Be sure to pick up your tickets early – we switched ticket vendors, so there's NO MORE FEES for buying online!

Tickets are $17 for general admission, $12 for seniors, and ages 25 & under are only 5! (Prices increase to $20/$15/$5 at the door.) We look forward to seeing you for what promises to be a really fun show!

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi | Connecting Chords Music Festival The Connecting Chords Music Festival is proud to welcome Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, presenting a program of klezmer music "with a little horseradish on the side."