It's the time of year to think of your fellow man, the spirit of good will and peace and philanthropy should prevail. This weekend sees just one of many notable benefit shows in the area.
What: Benefit Show for South Oakland Shelter with Will Sessions, Misty Lyn & the Big Beautiful and Matt Jones & the Reconstruction. Minimum donation $5. Where: The Loving Touch in Ferndale. When: Friday, December 14th – Doors @ 9 p.m. This Friday, Ferndalians can come listen to music and contribute to the South Oakland Shelter, a homeless prevention center dedicated to providing shelter and supportive programming to help individuals and families live independently. Friday night’s music splices some dusty strums of grainy Americana onto the glitzy grooves of funk-fired dancefloor fare. Yes, twangy indie-folk ruminations meet up with exquisite soul rattlers as a consortium of Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti-area guitar-groups (Misty Lyn & the Big …
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Join MC Frank Woodman on Aug. 23 as he showcases local bands like this curious smorgasbord-pop quintet based in Ferndale.
Gabe Dodson talks about how life - real life - is lived in the moments leading up to and after those perceived "momentous moments" everybody's waiting for. It's best to just let things happen as they will; it's going to work out. That's what he had to do with his band, Old Empire, once he'd gotten it started. The songs that formed their first record, 2008's Queen City Quandaries, were born out of a half-finished novel the Ferndale-based singer/songwriter was struggling through back in 2007. Up until then, the Santa Cruz-born Dodson considered himself just a back-up guy, adding guitar or bass to various bands and unable, as he self-depricatingly puts it, to "carry a tune in a bucket." Somehow, his initial idea for the novel, a darkly-…
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