This Sunday, shift gears to get to Aretha's Jazz Cafe for a jam session. From 6-9pm you can eat, drink, play, sing, or all of the above for absolutely free!

The jam session has always occupied an important place in the history of jazz education, giving young musicians the open-access training they need to develop their craft while learning from more experienced peers. 

Students develop the confidence needed to survive the night, playing different tunes in unfamiliar keys, with difficult tempos, in front of an audience, oftentimes alongside virtual strangers – they begin to speak the language that only other jazz players understand.

Grab your jingle bells, warm up those vocal chords, and get ready to join GRiZ and friends for a never before seen exclusive jazz caroling show including your favorite holiday songs and …. some GRiZ covers?? This is an extremely intimate and one of a kind event. Be ready to sing along, join the fun, and share your holiday cheer!

WHAT IS GRiZMAS?
Music saved his life, but Detroit built him. Now GRiZ is doing all he can to give back to his community by helping to develop a support network for creative kids in a city ripe for artistic renaissance. By turning the benefit of this cause towards fostering the spirit of Detroit, GRiZ continues to set the intention towards further development in his own backyard. Growing up learning music within the progressive container of Detroit’s music scene changed his life, so as a continuation of his roots, he is now working with Seven Mile to help kids in the city flourish as he did. 100% of the proceeds from every charitable GRiZMAS event go back to our cause!

Detroit-born singer/songwriter K'Jon has seemingly come out of nowhere into the R&B spotlight, but it took years of hard work to become and "overnight success." 

K'Jon was singing in his native Motor City since he was eight years old.  But even as he continued to polish his craft as a tenn and young adult, he never got a major break. Then, his song "Miami" was featured on the soundtrack of the movie 2Fast2Furious in 2004, and the exposure won for him gigs opening for acts like Ne-Yo and Raheem DeVaughn.  He also began releasing his own albums independently, building a slow burn.

“Not since Ella Fitzgerald met Joe Pass on stage has there been so felicitious a mating as Tuck & Patti.”— LEONARD FEATHER, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAZZ

Each week, Gwen Foxx brings in Detroit's best to be featured as apart of Foxxy Gwensday. This week, get in the holiday spirit with your favorite Motown Christmas hits with Tee Turner & The Headliners.

Eriick Starr is a young, charismatic bandleader from Detroit Michigan. Having started learning piano and organ at age 9, Eriick's talents and love for music were honed and developed in his father’s baptist church on Detroit’s lower east-side and continued to be even as he went on to study music at Columbia College Chicago.

Starr is an especially gifted singer, keyboardist, songwriter, composer and arranger; for years he has trained in jazz, gospel, and pop styles. Eriick Starr has also performed with such Grammy Award winning artists as Paula Cole, Diane Warren, and Cory Henry to name a few. Performing professionally since age 19, Starr has had the pleasure to share the awesome experience of his work on many stages throughout the Midwest from local night clubs to places such as the historic Chicago Theatre, and House of Blues;

He has also enjoyed success performing to international audiences in both Italy and Germany. Eriick Starr is a highly dedicated artist and musician; not only that but he is one of brightest up and coming sons of Detroit as well as an authoritative voice on the R&B and Soul music of tomorrow.

"...their repertoire digs deep into the genre, as a read-through of the titles will attest. They take a swing at Roy Milton, Buddy Johnson and T-Bone Walker classics as well as contemporary material from the Stray Cats and Detroit pianist Bill Heid. (Bob) Conner, the man with the reet pleat and steady beat, has done it right."
- Jim Gallert / Detroit / March, 2000

Bettye LaVette is no mere singer. She is not a song writer, nor is she a "cover" artist. She is an interpreter of the highest order. Her gift is being able to take a song, whether well known or obscure, from any genre and making it completely her own. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, and Bruce Springsteen are just a few of the artists who have had their work re-imagined by Bettye.

The sixth installment of Jazzadelic brings the legendary Awesome Dre to the stage. Our monthly show coincides with the 30th anniversary of the album, "You Can't Hold Me Back". DJ TJ will be holdin' down the sound for the evening.

We all know Sleeping Beauty was cursed by a wicked
fairy and awakened by true love’s kiss, but how
did the Prince find the sleeping Princess?

And, why does he feel so compelled to rescue her?
Find the answers to these questions and more as the
classic fairy tale comes to life as a marionette ballet.
Happy ending guaranteed!

This production is the recipient of the 2015 Wilde Performing Arts Awards ‘Best Theater for Young Audiences’.