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We’re excited to share our 2016-17 season with you! Explore the season in more detail on our site and watch our announcement video: Flip through our brochure: Which performances are you most…

UMS President Ken Fischer announces retirement. Fischer will step down at end of 2016-17 season after 30 years. Kenneth C. Fischer, president of the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan…

The beginning of a new era at UMS.

In 2016, we followed young dancers from our area as they prepared for American Ballet Theatre’s production of The Sleeping Beauty.

University of Michigan student Christina Maxwell sings Mariachi song “Besame Mucho.” She learned this and so much more as part of her multi-week internship experience with Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán.

As part of a day-long Southwest Detroit Mexican Arts & Culture immersion, teachers created masks at the Detroit Institute of Arts. We’re getting ready for Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán on April 1,…

Southwest Detroit mural artist Freddy Diaz designed a special poster for the Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán performance. We chatted with Diaz about starting out with graffiti, living in Southwest Detroit, and Mariachi…

Before Nufonia Must Fall this past weekend, U-M Robotics showed off their own robots in the lobby of Power Center.

On April 15, 2016, Simon Shaheen brings to life the Arab music of Al-Andalus and blends it with the ubiquitous art of flamenco in Zafir, a program of instrumental and vocal music…