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You Can Dance: Tap 22/23
Free
Public Workshop

Calling All Curious Movers…You Can Dance! returns for another season of movement and community at Riverside Arts Center.

NT Live: The Crucible
Film Screening
Performance

Lyndsey Turner directs this contemporary new staging, designed by Tony Award-winner Es Devlin (The Lehman Trilogy). Starring Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell. “A gripping revival of Arthur Miller’s masterpiece.” (The Telegraph)

Cécile McLorin Salvant
Performance

A UMS favorite since her 2017 debut, Cécile McLorin Salvant continues to defy expectations with her genre-obliterating virtuosity.

Julius Eastman’s Femenine
Performance

American composer, pianist, vocalist, and dancer Julius Eastman was young, gay, and Black when it was even more difficult to be young, gay, and Black in America. The Los Angeles music collective Wild Up is carrying the music of Julius Eastman forward, performing his chamber work Femenine.

Come Together: An Evening of Community and Song
Free
Performance
Ypsi Freighthouse

UMS’s Ypsilanti Freighthouse residency begins with an invitation to community members to share their voices through a Community Sing, led by Detroit native Dr. Brandon Waddles, a transcriber of Black gospel music whose choral compositions and arrangements have been performed around the world.

Audra McDonald
Performance

Free Event

Audra McDonald

Sunday, April 23

Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald returns to the Hill Auditorium stage for one night only!

Power Moves: Breakdancing, Art, and Creativity
Family Friendly
Free
Public Workshop
Ypsi Freighthouse

In this workshop, local movement artist Maurice Archer will lead families in an interactive breakdancing demonstration and a graffiti artist will guide families through developing their b-boy and b-girl names.

Kaleigh Wilder Trio: The Story Cuts Across What the Map Cuts Up
Pay What You Wish
Performance
Ypsi Freighthouse

Baritone saxophonist Kaleigh Wilder has performed around the world, led her first album release, and now has plans to release two more albums as a bandleader with a New York-based record label—among several other ongoing projects. Hear her perform at the Freighthouse with Jaribu Shahid on bass, drummer Ben Hall, and dancer Alexandria Davis.

The Regenerate! Orchestra
Free
Performance
Ypsi Freighthouse

The Regenerate Orchestra, which is made up of community members of every stripe, comes together to bring Ypsilanti a one-of-a-kind musical experience.

Marsae Lynette – Reconnecting Currents: A Healing at the Huron
Pay What You Wish
Performance
Public Workshop
Ypsi Freighthouse

In this participatory public event, Marsae Lynette presents an evening of film, performance, and community, inviting audiences to reconnect with one another and freshwater sources like the Huron River.

Open Mic Night at the Freighthouse
Free
Ypsi Freighthouse

FREE EVENTS

Open Mic Night

Friday, April 28

Bring yourself, your friends, and whatever unique creative contribution you can offer in a local artist showcase hosted by Ypsilanti resident and singer/songwriter Rochelle Clark.

Late Night DJ Set with Todd Osborn
Free
Ypsi Freighthouse

Ghostly International artist Todd Osborn leads a free late-night DJ set, following Open Mic Night at the Freighthouse.

John E. Lawrence & The Power Band
Pay What You Wish
Performance
Ypsi Freighthouse

In the closing performance of UMS’s April Ypsilanti Freighthouse residency, John E. Lawrence and The Power Band take the stage for a sophisticated evening of jazz.

Puppetry Workshop: The Power of Light & Shadow
Family Friendly
Free
Public Workshop
Ypsi Freighthouse

Experience Detroit Puppet Company’s presentation of The Carnival of the Animals and learn how to make your own shadow puppets.

NT Live: Othello
Film Screening
Performance

Shakespeare’s compelling tragedy of boundary-defying love is brought startlingly up-to-date by a stellar cast, including Giles Terera (Hamilton) as Othello, Rosy McEwen as Desdemona, and Pal Hilton as Iago.

Snarky Puppy
Performance

Free Event

Snarky Puppy

Sunday, September 10

With their 2023 Grammy-winning Empire Central, the genre-defying super-band Snarky Puppy returns to Ann Arbor for its third UMS appearance and its first since 2019.

Shakti: 50th Anniversary Tour
Performance

Following word of the Summer 2023 release of This Moment – their first new studio album in 46 years – revolutionary ensemble Shakti will continue to discover and explore the musical common ground bridging East and West on an extensive U.S. tour.

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