Each of the musicians draws their inspiration from a different tradition--Sligo, Cork, Donegal, Clare, and classical/jazz fusion. The five-piece combination creates a distinctive synergy that has delighted West Michigan audiences. Our Irish music concerts are interactive events and you never know what will happen!

Support for this concert is provided by the Kalamazoo Artistic Development Initiative, a program of the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo.

Music is Healing! Let’s come together to sing songs and chants that ease anxiety and fear. Together, we can cultivate resilience, wrapped in the warmth of our supportive community! No need to read music.

Award-winning Philadelphia native Christine Havrilla brings her “well-built, catchy, smart tunes” (Upstage Magazine) to audiences everywhere, touring solo and also with the support of her band, Gypsy Fuzz. Colleen Clark is a musician and audio engineer in Salisbury, MD. Originally from Rehoboth Beach, DE, Colleen earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Music Theory from the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN) and a Master of Arts in Audio Science from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD).

Join us for a Community/Family Drum with Carolyn Koebel at The Clover Room!

Warren & Flick crafts a sound both invitingly full and authentically transparent; captivating listeners through original material that balances familiarity with an exploratory spirit. Jacob Warren plays double bass, and Grant Flick plays violin, tenor guitar, and nyckelharpa. Their latest album shows an evolution in both their individual playing and ensemble with a great variety of stylistic foundations and a gentle curiosity for moving between and away from conventional idioms.

Sit back, take some deep breaths, and experience The Music Medicine Collective. We are weavers of music, storytelling, healing and wisdom keeping from Southwest Michigan. With an eclectic combination of world instruments we offer meditative and contemplative music and stories with a passion for weaving ancient ideas with new beginnings.

Join us for a Community/Family Drum with Carolyn Koebel at The Clover Room!

Music is Healing! Let’s come together to sing songs and chants that ease anxiety and fear. Together, we can cultivate resilience, wrapped in the warmth of our supportive community! No need to read music.

Singer-Songwriter Aaron James Wright is currently crisscrossing the Midwest countryside in support of his newly released, self titled solo album. Recorded at Broadside Productions by studio wizard/gnome Mike Roche, the album was produced in part by a generous grant from the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo. The album features spare, earnest, rootsy tunes and contributions from Mike Fuerst (Knee Deep Shag, Cornfed Girls, Red Sea Pedestrians), Darcy Wilkin (Cornfed Girls), Al Bates (Sweet Corn) and Mike Roche himself!

The Bahar Ensemble is a five-member group giving regular public performances of a growing repertoire that spans centuries and originates from Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish, Persian, North African, Andalusian, and related traditions.

Recognized in the Jazz Times 2010 Critic’s Poll, the DAVE SHARP WORLDS QUARTET masterfully blends rhythms, sounds, and textures from across the globe with world music inspired original compositions.

Join the Samuel Nalangira trio (with bassist Nathan Durham and world percussionist Carolyn Koebel) for a special afternoon edition of our weekend quintet, featuring the world class additions of harmonica/trumpet/pennywhistle maestro Andy Wilson and the one-and-only Elden Kelly on guitars.

Born in Grand Rapids, MI, Jay Sawyer is one of the most in-demand drummers in New York City. He will be accompanied by Western Michigan jazz students Grant Rupp, Jacob Nowakowski, and Miles Lekan for the first set, and by Western Michigan Profs Mathew Fries, Carlo De Rosa, and Andrew Rathbun or the second set!

Beth Patterson CD Release Listening Party and Circle Sing at The Clover Room

Join us for a Community/Family Drum with Carolyn Koebel at The Clover Room!

Joel Mabus has been a fixture on the North American Folk, Americana, and Roots music scene for more than 45 years, since his first LP was released in 1978. This is his long-awaited 28th solo album. He’s known primarily as a clever & insightful songwriter with an instrumental prowess in roots-based traditions. But this album is a marked departure.

The Western Michigan Gold Company Trio brings together three dynamic musicians whose distinct styles and backgrounds merge to create an unforgettable live experience. Known for their soulful jazz, and love for hard bop, it allows the band to dive deep into the roots of classic swing music. Trio Triptych is a musical experience you don't want to miss. They bring soul and fire to the great Black American Music of Jazz.

Jessica Wolfbird presents her annual Holiday Sing-Along Show, which has traveled all over Michigan - featuring traditional carols and jazzy holiday tunes performed with friends, and a "Holiday Medley" that is a fun romp through the seasons. Singing and shaking along is encouraged - join the fun! 

We love Black Oaks Artist Management, they are committed to the same things we are - Representing women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community! We are thrilled to be hosting these two incredible artists this week thanks to Black Oaks Management!

Described by Nashville Scene as the artist “carrying the banner for a new generation of folk musicians”, Stella’s goal is to bring folk music to a new generation, describing her sound as “Gen Z Folk”. Red Thyme is an Americana/Bluegrass band that finds home among the green valleys, rolling dunes, and vast ravines of the Great Lakes.

Ellis & M.E. is Alma Muxlow, Catherine Ellis, and Bob Elkins. The trio’s creative groove comes from tight vocal and instrumental harmonies, innovative songwriting and covers that speak to our lives and times. Catherine Ellis is well known as a creative singer-songwriter and versatile master of folk, swing, bluegrass, and blues. Her previous recording credits include Counterpoint (Looking to a Future), solo (Time Again), and Carmea (Raining in Yosemite). Catherine is a powerful lead and harmony singer and plays a mean rhythm guitar.

Brick and Mortar Series: Duke and the Nuggets/Grant Vincent Trio at The Clover Room

The Rebel Eves started with a "stars- aligning" type of friendship and musical collaboration. With beginnings in early 2022, the group formed from the love of creativity and the belief that the joy of connection can break down barriers that women have historically been put into in the music industry, our society, and in our individual religious spaces.

Come join these 3 incredible singer-songwriters for their “New Songs Tour.” Each artist will be playing brand new songs that will be written just for this tour so you won’t want to miss out! 

Mike Compton and Joe Newberry, masters of old-time mandolin and banjo/guitar, dig deep into early country music and blues. Their duet-singing, two-man string band ranges between traditional songs, instrumentals, ‘mother’ ballads and original tunes. It’s not about the number of notes with Compton and Newberry, but telling the truth and respecting the song.

Sisters Natalie (cello) and Brittany (fiddle) Haas began their musical lives together, filling their childhood home with Bach suites and old-time tunes alike. It was on their own, however-following divergent paths through disparate musical traditions, countries, and cultures-that they both arrived as virtuosi and composers at the highest levels of contemporary string music.

Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch,” Nic Gareiss (he/they) has been hailed by the New York Times for his “dexterous melding of Irish and Appalachian dance” and called “the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene” by the Boston Herald.

Jormilit Garcia is a vocalist currently enrolled in the award-winning Jazz Studies program at the Irving S. Gilmore School of Music at WMU. Joe Miller was a part of a group featured in the Downbeat Student Music Awards and was selected to be a Ravinia Steans Music Institute Fellow, where he was under the guidance of Steve Wilson, Billy Childs, and Rufus Reid.