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Dennos Concert Series

For over 18 years the Dennos Museum Center has offered an exciting array of performances for the community with a growing emphasis on World Music along with Jazz and Blues. At the Dennos you will experience performances not found anywhere else in the region.  Travel to from Detroit to Beijing, from Ireland to India, from Los Angeles to Louisiana all from the comfort of your seat in Milliken Auditorium.

2009-2010 Dennos Concert Series Line Up

	Hanggai Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 8:00 pm What happens when a Mongolian born Punk rocker in Beijing looks to rediscover his traditional cultural identity in modern China?  You get Hanggai.
	Kevin Locke: The Hoop of Life Friday, October 23, 2009 - 8:00 pm Kevin Locke is known throughout the world as a visionary Hoop Dancer, a traditional storyteller, the preeminent player of the indigenous Northern Plains flute.
	Street Drum Corps - BANG! Friday, October 30, 3009 - 8:00 pm Street Drum Corp's BANG offers a high octane, adrenaline pumping performance using household items like buckets, kitchenware and aluminum garbage cans; a blistering "Punk Rock Stomp" percussion show.
	Tab Benoit Friday, November 6, 2009 - 8:00 pm Proclaimed an American music icon and a part of Louisiana folklore and legend, guitarist-singer Tab Benoit is one of the premier roots musicians of our time.
	Corky Siegel and Randy Sabien Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 8:00 pm Corky Siegel is one of the world's great blues harmonica and piano players. Randy Sabien is a master of the jazz violin; the result is a performance like no other.
	The Whitfield Company Friday, January 15, 2010 - 8:00 pm A spectacular concert of spirituals and rousing choral music of the Black church with a dynamite backup band that is simply not to be missed!
	Esperanza Spalding Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 8:00 pm Esperanza Spalding will challenge and expand your perceptions of jazz, and might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music.
	Bob James and Keiko Matsui Saturday, February 6, 2010 - 8:00 pm Two of the world's great jazz pianists come together, at one instrument, for some amazing "four hands" magic.
	Sones de Mexico Friday, February 19, 2010 - 8:00 pm A Grammy Award winning folk music ensemble specializing in Mexican ‘son' including the regional styles of huapango, gustos, chilenas, son jarocho, and more.
	Dervish Friday, March 12, 2010 - 8:00 pm Ireland's award-winning Celtic band offering high energy reels to hauntingly beautiful slow ballads.
	Nrityagram Dance Ensemble Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 8:00 pm An internationally acclaimed dance ensemble from Southern India transports viewers to enchanted worlds of magic and spirituality with the sensuous flow of Odissi, the oldest of India's classical dance forms.
	Jayme Stone's Africa to Appalachia Friday, April 9, 2010 - 8:00 pm What happens when an award winning blue grass and jazz banjo player from Toronto sets out to explore the African roots of his instrument? The answer is Africa to Appalachia, the 2009 Juno award winner for World Music album of the year.
	Matthew Ball Saturday, May 1, 2010 - 8:00 pm The Gen-X arrival to the uniquely American art-form of piano blues & boogie-woogie.