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mewithoutYou w/ Small Parks and Jahshua Smith & the Race Card
Whimsically morbid as an Edward Gorey alphabet, simultaneously self-abnegating and -aggrandizing, defying simplistic musical or intellectual categorization, mewithoutYou’s new collection of songs is the fabulously vivid outgrowth of an ongoing religious and irreverent eclecticism.
Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers
Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers will make a sprightly young groove doctor out of anyone. With spectacular energy pulsating from every member of the band, the Rainbow Seekers could illuminate the very chambers of Heaven.
The Legal Immigrants w/ Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish, Off the Ledge & Second to None
Four piece band rooted in Grand Rapids, MI playing gangster rock music. What’s that? It’s honest rock n’ roll delivered with a hastily cadence. Far from ‘white boy blues’ and even further from ‘modern rock’
River City Extension w/ Cold Fronts & Ellis
We are a band from New Jersey and though this bio desperately needs a publicist, here it goes: We started in 2007. A lot of people came and left. Here we are with our third full-length record. It is called Deliverance. If you want to know what we sound like come hear us live. We tour a lot.
Owen w/ Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) & American Opera
Owen’s debut was a stark departure from previous Mike Kinsella projects. There no longer existed a need to play odd time signatures just for the sake of being different or writing parts that were technically challenging purely for the sake of being technically challenging. What remained was an artist finding his way through his home studio for the first time while recording all instrumentation on his own.
Big Significant Things
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* A week before they move across the country together, Craig lies to his girlfriend in order to go on his first road trip — to the south. Alone.
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Encore Presentation)
In this darkly comedic odyssey, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi stars as Kumiko, a frustrated Office Lady whose imagination transcends the confines of her mundane life. Kumiko becomes obsessed with a mysterious, battered VHS tape of a popular film she’s mistaken for a documentary, fixating on a scene where a suitcase of stolen cash is buried in the desolate, frozen landscape of North Dakota. Believing this treasure to be real, she leaves behind Tokyo and her beloved rabbit Bunzo to recover it – and finds herself on a dangerous adventure unlike anything she’s seen in the movies.
Crescendo! The Power of Music
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Since its inception in 1976, El Sistema, Venezuela’s phenomenal youth orchestra program, has brought social transformation to several million disadvantaged children in that country. In addition to producing world class musicians like conductor Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema is now a rapidly expanding global movement, changing countless young lives worldwide.
Listening
*DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE, MICHIGAN PREMIERE* David and Ryan are trying to harness the power of the human mind… and failing. They’re both broke and struggle to support their families, but spend all of their time in a garage-lab full of stolen equipment, hoping that inventing telepathy will solve all their problems. After they meet Jordan, a smart and seductive new classmate, they make a breakthrough that changes everything.
An Honest Liar (Encore Presentation)
Renowned magician James ‘The Amazing’ Randi has been wowing audiences with his jaw-dropping illusions, escapes and sleight of hand for over 50 years. When he began seeing his cherished art form co-opted by all manner of con artists, he made it his mission to expose the simple tricks charlatans have borrowed from magicians to swindle the masses. This entertaining film chronicles Randi’s best debunkings of faith healers, fortune tellers and psychics.