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Michigan vintage car museum hires new leader
KALAMAZOO MI -- The Gilmore Car Museum has hired a new executive director, Nick LaCasse, who will be joining the team starting in June. LaCasse will replace interim Executive Director Michael Spezia, who will stay for a bit to help the transition. If you purchase a product or register for...
John Ball Zoo welcomes three new lynx kits
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The John Ball Zoo has welcomed three new residents. The zoo's lynxes, Becca and Thor, are now parents of three new kits after Becca gave birth on May 23. After a smooth birth, Becca and her three kits will be behind the scenes of the...
Kalamazoo Symphony’s summer starts with “Strings Attached”
At 3 pm on Sunday, Jun 2, a quartet of Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra string players and two woodwind players will join guest artists Rachel Miller, harp and Christopher Belland, guitar, to play a program called "Strings Attached." Music director Julian Kuerti joins Cara Lieurance to talk about the works on the program by Ravel, Paganini, Pujol, and Saint-Saens and the various ways harp and guitar are wedded to the ensemble.
Jordan Hamilton: Musical Freedom
Kalamazoo cellist and vocalist Jordan Hamilton has truly come to transcend both the worlds of classical and hip-hop music. Classically trained – with a Master’s Degree from Western Michigan University – he’s performed regularly with the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra for nearly a decade. He’s also...
"Bach around the Block" features three organs and six organists in downtown Kalamazoo
A free progressive concert with three stops, “Bach Around the Block” starts at 7 pm on Monday, Jun 3 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Janet Hill and John Ourensma of the Southwest Michigan chapter of the American Guild of Organists join Cara Lieurance to talk about it.
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