For Your Ears

Start your celebrating early with a
Reasonable Facsimile. Musicians
Anne and Rob Burns bring the
Barenaked Ladies Holiday Specta-
Renaissance alive with period wind,
cle with special guests the Devlins
string and percussion instruments —
rocks the Palace of Auburn Hills.
including shawms,
7:30 p.m. $32.50.
crumhorns, recorders, lutes
(248) 645-6666.
and drums — in a spirited
The
Groove Collective per-
program of dance tunes and
forms with JWQ at the
ballads. 2 p.m. in the Italian
Majestic Theatre. Doors
Gallery of the Detroit Insti-
open at 9 p.m. 4130 Wood-
tute of Arts. 5200 Wood-
ward, Detroit. Advance tick-
ward, Detroit. Free with
ets $20. (313) 833-0120.
museum admission. (313)
Speedball with special
833-4249.
guests
Hoarse, Big Block,
GAIL ZIMMER-
Full
on
the Mouth, The
Songstress Kathy Kosins
MAN
Deans
and
Fletcher Pratt
brings the smooth sounds of
Arts and Enter-
perform
at
St.
Andrew's
jazz to the Oakland Grill.
tainment Editor
Hall. Doors open at 8 p.m.
Accompanied by string bass
431 East Congress, Detroit.
and piano, she'll perform
18 and over. Advance tickets
songs from her recently
$10.
(313)
833-0120.
released CD, All in a Dream's Work. 9
Four
floors
of festivities featuring
p.m. 32832 Woodward, Royal Oak.
live performances by the Articles and
(248) 549-7700.
Mew help ring in the year at Clutch
It's a mixture of Broadway, waltzes,
Cargo's. Doors open at 8 p.m. 65 E.
jazz and onstage dancing with the
Huron. Pontiac. 21 and over. Advance
Detroit Symphony Orchestra this
tickets
$12. (248) 333-2362.
New Year's Eve. Listen to the music of
It's
a
New Year's Eve Bash with the
West Side Story and Phantom of the
Howling Diablos at Ferndale's Magic
Opera by vocalists Nancy David Booth
Bag. Doors opem at 9 p.m. Count-
and Douglas Ahlstedt; enjoy the
down at midnight with Dick Clark
waltzes of the
live in Times
Strausses with
Left: Anne
Square on a 500-
conductor Robert
and Rob
square-foot
Bernhardt on the
Burns of a
screen. 22920
podium; then
"Reasonable
Woodward.
$20
dance the night
Facsimile." _ includes hors
away to the jazz,
'd'oeuvres and
big band and
Below:
party favors.
Motown sounds
Banu
(248) 544-1991ii
of the Keith Sax-
Gibson
ton Sextet. Price
includes New
Year's hats, noise-
makers and a
champagne toast. 9 p.m.
Orchestra Hall, 3711 Wood-
Birmingham's
ward, Detroit. $25-$85. (313)
First Night cele-
833-3700.
brations may
Michigan Radio puts on its
have ended, but
annual Jazz Revisited New
for the Village
Year's Eve concert, this year
Players, the show
featuring jazz singer Banu Gib-
must go on! The
son, who sings jazz of the '20s
group presents a
and '30s mixed with fresh ren-
"very modern c
ditions of popular standards.
musical version"
The post-concert party
of Little Red
includes food, drink, door
Riding Hood,
prizes and mingling with con-
written by
cert artists and the Michigan
nationally
Radio staff 8 p.m. concert;
known song-

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A roundup
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10:30 p.m. party. Power Center, U-M
campus, Ann Arbor; post-concert
party at Zanzibar, 214 S. State, Ann
Arbor. $29.50. (248) 645-6666.

Pho to by Roger Robles

On The
Stage

12/26
1997

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