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Detroit Jazz Festival 2007
September 21st, 2008 | Author: admin
After getting a great response from the stuff we posted about the 2008 Detroit Jazz Festival, decided to see what we could find (in the YouTube archive) about previous Detroit Jazz Festivals.
Here’s a sweet compilation of scenes and sounds from the Detroit Jazz Festival 2007.
Watch closely, and you’ll see Mr. Travelin Blues show up on this flick too!
Posted in Grooveology, Michiganology | 
Tags: Detroit, I Love Detroit, jazz, jazz piano, Travelin Blues | 
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Detroit Welcomes New Mayor
September 20th, 2008 | Author: admin
Nearly 1,000 people showed up in support of new Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. at Wayne State University … story in Free Press says it’s a new era, a new beginning for Detroit.
More Images from Detroit 2008 Jazz Festival
September 12th, 2008 | Author: admin
More images of the Detroit 2008 International Jazz Festival continue to emerge — a couple weeks after the event — as people get a chance to upload them to Flickr, etc.
Mary Oliver and Wolter Wierbos at Detroit Jazz Festival 2008
You can find more photos by following Juan N’s photo stream on Flickr.
This photo was taken at the Detroit International Jazz Festival on September 1, 2008
Posted in Grooveology, Michiganology, Musicology |
Tags: Detroit, I Love Detroit, I love jazz, jazz, jazz festival, music, photo |
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Obama – It’s Time for Kwame to Step Down
September 4th, 2008 | Author: admin
The choir is growing louder asking Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to step down. Google’s news index is showing 4,003 news articles. (And when that happens it’s an indicator that every major newspaper in the world is reporting a similar news item.) Nobody wants that kind of negative news to go on for 2 more weeks, so people are expecting that big news will be announced today. (e.g. a plea bargain)
Kwame Kilpatrick in the news
Recently adding his voice to the choir according to Detroit Free Press - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
The Free Press says the mayor could plead guilty this morning at 9:00AM
Posted in Michiganology |
Tags: Barack Obama, Detroit, Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, Michigan, politics |
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