by The Carr Center | Apr 6, 2022 | Press Releases
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and Detroit’s Carr Center is shining a spotlight on renowned female jazz artists from Detroit. The Center will host “Great Jazz Women of Detroit: Alice Coltrane, Dorothy Ashby, and Betty Carter” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday...
by The Carr Center | Feb 25, 2022 | Press Releases
Sixty years ago this fall, the world got its first taste of a Michigan superstar-to-be via an album called “The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie.” That Motown debut from 12-year-old Stevie Wonder, comprising nine instrumental tracks, wasn’t strictly a jazz record — and it...
by The Carr Center | Feb 16, 2022 | Press Releases
Detroit’s The Carr Center at DSA will present the dynamic live concert titled To Stevie With Love on Saturday, February 26, 2022, at the Detroit School of Arts, Ford Theatre, 123 Selden Street, at 7:30 p.m. This jazz oriented tribute to the music of Motown legend and...
by The Carr Center | Oct 7, 2021 | Press Releases
Detroit’s Carr Center marks its 30th anniversary this season, returning from a nearly two-year hiatus from live performance and a focus on “the new.” “We never focused on when we might reopen,” said Carr Center President and CEO Oliver Ragsdale Jr. “We focused on what...
by The Carr Center | Oct 3, 2021 | Press Releases
Carr Center staffers were scoping out their new digs in Midtown Detroit when they had an “accident by divine order,” as director Oliver Ragsdale put it. At the Park Shelton on Woodward, the long-running Black arts organization had secured a former retail space to be...
