Arts & Entertainment
Concert of Colors
It's back, the Concert of Colors, Metro Detroit's Annual Diversity Festival. The event, now in its 19th year, keeps Midtown Detroit hopping for one long weekend.
Highlights include Don Was, who'll perform 8:30 p.m. Saturday on the Meijer Main Stage, at Orchestra Hall; and Bettye LaVette, who performs at the same location and same time, but on Sunday.
The concerts take place at four venues. On July 14 acts will perform at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Scarab Club. The Detroit Institute of Arts is home to entertainment on July 15; and the Max M. Fisher Music Center has shows July 16 and 17.
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Other highights include Mr. B’s Joybox Express, 4:30 and 6 p.m. Friday at the DIA, and Latin jazz master Orlando “Maraca” Valle (7 p.m. Friday, July 15, DIA); East Indian jazz/soul songstress Susheela Raman (6:15 p.m. Saturday, July 16, Meijer Main Stage);
Colombian folk/jazz fusion by Pablo Mayor’s Folklore Urbano Orchestra (6:45 p.m. Sunday, July 17, Meijer Main Stage); southern rock from Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real (7:15 p.m. Sunday, July 17, Comerica Diversity Stage) and the family-friendly hip-hop of Detroit’s own Mike-E & AfroFlow (7 p.m. Thursday, July 14, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History).
