Join the 50th birthday celebration for Wynton Marsalis February 22 at Hill Auditorium. The Lamp Post Inn will feature special rates using promo code HILLEV.
The University of Michigan Musical Society (UMS) has proudly hosted Mr. Marsalis for many years but this year's performance is bound to be one of the best ever. Scheduled for February 22, 2012, the concert is a tribute to Mr. Marsalli's 50th birthday.
As posted on the University Music Society's web page
Under Wynton Marsalis’ direction, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) performs a repertoire across the full jazz spectrum — from the music’s New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, tap dance to ballet, Wynton has expanded the vocabulary for jazz and created a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers. On this new tour and to celebrate Wynton’s 50th birthday, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will showcase a retrospective of Wynton’s music written for big band. The JLCO may also perform the unique repertoire for which it is renowned worldwide: modern jazz renditions of traditional favorites, including tunes by Thelonious Monk; classic Blue Note Records selections by Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Jackie McLean, Lee Morgan, and Joe Henderson; and modern compositions and arrangements by jazz contemporaries. “The audience was weak from applauding and shouting and jumping up and down with the joy of the great music it had heard.” (El Universal/The Herald)
The Lamp Post Inn is located less than 2 miles from Hill Auditorium and will offer special rates for those attending the concert. Please go directly to the web site at The Lamp Post Inn and use the promo code HILLEV
The Michigan men's varsity lacrosse team will play at The Big House on April 14. A nearby local hotel, The Lamp Post Inn will provide special hotel rates for the event. The lacrosse game will immediately follow the University of Michigan Spring football game at The Big House.
Thie is the first near that the sport has enjoyed varsity status. In May 2011 the University of Michigan Athletic Deparment announced that they were elevating both men's and women's lacrosse to a varsity sport,
Michigan is the first Bowl Championship Series (BCS) conference school to add men's lacrosse since Notre Dame added the sport in 1980 and started competition in 1981. Michigan will join Ohio State and Penn State as the only schools in the Big Ten Conference to sponsor men's lacrosse.
U-M's club-varsity program claimed three of the last four Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) national championships (2008, '09, '10) and won Central Collegiate Lacrosse Association (CCLA) conference crowns in 11 of the past 13 seasons. The club program began in 1940 and was halted before World War II, but it restarted in 1965 and has been competing ever since. The program was elevated to club-varsity status in 2001.
The Lamp Post Inn is located less than 2 miles from The Big House and fans should go directly to the Lamp Post Inn website and use the promo code SPRINGGAME to receive special overnight rates.
Ann Arbor has a wonderful diversity of entertainment locations but sometimes my spouse and I like to get out of town and check out some of the smaller venues. One of our favorites is the Encore Theater in Dexter, Michigan (less than 20 minutes from the Lamp Post Inn). Small, less that 100 seats, the theater specializes in musical comedies and frankly they are unbelievably good. How a small theater can put on Sweeney Todd, Light in Piazza, Oklahoma and a couple of dozen other ones with full choreography and song is beyond me but they do it. The theater combines seasoned Broadway performers with local standouts and the results are amazing. And the price is right as well. Never a performance over $30.00 and most of the time you can find a seat well below that level.
This week I had the chance to see their newest show - Smokey Joe's Cafe. While certainly not their highest profile musical it is a throw back to the rock and roll days and features nearly 40 different songs, primarily Leiber and Stoller. The Encore has certainly done glitzier productions but this one is pure enjoyment and the choreography is particularly dramatic since so many numbers are involved. Not much of a story line, but pure musical entertainment. I had never seen Smokey Joe's Cafe' and I am glad I caught the performance.
Below is a clip from thehttp://theencoretheatre.org/Encore/The_Encore_Theatre_Dexter_MI.html" style="font-family: LucidaGrande, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif;"> Encore Theater's website that summarizes the show. If you want a simple entertainment evening, take the short drive to Dexter, have dinner at one of a handful of restaurants within several hundred feet of the theater, enjoy the free parking, and have a great night out.
Leiber and Stoller, as much as anyone, virtually invented rock ‘n’ roll, and now their songs provide the basis for an electrifying entertainment that illuminates a golden age of American culture. In an idealized 1950’s setting, the classic themes of love won, lost and imagined blend with hilarious set-pieces and slice-of-life emotions. Featuring nearly 40 of the greatest songs ever recorded (On Broadway, Love Potion #9, Jailhouse Rock, and more), Smokey Joe’s Café isn’t just great music – it’s compelling musical theatre.
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The Wolverines Spring football schedule has been announced. Special hotel rates are available at The Lamp Post Inn using promo code SPRINGGAME.
The University of Michigan announcement made on the mgoblue.com website indicates that in addition to the traditional spring game to be held at 12:00 PM on Saturday, April 14, two other activities will take place at the stadium that day - the annual alumni flag football game at 10:00 AM and the intercollegiate lacrosse match between Michigan and Ohio State. The announcement also highlights several other events that weekend, including www.thebighousebigheart.com">The Big House Big Run for charity on April 15.
As released by the University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The 2012 University of Michigan Spring Football Weekend promises to be an action-packed two days (April 14-15) of athletic competition for sports fans of all kinds. The 2012 Mott Spring Football Scrimmage sponsored by PNC Bank anchors the weekend festivities along with the inaugural men's lacrosse match-up with Ohio State immediately following the football scrimmage.
Team 133 will take the field for its annual spring scrimmage at noon EST on Saturday, April 14. Prior to the football team's debut, the Victors Classic Alumni Flag Football Game will be held at 10 a.m. inside the Big House.
Following the football scrimmage at 2:30 p.m. will be the "Battle in the Big House," which pits Michigan's first-year varsity men's lacrosse team against Ohio State.
Admission to all of the events Saturday at Michigan Stadium is free to the public. Fans can make a donation of choice to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital upon entering the gates of Michigan Stadium.
Bonnie Raitt will perform May 25th at Hill Auditorium. The nearby Lamp Post Inn will offer special hotel rates.
The Ann Arbor Summer Festival has announced that Bonnie Raitt will perform at Hill Auditorium on May 25th. This will be a "pre-festival" event for the Summer Festival. The full schedule of performances will be announced at a later date but this pre-event will certainly get the festival off to a fabulous start.
Bonnie Raitt: The Slipstream Tour
With special guest Marc Cohn
Description
More than just a best-selling artist, respected guitarist, expressive singer, and accomplished songwriter, Bonnie Raitt has become an institution in American music. With a unique style that blends blues, R&B, rock, and pop, this nine-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee returns to Ann Arbor in a special pre-season festival concert. Raitt, who was recently named one of the top 100 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone, releases her nineteenth album, Slipstream, on April 10. This special pre-season show is not to be missed.
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The Big House Big Heart event will move from it’s traditional date in October to April 15th. This event will be in conjunction with the Spring Football Game to be played the previous day at The Big House (University of Michigan Stadium). The race is sponsored by the Champions for Charity. The funds raised by the event are used by several area non-profits including ALS research at the University of Michigan and the UM Cardiovascular Center at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital.
The Lamp Post Inn is 1 1/2 miles from the stadium and will offer special overnight rates to those attending either the spring football game of the Big House Big Heart event. In order to obtain the special hotel rates go to The Lamp Post Inn website and use the promo code SPRINGGAME.
The official race site notes that:
The race starts and finishes at the University of Michigan’s famous football stadium–The Big House. It is the largest stadium in the country seating over 107,000 spectators. This chip-timed 5K starts in the parking lot east of The Big House and the run takes you through the University of Michigan’s beautiful campus with a spectacular finish–a run through the Big House tunnel and onto the field. You’ll finish on the 50 yard line and watch yourself on the Big House Big Screen!
My family and I are proud to be the Innkeepers for the Lamp Post Inn, a small family owned hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Lamp Post Inn is located very near the University of Michigan campus and is in an ideal location for those visiting the University or hospitals. We are also less than two miles rom the University of Michigan athletic fields, The Ark, Hill Auditorium, the Michigan Theater and downtown Ann Arbor.
Our dream when we purchased the hotel was not to have the most exquisite hotel in town, but rather to own a hotel that was affordable but met the basics needs of visitors to Ann Arbor. We wanted to provide a convenient, friendly, clean accommodation at a fair price. We realized an older hotel could not hope to compete against the four star amenities of our pricey, and corporate franchised competition but we also believed that most people did not need the glitz, as long as they received value for their dollar.
When you visit Ann Arbor we invite you to stay with us and enjoy our hotel. We are proud to be a part of Ann Arbor, a world leader in academics, athletics and cultural events.