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Glenlore Trails: The Witching Hour
Ever since opening in 2020 as a safe and fun activity for families during the pandemic, this high-tech illuminated forest trail has continued to enchant and delight with rotating, seasonal themes. On Thursday, it switches over into a Halloween theme with interactive games, spellbinding lights and sounds, music, food trucks, and more. What has been dubbed “The Witching Hour” runs through Sunday, Nov. 2 before switching over to a wintry holiday theme.
Open evenings Thursday-Sunday, Glenlore Trails, 3860 Newtown Rd., Commerce Twp.; glenloretrails.com. Tickets are $15-$25.
Rhiannon Giddens
Last year, folk musician Rhiannon Giddens was named the inaugural artist-in-residence for the University of Michigan’s Arts Initiative. A banjo player from North Carolina, Giddens has made a career of highlighting the often-overlooked contributions of Black Americans to U.S. musical traditions, particularly in the country and folk genres, and is working on a book, When the World’s on Fire: How a Powerless Underclass Made the Powerful Music that Made America. “I would love to take readers on a trip through American music, guiding them through the discoveries that I have made that bring so many interesting layers to the American story,” Giddens told U-M. “And ultimately what these stories lead to, is that when you start peeling back the wrapper — despite what the people in charge or the people in power want to tell us — is that we are not actually separate. We are always coming together.” This Penny Stamps Speaker Series appearance is an intimate opportunity to learn from Giddens, who has won Grammy awards, a MacArthur “Genius” grant, and a Pulitzer prize.
Starts at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 25; Michigan Theater,
603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor; stamps.umich.edu. No cover.
Zach Bryan
Zach Bryan’s big show at the Big House is set to break a record for the largest in the U.S. With more than 112,000 tickets sold for Michigan Stadium’s first-ever concert, the Oklahoma-raised singer-songwriter is on track to surpass country star George Strait, who played to some 110,905 at a 2024 Texas show. A prolific songwriter, Bryan, 29, became one of the biggest names in music shortly after he started uploading videos to YouTube in 2017 while still enlisted in the U.S. Navy. His most recent studio album, last year’s The Great American Bar Scene, is his most polished yet, offering up 19 country-inflected vignettes. John Mayer, Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen, and Joshua Slone round out the bill in Ann Arbor.
Doors at 4 p.m., event starts at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27; Michigan Stadium, 1201 South Main St., Ann Arbor; axs.com. Tickets start at $75.
Foxy Roxi’s Disco Roulette
For her next act, local burlesque star Roxi D’Lite is trying something a little different. Together with her husband Charlie Champagne and produced by their Whoopee Club, this event will transform Greektown’s new Tip-Top Showbar into a 1970-style game show complete with audience participation, a spinning wheel of fortune, fabulous prizes, and lots of disco bangers spun by DJ Tony Foster and sung by Jerome Bell-Bastien from Detroit singing duo the Disco Daddies; there will also be drag by local queens Bentley James and Mimi Southwest. A dance party will follow the show, which D’Lite says she would like to make a regularly recurring and fun night out.Starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27; Tip-Top Showbar, 440 E. Lafayette St., Detroit; events.humanitix.com/discoroulettevol1. Tickets are $30.
Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation
The Detroit Institute of Arts is gearing up for Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation, its first major Native American art exhibition in over 30 years and one of the Midwest’s largest showcases of contemporary Indigenous art. Featuring around 90 pieces by more than 60 Anishinaabe artists from the Great Lakes region, the exhibition spans painting, sculpture, photography, beadwork, film, and more. Created in collaboration with Anishinaabe advisors, including members of the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi tribes, the show will be presented in both English and Anishnaabemowin. The exhibition runs through April 5.
Opens 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28; Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit; dia.org. No cover for residents of the tri-county area.
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