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Thursday night is Michigan Bass Night at the historic Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor. Diana Gannett, ISB Past President and University of Michigan Professor Emerita of Bass, will kick off the evening with a keynote address, “The ISB and Me.” Diana will be joined on the stage for performances by Philip Alejo, Wendall Rosa, Ron Merhavi and Jacob Warren. University of Michigan Professor of Bass Nicholas Walker will perform his Sonata for Double Bass & Piano with pianist Nick Weiser. Michigan Bass Night host Tom Knific and Carlo De Rosa will perform together and as the Carlo De Rosa Trio and Tom Knific Trio/Quartet, featuring Michael Kocour, piano, Dane Richeson, drums, and Renata Artman Knific, violin. A bass octet will perform Home Bass by Tom Knific with Diana Gannett, Nicholas Walker, Jacob Warren, Tom Knific, Marion Hayden, Carlo De Rosa, Jonathan Reed and Derek Weller. Then Detroit’s own Ralphe Armstrong, the pioneering jazz fusion fretless bassist, will take the stage for a rendition of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin’ On? Finally, no tribute to the bass in Michigan would be complete without a tribute to Motown legend James Jamerson. His daughter Annie Jamerson will join us to remember her father’s career, and a bass choir will close out the evening with one of the songs he famously anchored, “My Girl,” arranged by ISB Past President John Kennedy and performed by John, Jacob Warren, Jonathan Reed, Diana Gannett, Nicholas Walker, Larry Hutchinson, Derek Weller, Kurt Melendy, Tom Knific, Marion Hayden, Carlo De Rosa and Ralphe Armstrong. |