24th Concert Of Colors Returns To Midtown Detroit July 14-17, 2016

posted on: Mar 3, 2016

Detroit Free Press, Don Was collaborate to spotlight Detroit’s greatest songs

 Dearborn, Mich. (March 2, 2016) – The Concert of Colors – Detroit’s beloved annual diversity-themed musical celebration – has always had the whole world in its bands, including the indigenous music of the Motor City.

For its 24^th annual affair, Thursday, July 14 through Sunday, July 17, 2016, Concert of Colors welcomes back Detroit native son and super producer Don Was for the 9^th annual Don Was Detroit All-Star Revue, with a twist.

This Revue, set for 8 p.m. Saturday, July 16, 2016, on the Meijer Main Stage at Orchestra Hall, will serve as the showcase for some of Detroit’s 50 Greatest Songs, a project of the Detroit Free Press which aims to find consensus on some of the city’s all-time best music, as selected by the public, artists and other music professionals. The project kicks off at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, 2016, with a free public event at HopCat, 4265 Woodward Ave. in Midtown, where a panel of experts will discuss Motor City music and assemble the ballot of songs to be voted upon by the public.

Read more about the Free Press project at

http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/03/02/announcing-detroit-50-greatest-songs-project/81161014/.

The complete musical lineup and performance schedule for the 2016 festival will be revealed this spring at www.concertofcolors.com, along with details about the fest’s Forum on Community, Culture & Race, set to take place at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. All performances and the Forum are free and open to the public.

The Concert of Colors is produced by the Arab American National Museum (AANM), with presenting partners Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, University of Michigan – Detroit Center, BUILD Institute and AANM’s parent organization, ACCESS.