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Ann Arbor, Michigan–where live music thrives

Classic Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor
Thomas Wilmer

Join correspondent, Tom Wilmer in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a visit with Michael Kondziolka, the Director of Programming at UMS, and Marian James, the Executive Director at the Ark—“Where Music Lives”.

The University Musical Society, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan has been presenting a full spectrum of performing arts since 1880. 

Today UMS presents 75 performances along with more than 100 educational events each season. From classical music to contemporary dance and theater, UMS is the symbolic creative heartbeat of Ann Arbor. 

Michigan Theater's elegant foyer, Ann Arbor
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Michigan Theater's elegant foyer, Ann Arbor

A parallel star in the live performance scene is The Ark.

The Ark was founded in 1965, and it has evolved to become the go-to place in the region for live performances focused on folk, roots, and ethnic music, along with story-telling performances and much more.     

* this NPR podcast was originally broadcast June 2015 it is reposted as a 2016 Lowell Thomas award winning audio travel show.

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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