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Detroit Homecoming

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
July
Year
1976
OCR Text

JULY 16
The Stars Salute Detroit
at 8:30 with Billy Eckstine, Nicholas Bros., Guy Marks, Marilyn Michaels, Gilda Radner, Marlena Shaw, Jimmy Wilkins and the Homecoming Dancers. $25, $5.
Midnight Jams at Orchestra Hall at midnight with Roy Brooks, Virginia Capers & "Raisin" cast, Billy Eckstine, Billy Daniels, Ron English, Barry Harris, Terry Pollard, Ursula Walker, Wayne Wright, Beans Bowles and Marcus Belgrave. $5.00.

JULY 17
Detroit A Jazz Reunion
at 8:30 at Masonic with Marcus Belgrave, Jack Brokensha, Kenny Burrell, Ron Carter, Ron English, Major Holly, Oliver Jackson, Ed Locke, Harold McKinney, McKinney Cotton Pickers, Billy Mitchell, Sonny Redd. $8.50, 7.50, 6.50.

JULY 18
The Power and the Glory
at Masonic at 3:30 pm with Vera Embree, Eugene Hancock, Tessie Hill, Lloyd Richards, Schola Cantorium, Don Shirjey and James Tatum Trio. $5.00.
Metropolitan Magic (The Detroit Mets) at the Orchestra Hall at 8:30 pm with Shirley Love and George Shirley. $5.00.
Riverboat Rhythms on the Detroit River with McKinney Cotton Pickers at 10:30am for $6.50; Tom Sanders Dixie Land Band at 1:00 pm for $7.50 and Tribe at 3:00 pm for $7.50.

JULY 19
What Color is the Blues?
at the Scottish Rite Cathedral at 8:30 pm with Bobo Jenkins, Kim Weston- A Tribute to Dinah Washington, Blues Ballet, Joe Williams and the Jimmy Wilkins Oren. $8.50.
Superstar Benefit at Masonic at 8:30- to be announced. $25.00.

JULY 20
A Touch of Class
at Ford Auditorium at 8:30 pm with Yusef Lateef & Quartet, Ruth Mecklar Laredo, James Frazier, Jr., conductor, Michael Tolan and Leigh Taylor-Young.
Keyboard Harmony at the Scottish Rite Cathedral at 8:30 pm with Dorothy Ashby, Tommy Flanagan, Johnny Griffith, Roland Hanna, Barry Harris, Major Holly, and Harold McKinney. $8 50

JULY 21
Star Track
at Masonic with the Four Tops, Stu Gilliam, Freda Payne, Della Reese, The Spinners, The Temptations and the Homecoming Dancers. $8.50, 7.50, 6.50.

JULY 22
Superstar Benefit Performance
at Masonic- to be announced.

JULY 21:
Ground-breaking
ceremonies for the $10 million Bicentennial Towers at Woodward & Alexandrine, including the sealing of a time capsule. 10:00 am.

JULY 23:
Fine Arts Reception
at the Institute of Arts, 12 noon.

JULY19-23:
Jazz Workshops
all week featuring: guitar & bass- Ron English; reeds- George Benson, Larry Nozero, Fred Bolt, Sam Sanders; brass- Marcus Belgrave, Herb Williams: percussion - Roy Brooks. For further info., 224-7561.

JULY 23
West Bloomfield Symphony Concert
at Ford Aud. with Felix Resnick, conductor, featuring Dave Van DePitte's composition "Jazz Synthesis". $25,00 per couple; $5.00 per per son.

JULY 24
Cadillac's Landing
will be re-enacted by the French Festival of Detroit with some sixty participants posing as fur trappers, French Marines, Indians and priests, it all starts about 10:15 am.