Community Calendar

Join us as we celebrate our FIRST DECADE!! NTG's turning the big 10 and we're holding a fundraising bash for our 10th Season of Theatre from Scratch! Come dressed in the threads of your favorite decade, rock out to the music of Levona and the DJ stylings of That.Harpy, and support your very own Neighborhood Theatre Group!

Our popular trail walks return for 2025! This walk will feature a performance by the Kalamazoo Drone Society, a group of unnamed and uncredited Kalamazoo-based musicians who collectively record long-form “drone-like” meditative improvisations. Mike Weis of the Stewards of Kleinstuck will lead the walk in.

Attendees should meet at the tennis courts behind the Maple Street YMCA. As the audience will be walking to a location without seating, we recommend wearing appropriate footwear and bringing a portable chair. The hike to the performance location takes about 10 to 15 minutes.

A $10 cash suggested donation per person will be accepted on-site.

2 Stones Events and the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts have teamed up to present the Brighton Blues Bash! — an evening featuring two of metro-Detroit's finest acts: Boogie-woogie blues piano master Mr. B, and Detroit’s Queen of the Blues, Thornetta Davis — presented by Cooper & Binkley Jewelers.
Tickets are $25 for the Main Floor and $15 for the balcony online before Sept. 7. Prices will increase to $35 and $25 day-of at the door.
This event will include a food drive for the Livingston Hunger Council, and attendees are asked to bring a non-perishable item. Of course, they’ll also take a monetary donation — every dollar donated provides three meals locally.

In partnership with the Kalamazoo Nature Center, the Connecting Chords Music Festival will be presenting live music from area artists stationed around the Nature Center.

This event is FREE (donations accepted on-site), and music will be playing from 2:00 – 4:00 PM… feel free to come anytime!

The Alaya Project is the essential bridge between the intricate Carnatic style of Indian classical music and contemporary jazz and funk. Born in the cultural bastion of Oakland, California, The Alaya Project explores new textures and perspectives built over two decades of friendship, dialogue, and musical immersion across genres and continents.

The driving hybrid kit grooves of Indian percussionist and drummer Rohan Krishnamurthy, the soulful Ragas and melodies of Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, and the harmonic bedrock of Colin Hogan embodies the permanence of a changing soundscape.

“To say that Schmidt is simply a performer with a talent to entertain would be a miscarriage of understatement. Schmidt takes her audiences into her world as easily as the child who discovers the endless universes that exist in a cardboard box.” – Door County Advocate, Wisconsin
7 PM Door/ 7:30 Concert
Admission: $20 regular $18 student/senior No advance sales; cash or check at door only

3 Songwriters , 3 sets a great night of music
7 PM Door
8 PM Music
$10 advance // $15 at door https://www.eventbrite.com/.../emily-rose-mike-ward-and...

Emily Rose is a singer/songwriter, recording artist and published poet based in Detroit, Michigan. Her songs are featured in PlayStation Four’s Detroit Become Human, and the film Welcome to Happiness. She also created and hosts Ghost Night, a celebrated monthly series in her hometown which honors departed songwriters.

Monte Pride is a Michigan-born and based singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist whose music recalls the delicate vocals of Simon & Garfunkel, with guitar-work reminiscent of The Tallest Man On Earth and early Joni Mitchell. Paired with electric, ambient soundscapes, he blends haunting melodies with vivid lyricism to create lush, experimental folk songs.

Detroit Singer-songwriter, Mike Ward lyrically-centric, vocally-charged folk songs that occasionally take on social issues. Those are what singer-songwriter Mike Ward loves to create. Living in Detroit, Mike grew up listening to Irish music and singing in choirs. A few of his influences are Jason Isbell, Nanci Griffith, Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and John Prine.
His writing echoes along empty sidewalks, on our nation’s backroads, in family portraits, and in the thin lines between joy and tragedy, love and loss, past, present and future. Mike spent the better part of 40 years on the creative side of the advertising industry but now creates music full time and is immersed in the Michigan music scene.

In collaboration with Sounds of the Zoo

Residing in California and traveling the world from Japan, Goh Kurosawa is a musician armed with Honey Beast (his guitar), Lucky8 (his amp), fresh original songs, electrifying soundscapes and stunning arrangements of familiar global melodies.

Goh has performed in schools, community centers, public libraries, and a wide range of other settings and festivals for music, art, and movement. He has completed more than 20 tours in Japan since 2006, and he has conducted music workshops/seminars all over the world at universities, music schools and other educational institutions.