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🚨On January 6th, the Alehouse will officially be 10 YEARS OLD! 🚨 We invite you to celebrate the following weekend with Alehouse patrons, regulars, and employees (former and current!). There will also be raffles, prizes, throwback menu items, the annual release of our anniversary beer, Javine, and much more. 🥳 We are so thankful to be celebrating such a huge milestone… and we couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you all from 2016 to 2026 for the love, laughs, and camaraderie.

Friday January, 9th— live music will start around 4:30 and…

Free, all-ages concerts hosted on the 2nd Sunday of each month: Sponsored by the Friends of the Ferndale Library!

FeRn Whale is a married “meditative folk” duo that blends elements of indie rock with jazz, dreamy psychedelia, and a touch of grunge. Ypsilanti-based songwriters Angela and Tom Sheppard are both natural-born storytellers who found each other through music; together, they create lively and intimate neo-folk soundscapes.

It's a bit of a drive, especially during the winter, to come in from Ypsilanti, so please show some…

Hanging on the Old Town is a favorite past time and it's even more fun when there's music. This time we (Rod, me, Jason and Ozzie) get to provide the music for YOU! Come hang with us. Bring friends!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1411999303649493/

Take some time for yourself, find your breath, destress & detox with yoga with Roo at Wolverine Pickelball. Everyone is welcomed to this light hearted, all level yoga class. Modifications are given, from advanced to beginners. There will be some fascia release added in (balls & explanation provided) - really help decrease tension in the body. It is a wonderful way to spend an evening, connecting with your breath and body, improving your flexibility and mobility. Stay for socializing and a cocktail/mocktail/beer/whatever afterwards.

What…

🎶 Free Music Friday featuring Orbitsuns. Fronted by Vinnie Dombroski, lead singer of Sponge. This this Detroit powerhouse blends rock grit with a honky-tonk heartbeat. Loud, soulful, and unapologetically Motor City. No cover, just great music and fun times!

Click on the 'Tickets' link for more information...

https://www.facebook.com/events/25052672987715557/

Sale Dates and Times:

Public Onsale : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 at 04:30 PM

https://www.facebook.com/events/1587543962404771/

3 BANDS. $5 cover Doors at 9
Rob Louis & the Perdy Boys
Lucy's Brown Seville
HillBilly Knife Fight

https://www.facebook.com/events/1150032300513881/

Central Dogma, Breakfast At 2pm, Karmic Cycle, Second Body at The Sanctuary 1/17/26

Central Dogma will be debuting their newest addition, Frankie Hughes, as vocalist! Frankie will be performing live
for the very first time!

This will likely be one of Central Dogma's last shows before hunkering down in the studio recording the next album, so don't miss this special opportunity!

tickets and information available at http://www.sanctuarydetroit.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/2634754533564070/

Don't miss the heavy hitting music of Carrion Vael, Summoning the Lich and Demon King live at Diesel Concert Lounge in Chesterfield, Mi January 17th 2026! Featuring local support from Exploding Zombies, Archimime, Life of Suppression, Bound by Vendetta, Darkeater. Nulldriver and Veilborn!

https://www.facebook.com/events/610984258703289/

Live music in everybody’s favorite small theater

https://www.facebook.com/events/810666021715456/

This is a 18+ event with standing room only | Advance tickets may also be purchased in person at the General Store by card only (no cash)

The Red Sea Pedestrians are a one-of-a-kind, full-blown, instrument-swapping fusion between tradition and the here-and-now. We’re talkin’ high-energy world-beat grooves, hypnotic laments from the earth, songs of celebration and wonder, all filtered through the band’s original vision. RSP is a melting pot of six distinct singer/songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, exploring a warped and beautiful blend of Rock, Klezmer, and American…

🚨 GRAND RAPIDS — ARE YOU READY TO SKATE OR FLY?! 🚨
Lethal Lucha Wrestling explodes into 2026 with a night of pure chaos, high-flying insanity, and heavyweight destruction at the GR Skate & Event Center on January 18th!

This isn’t just another show…
This is SKATE OR FLY — and EVERY match is a banger. 💥💀

🎟️ PRE-SALE TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW:
👉 https://shorturl.at/opFNh

Get them early. Get them cheap. Get them before someone else does.

🔥 MAIN EVENT COLLISION
KONGO KONG…

🍯 Liquid Gold: A Night of Meadmaking

KLOB Meeting – Monday, January 19 | 7–9 PM
📍 Brewery Outré – 567 E Ransom St, Kalamazoo

You’ve brewed the beers. You’ve sipped the wines.
Now it’s time to meet mead — and this meeting might just change what you thought fermentation could be.

This month’s feature: an interactive presentation on meadmaking by Brian Stephens, a decorated brewer whose meads have taken home multiple competition medals. From delicate traditionals to bold fruit bombs, Brian will walk us through: See more details | Add to gCal

Blow off some steam — creatively! Join us for an evening of adult coloring with a bit of a vulgar twist. We'll supply the colored pencils and coloring books, you bring yourself and, perhaps, an adult friend. 🍻🖍🧑‍🎨

Benefits of adult coloring may include:

- Reduced stress
- Creativity building
- Self-reflection and,
- Our favorite, a damn good time

We'll kick the fun off at 6 p.m. — see you there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1258875182807872/

Join us as we celebrate beer and food in all its glory! 4 courses, each paired with just the right beer, to create even more deliciousness! With Chefs Mario and Jeremy, and Cicerones Annette & (brewer) Mike at the helm, this is going to be good!

Here's a sneak peak at the menu! ("Welcome" pairing & intermezzo will be a surprise!)
1. Savoury gorgonzola cheesecake with roasted red grapes
2. Frisee & spinach salad with toppings, and a very special vinaigrette
3. Roasted pork shank with roasted potatoes,…

Nik Malicious, Skye, Screen Tear and more!

https://www.facebook.com/events/4233727490199850/

Join us for our FIFTH annual jeffest!

Featuring:
PIT LORD
DRINK THEIR BLOOD
DISCO BEHEMOTH
WESTNEDGE
KILL TOMORROW
SUPERGRUDGE
POLITICS OF DANCING

$10. 21+

https://www.facebook.com/events/1367963284976453/

Halloween
Demon Bitch
Baazlvaat
Doors open at 8pm
18+ w/proper ID & All Ages w/parent
No Re-Entry / No Backpacks / No Outside Beverages

https://www.facebook.com/events/1473667203710688/

✨Sounds of the Zoo Presents: Live. Local. Vibes. with Jennifer Westwood, Dylan Dunbar wsg Ted Russell Kamp Feat. Lisa Mackie & Ryan Gladding of The Incantations

✨Saturday, January 24
📍 Old Dog Tavern
🕗 Music at 8:00 PM
🎟 $10 | 18+

Join us Friday, January 24 at Old Dog Tavern for a night made for the storytellers.

✨Sounds of the Zoo is proud to help open and strengthen the creative connection between Detroit and Kalamazoo, while working toward building a solid, sustainable music industry for the entire state…

Come celebrate normal speed with the artists that made it possible! Friday 1/30/26 at Ziggy’s in Ypsilanti!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1404415074605005/

Blending academic research and improv comedy to inform, enlighten, and entertain! 3 10-minute lectures and 3 10-minute improv sets per show.

https://www.facebook.com/events/849082794633532/

Think Zappa meets Weird Al in the middle of a type 2 jam and has a Ween baby.

The award-winning five-piece rock group has shared the stage with bands like Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Papadosio, Here Come the Mummies, Andy Frasco, Dopapod, Ripe, Joe Hertler, Joe Russo, and so many more.

900 shows in 12 years has made the band tighter than ever- and with 4 studio albums and over 100 original songs under their belt- every set is a unique and fresh surprise for both longtime fans and new…

Ypsi's favorite legendary "anti-Valentine's Day" event, The 12th Annual Return of The Bloody Valentine features live musical performances, circus sideshow antics and tricks, plus other tawdry gimmicks!
Wear your best BLOOD!
Bloody costumes (or whatever) are encouraged!
Doors at 7pm, performance at 9pm
LIVE Bands:
Black Jake & the Carnies aka "The Original Kings of Crabgrass" (a unique style of original bluegrass sprinkled with a little spaghetti western, punk, and Vaudeville that people love to dance and get wild to); LEGENDARY.
https://blackjakeandthecarnies.…