From Detroit’s Bohemian National Home:

Wed. Oct. 8th: Baby Dee
Cleveland native Baby Dee is a transgender harpist/acordianist/pianistwho has prodigious skills on all three instruments. Classicallytrained, she has been a music director and organist in a Bronx , a circus side show act at Coney Island and eventually a memberof the Bindlestiff Family Circus.

After years in New York, Baby Deereturned to Cleveland and began performing music of her own composition, mixed with and inspired by tin palley and show tunes thatshe performs with particular zest. The tremendous musicality of BabyDee makes this much more than a quirky novelty act- there’s just a lotof eccentricity that goes with all that talent. Her collaborators have included Will Oldham, Andrew W.K. and Current 93. Her new release is on Drag City Records.
Doors at 8 pm; $5-10.

Friday Oct. 10th: Wierd Records New York City presents:Martial Canteral w/ Demons, Bad Party and Red Rot. DJ set by Wierd Records’ Pieter Schoolwerth
New York and Detroit collide in a night of industrial, no-wave and experimental music. New York’s Wierd Records artist Martial Canteral brings the next generation of industrial music that does away with all the corny elements of the genre and gets down to making serious machine music. Label kingpin Pieter Schoolwerth spins jams throughout the evening. Detroit is represented by two of its best populist experimental groups, Demons and Bad Party, as well as Red Rot, which is a new project to me.
Doors at 9 pm; $5.

Saturday, Oct. 11th: Eric Vloeiman’s Fugimundi
Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeiman is an award winning musician who is at home in traditional jazz, experimental jazz and funky, electric jazz ala 70’s era Miles Davis. His current group is the trio Fugimundi, with the surprising Anton Goudsmit on guitar and rising star Harmen Fraanje on piano. The trio performs acoustic chamber jazz. Its broad repertoire ranges from contemporary jazz, hymns, world music to occasional standards, all of which is presented with warmth and wit Vloeiman has worked with a range on artists as big as his interests, including: Han Bennink, Michael Moore, Mercer Ellington, Charlie Mariano, Joey Baron and The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Doors at 8 pm; $5-10.

Sunday, Oct. 12th: Shelly Short/Alexis Gideon
Sheely Short and Alexis Gideon perform quirky love songs that eschew typical instrumentation for more creative combinations that add some instrumental interest. The sound is not so far from some of the new directions in psyche-folk, but with more focus on hooks. From their myspace page: For her third album Shelley Short has assembled a collection of intimate songs, referring to them as ‘a diary of a barmy time that was 2006 and 2007”. Leaving Chicago in the wake of her widely praised Captain Wildhorse (Rides The Heart Of Tomorrow), Shelley jettisoned herband and took up residence in Los Angeles with her new love and sometime collaborator Alexis Gideon. There she picked up the pieces of a half-recorded(with Jamie Carter in Chicago) album and molded the collection into a coherent whole with recording engineer Raymond Richards. While mixing at their home in LA Short and Gideon wisely made Shelley’s voice the centerpiece throughout,lending a campfire glow to the album. Notwithstanding, Short is accompanied by veterans Rachel Blumberg (M Ward, Bright Eyes, Decemberists) on drums, Tiffany Kowalski (Bright Eyes) on violin, Gary James on bass, and Alexis Gideonoffering some clever guitar work.
Doors at 8 pm; $5.

Thursday, Oct. 16th: Eastern Seaboard, KBD
This night will expand as we get closer, but thus far we have two of the best younger generation groups playing creative improvised music. Eastern Seaboard have been regular visitors to Detroit (from the eastern seaboard), playing at places like Detroit Art Space and The Bohemian. A trio featuring bass, drums and reeds, these guys are known for wearing a few non-jazz influences on their sleeves. KBD is the non-idiomatic improvising collective from northern Ohio that has made the Bohemian their second home. More unrelated, exciting acts to come!

Friday, Oct.17th: Chris Moore and Sons
Former Detroiter and Songwriter / Multi-instrumentalist , Chris Moore (Negative Approach,Crossed Wire)
will bring his Brooklyn based band ‘Sons’ to Detroit for one show on October 17. Opening the night will be Four Hour Friends . Moore and Sons second cd release ‘Local Attachments’ comes on the heel’s of 2007’s ‘ Us Fools ‘ (4/5star review MOJO MAG) Attachments’ is a loose , eclectic folk/rock collection built on Moore’s sturdy songwriting chops. (Songwriter of the year, Metro times/Detroit Monthly 1993,1994,1995 . Awarded Abe Olman scholarship by Ascap and BMI in 2001, and runner-up Musicians Atlas/Border’s Music Awards in 2005).

Coming soon:
Thollem McDonas residency
Eugene Chadbourne