Visual and Performing Arts - NMU Events and Announcements

Visual and Performing Arts

The NMU Jazz Ensembles will present their second concert of the fall season on December 4th at 7:30 PM in Reynolds Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

Visual and Performing Arts

Join us on Thursday, November 21, 2024, for the NMU Orchestra's second concert of the fall season. The performance will take place at Reynolds Recital Hall and begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

Visual and Performing Arts

The NMU Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Professor James A. Strain, will present its annual fall semester concert on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 3:00 p.m., in Reynolds Recital Hall. The concert will be performed on standard percussion instruments such as marimbas, xylophones, bells, vibraphones, drums, cymbals, gongs, chimes and various ethnic instruments. The music will include a variety of musical styles, such as improvisatory African xylophone music, jazz, classical music transcriptions and arrangements of both Renaissance and twentieth century vocal music for marimba ensemble. In addition, several students will perform short percussion solos and small chamber ensemble music. There is no admission charge, and the concert will be live-streamed by the NMU School of Music, Theater, and Dance Broadcasting Network (subscription required), which can be found at https://smtdbroadcasting.nmu.edu.

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NMU's University Choir and Arts Chorale will perform their first concert of the 2024-2025 academic year on Sunday, October 20, 2024. The concert will take place in Reynolds Recital Hall and begins at 3:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

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The NMU Orchestra will present a concert entitled: String Masterworks: A tour through music history featuring works that contributed to the development of the String Orchestra. Individual movements from notable works will include the music of Corelli, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and more. Introductions about each composer and the time period of the piece will be provided by Marquette Regional History Museum historians. The concert will be conducted by substitute orchestra director, Janis Shier Peterson. Admission is free. 

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Experience The Trouble Notes as they blend traditional folk, gritty punk rock, and tribal dance music in a captivating performance on October 4, 2024, at 7:30 PM in Reynolds Recital Hall. Their global travels have infused their music with diverse influences you won't want to miss!

Find out more about this exciting group at: thetroublenotes.com

Visual and Performing Arts

Join us in welcoming the NMU Jazz Ensembles back to Reynolds Recital Hall for their first concert of the season. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and is free for everyone.

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The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center is excited to announce a performance by the folk-jazz fusion group, American Patchwork Quartet. The performance will take place on Saturday, September 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Forest Roberts Theatre. 

Tickets can be purchased online at tickets.nmu.edu. 
General Public - $20 adv./$22 door; NMU Students & under 18 - $10 adv./$12 door.

American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) is on a mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music. Comprised of four highly acclaimed artists, APQ showcases the dynamic diversity of contemporary culture by reimagining timeless songs from America's past.

American Patchwork Quartet (APQ), led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication, country twang, West African hypnotics, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ’s sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation, transcending culture, politics, and ideology.

You can view videos of the group performing here.

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Join us on October 10, 2024, at 6 PM for an engaging talk with the artist, Jack Deo, followed by a reception.

This historic photographic exhibition features local legends, friends, neighbors, and everyday heroes of the past. Gestures, expressions, clothing, props, and backdrops reveal rich narratives about the subjects, photographers, and the times. The portraits were taken in Upper Peninsula photo studios between 1890 and 1910 by photographers including Charles Cole and Brainard F. Childs at Childs Art Gallery in Marquette and Ishpeming; John William Nara at Nara Studio in Calumet; Gustav A. Werner at Werner Studio in Marquette and Ishpeming, and Theodore Sexton at Sexton Studio in Garden.

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Join us on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 5:30 PM for an artist talk and reception at the DeVos Art Museum, featuring Liz Ward and Robert Ziebell as they discuss their work on display.

Across Time and Place features Liz Ward and Robert Ziebell's recent multi-media approaches to interpreting and understanding place. Residents of Eagle Harbor, Michigan, and San Antonio, Texas, their works examine the nuance of place and focus on the richness of our world today and yesterday.

Robert Ziebell is an American artist who has worked in the field for over thirty-five years. Ziebell is a lens-based artist who bridges still and motion imagery to create new visual languages. Ziebell's work has been shown in numerous US museums, galleries, film festivals, and abroad.

Liz Ward is an American artist who works across various media, scales, and sites. Her work explores the meaning of landscape through layers of human, natural, and environmental history, memory, and experience. Ward has been in over two hundred group shows and has completed over thirty solo exhibitions in galleries, alternative spaces, and museums.