Detroit's Carr Center will kick off its 2018-2019 performance season Nov. 3 with "Season: Spectacular" at the Ford Theater of Performing Arts at Midtown's Detroit School of Arts.
"Season: Spectacular" will include performances from a dazzling range of African-American music and dance stars, both local and national.
Among them will be jazz legends and Grammy-award winners Dee Dee Bridgewater and Terri Lyne Carrington. Both women sing, though Carrington is also renowned for her drumming and percussive skills.
The two are also now co-artistic directors at the center.
"Dee Dee and Terri Lyne have put a very special season together," said Carr Center President Oliver Ragsdale Jr., one he said will advance the Carr's mission to present and promote African and African-American cultural arts.
Also on tap Nov. 3 will be opera great George Shirley, the first African-American tenor cast in a leading role with the New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Tap legend Savion Glover is on the program as well, as are visual artist Carrie Mae Weems, a 2013 MacArthur "genius" grantee, and The Gathering Orchestra with lead jazz-man Rodney Whitaker.
Finally, organizers promise "a special message" from dancer and choreographer Debbie Allen, whose credits include choreographing the Academy Awards an astonishing 10 times.
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'Season: Spectacular'
Ford Theater of Performing Arts
123 Selden, Detroit
7:30 p.m. Nov. 3
$30 general admission
(313) 965-8430
thecarrcenter.org
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