The Carr Center, Detroit's premiere Black arts resource and presenter celebrates it's 30th anniversary year with a truly blockbuster concert , "The Carr Center Presents... A Season Spectacular!" inside the Ford Theater for The Performing Arts @DSA

Led by the Carr Center's Artistic Director, three-time Grammy® Award-winning jazz musician and educator Terri Lyne Carrington, "A Season Spectacular" will be The Carr Center’s first LIVE concert event in more than a year.

As we open our doors to in-person live events, the safety of our staff, patrons and artists is of utmost importance. To that end we have adopted a number of protocols and policies to keep everyone safe.

PLEASE NOTE: Attendees to ALL LIVE Events from The Carr Center will be required to provide proof of vaccination. Mask wearing and social distancing will also be required.

The star-studded Season Spectacular will feature Ms. Carrington, herself along with a stellar cast of musicians, dancers, artists and more.

Other headliners will be the award-winning musician and composer, Patrice Rushen, who is one of the most sought after artists in the music industry. Patrice is a classically trained pianist who originally found success in the 70’s and 80’s with her signature fusion of jazz, pop and R&B and is now considered among the best jazz pianists in the world.

Joining them will be Brandee Younger, the sensational classically trained musician who plays the harp in the avant-garde tradition of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane and is known for expressive interpretations of traditional harp repertoire as well as her exciting new work with a diverse cross-section of musical talents, and...

Jazzmeia Horn, the young, gifted, twice Grammy® nominated jazz vocalist. Jazzmeia was the winner of the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition and the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition, she subsequently signed to Concord Records where she released her debut album A Social Call to great critical acclaim, and...

New York/Boston-based jazz pianist and composer, Kevin Harris. Harris plays a distinctive combination of traditional and contemporary music that seeks to celebrate the musical influences of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis intersecting with J.S. Bach, Scott Joplin, and the folkloric African rhythms of the Caribbean, and...

Carr Center Resident Artist and Director of the Gathering Orchestra ,Rodney Whitaker, an internationally renowned Mack Avenue recording artist, jazz bassist, professor of jazz double bass, director of Jazz Studies and artistic director for the Professors of Jazz at Michigan State University where he has built one of the most distinguished jazz degree programs and performing faculty in the United States. and...

Dance... and Art... and Film... and More!