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The genesis of blues music in Detroit occurred as a result of the first wave of the Great Migration of African Americans from the Deep South.In the 1920s, Detroit was home to a number of pianists who performed in the clubs of Black Bottom and played in the boogie-woogie style, such as Speckled Red, Charlie Spand, William Ezell, and most prominently, Big Maceo Merriweather.
Music has been the dominant feature of Detroit's nightlife since the late 1940s.The metropolitan area boasts two of the top live music venues in the United States. The Pine Knob Music Theatre (formerly DTE Energy Music Theatre), which was the most attended summer venue in the United States in 2005 for the fifteenth consecutive year, while the closed Palace of Auburn Hills ranked twelfth ...
MorningSide is an upper east side neighborhood in Detroit encompassing 2.875 square miles (7.45 km 2). It is characterized by red brick tudors with wide streets. Van Steuban / Osborn: In May 2007, Osborn had about 37,000 residents, mostly middle income. In a period before May 2007 Osborne's population grew by 11%, a rarity in Detroit neighborhoods.
Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
Getty Images Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others.
Detroit's performance centers and theaters emanate from the Grand Circus Park Historic District and continue along Woodward Avenue toward the Fisher Theatre in the city's New Center. [2] The Detroit Opera House is located at Broadway and Grand Circus. The east necklace of downtown links Grand Circus and the stadium area to Greektown along ...
Detroit's Michigan Central Station reopening puts historic Corktown on a new trajectory.
Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States.Locally, "downtown" tends to refer to the 1.4 square mile region bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south.