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33rd Annual Concert of Colors

July 16 - July 21

FREE

The Concert of Colors is Metro Detroit’s free annual diversity-themed music festival. Global music at its finest at this colorful, festive, upbeat coveted summer event. Housed in Culture Source a coalition of 152 arts organizations in Southeast Michigan, the Concert of Colors has become the Midwest’s biggest diversity and arts festival.

The goal of the week-long festival is to unite metro Detroit’s diverse communities and ethnic groups through music and dance from around the world – and create dialogue where participants embrace freedom of expression.

Over its rich 33-year history, the festival has blossomed into a celebrated, beloved highlight of metro Detroit’s summer festival season- one of the few remaining large scale, free-admission music festivals in the area.

The Concert of Colors was established by Ismael Ahmed (host of This Island Earth) – the former head of the human services organization ACCESS – and New Detroit in 1993 as a one-day event at Chene Park on Detroit’s riverfront. The inaugural event drew a modest crowd to Chene Park, but by 1999, some 10,000 music lovers were coming out each year. The festival expanded to three days in 2001, when it was part of the official festivities for Detroit’s 300th birthday, drawing an audience of 100,000. In 2019, the concert expanded to nine days.

In addition to music, the Concert of Colors also offers global food and merchandise vendors, movies, poetry, children’s activities and much more.
 
The Concert of Colors is supported by WDET. Check out some of our highlights below or click here for the full 2024 lineup:
  • MC5 MUSICAL TRIBUTE on Friday, July 19, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Detroit Historical Museum. Hosted by Ann Delisi with Peter Werbe, Leni Sinclair, Don Was and Tino Gross and Band
  • DON WAS DETROIT ALL STAR REVUE: PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING on Sunday, July 21 8:00-9:30 p.m. at Detroit Institute of Arts – DFT. Featuring Don Was, Marshall Crenshaw, Steffanie Chris’ tian, Milton Bennet, Herschel Boone, Carolyn Striho, Corktown Popes, Gretchen Gonzalez Davidson, Julie Benjamin, Kara Meister, MIKE

*Plus, the WDET Street Team will be on the DIA South lawn on July 20 -21. Say hello to enter to win tickets to a future comedy show!

 
Click here for more information about the 2024 Concert of Colors and schedule.

Details

Start:
July 16
End:
July 21
Cost:
FREE
Website:
http://www.concertofcolors.com

Organizer

Concert of Colors