After working hard work all week, Ann Delisi’s Essential Music (ADEM) is your weekend destination for fun. Ann serves up a thoroughly hand-picked combination of great contemporary music and the classics you need to hear. ADEM features music made in Detroit, along with live in-studio performances, interviews and special features.
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Sept. 16, 2018 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Gayelynn McKinney describes her happy musical home as a kid and the dream in which her late father, Detroit Jazz legend Harold McKinney, visited her which was the catalyst for an album she had not planned to make
Sept. 16, 2018 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Rob St. Mary talks about this vibrant time in Detroit’s music history that paved the way for musicians to perform original material in the clubs as well as his efforts to create a website and compilation albums that tell Detroit’s Punk Rock story
Sept. 9, 2018 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
On this new album “What You See”, Bill Bynum and Co. cover everyone from Marvin Gaye to Gladys Knight to Bill Withers
Sept. 9, 2018 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
The theme for Focus Hope’s photography is Detroit: Past, Present and Future featuring amateur and professional photographers
Aug. 29, 2018 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Wayne Kramer and Don Was talk with Ann Delisi about Wayne new book “The Hard Stuff” and Don’s priceless story about almost signing the Queen of Soul to Blue Note Records
Aug. 26, 2018 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
These two jazz artists will be the first Detroit Jazz Festival Resident Ensemble as they highlight the music of Geri Allen, their friend and collaborator who passed away last year
Aug. 26, 2018 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
In 1993, Paxahau used the internet to let the world know about Electronic Music being created in The Motor City and by 2006 they were producing Movement, an annual celebration of the music they wanted the world to hear
Aug. 12, 2018 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
As a member of the legendary Detroit rock band, the MC5, guitarist Wayne Kramer offers up a brutally honest assessment of himself, his drug abuse, being in prison and his recovery
Aug. 12, 2018 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
It’s been 7 years since Emily Rose put out an album and 3 of those years working on this new collection of songs. Her perfectionist approach to songwriting made it well worth the wait.
July 23, 2018 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Sister Pie owner, Lisa Ludwinski, talks about baking pies in her parents’ kitchen to setting up shop in West Village
