After working hard 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.
May 11, 2019 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Shara Nova is a classically trained vocalist with classical, rock, electronic and chamber music influences and for her latest album she draws from artists in Detroit including The White Stripes, Patti Smith, Anita Baker and Smokey Robinson
April 24, 2019 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Chef Laura Romito created salt blends created with the tastes that your tongue recognizes to help you create better tasting food
April 16, 2019 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Aretha Franklin loved opera. She became a board member of the Motor City Lyric Opera and it was one of its members who became The Queen of Soul’s vocal coach, preparing her to perform Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma”
April 16, 2019 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Music writer, Gary Graff, talks about producing the Detroit Music Awards for the 28th year, the artists who will perform and the tribute to the Queen of Soul
April 8, 2019 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Their third book on the art of charcuterie titled “Pate Confit Rillette” demystifies this culinary art form and the dinners at FRAME in Hazel Park on May 8th will challenge a team of accomplished chefs to create dishes inspired by recipes in the book.
March 17, 2019 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
After turning in stunning performances with Black Women Rock and The Don Was All-Star Revue, Steffanie Christi’an celebrates her new album, “Complicated” by headlining a show at Otus Supply on March 30th
March 16, 2019 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
It’s been 50 years since the legendary rock music magazine, Creem, emerged from Detroit’s Cass Corridor and shook things up. This documentary tells the story of its founder, Barry Kramer, the writers and the musicians they wrote about
March 15, 2019 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Guitarist Sean Blackman, Bassist James Simonson and Percussionist Larry Fratangelo have all played with some of the world’s most accomplished musicians and have now taken up residencies at clubs in Detroit and Royal Oak
Feb. 17, 2019 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Gabriel Currie discusses the art of guitar making and working with artists to create a guitar they will want to play
Feb. 11, 2019 on Ann Delisi's Essential Music
Gabriel Currie tells the story of being a teenager, being mentored by Leo Fender and the guitar template he found that became the prototype for the guitars he would make
