• Recap: Ben Folds ends Grand Rapids Pops summer season with evening of surprises Wednesday, Aug 8, 2018
  By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk - An evening with Ben Folds is full of surprises. The surprise at the Grand Rapids Symphony’s D&W Fresh Market Picnic Pops for the first-timers was when Folds&r...
• Recap: Tito Puente Jr., Grand Rapids Pops, turn Cannonsburg into ‘mambo mountain’ at D&W Fresh Market Picnic Pops Sunday, Aug 5, 2018
  By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk - Few people know the difference between mambo and salsa. Once the music starts, even fewer care. No matter which style percussionist Tito Puente Jr. and the Grand Rapids...
• Recap: Grand Rapids Pops and Mickey Thomas rock Cannonsburg with '80s Rewind' Monday, Jul 23, 2018
  By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk - When Mickey Thomas of Jefferson Starship first sang We Built This City in the 1980s, he was referring to rock 'n roll in San Francisco. When Thomas joined the Grand ...
• Recap: 2018 D&W Fresh Market Picnic Pops opens with fireworks, 'The 3 Maestros,' and an all-American experience Sunday, Jul 15, 2018
  By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk - Picnics are as American as baseball and apple pie. Grand Rapids Symphony’s Picnic Pops may be even more so. At the opening concerts of the 2018 D&W Fresh M...

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