SUN RA, JOHNNY WINTER, DR. JOHN, THE STOOGES

The ageless SUN RA (who claims never to have been born) and his fifteen-piece Astro-Infinity Arkestra (it carries you away with it) will unite with the people of Detroit and Michigan for the last time in a while this weekend. His three weeks in Michigan have taken his music to the Grande Ballroom, in his first major ballroom engagement following the cover story on Sun Ra in Rolling Stone; to Ann Arbor’s community center, Canterbury House, for two days; the free West Park concerts last Sunday with the MC5, UP, Craack, Rationals, and other people-oriented bands; and the Ann Arbor Armory for a Liberated Territory Dance with the MC5.

Sun Ra, the master musician and orchestrator of cosmic sound brings with him a band the nucleus of. which has been living and working together for over ten - years. The Astro-Infinity Arkestra has been experiencing itself as a totally united community of musicians for many years, and they have grown organically all along the way. Together. They represent and are a whole new universe of sound and color, energy and motion, and theirs is a music completely unique on this planet, which Sun Ra constantly offers to leave “if things don’t start getting better.”