by The Carr Center | Oct 7, 2021 | Press Releases
Detroit’s Carr Center marks its 30th anniversary this season, returning from a nearly two-year hiatus from live performance and a focus on “the new.” “We never focused on when we might reopen,” said Carr Center President and CEO Oliver Ragsdale Jr. “We focused on what...
by The Carr Center | Oct 3, 2021 | Press Releases
Carr Center staffers were scoping out their new digs in Midtown Detroit when they had an “accident by divine order,” as director Oliver Ragsdale put it. At the Park Shelton on Woodward, the long-running Black arts organization had secured a former retail space to be...
by The Carr Center | Oct 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Announcing our 30th anniversary year of exciting events. Under the direction of Oliver Ragsdale, Jr., President, and CEO, and Artistic Director, three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and educator Terri Lyne Carrington, The Carr Center’s schedule begins in...
by The Carr Center | Sep 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Since its inception the legacy of Jazz has been transmitted across generations of musicians through mentors, seasoned veterans taking the “up and comers” under their wings , giving them an opportunity to learn and play together while creating new work and advancing...
by The Carr Center | Sep 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Marcus Turner received his MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A., cum laude, from The University of Cincinnati. He is a member of The Directors Guild of America and Local 52 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. His...
