#MOTOWN MACDOWN 2012 FREE#Įntrance to the festival is free and customers buy food at each restaurant. The event is held every July in downtown Ferndale and is a branding event for the Metro Times. The Motown Macdown came next, a mac and cheese competition held in Ferndale, produced by Garden Fresh Salsa as a fundraiser for Justin's Vision (so both branding AND charity event). This is held every December last year was the second annual event held at an at-capacity One-Eyed Betty's. One ticket price gets you tastes of all of the chefs' creations and a few other treats.īaconfest Michigan was third at the gate, launched in 2012. ( Note: I am no longer involved with this due to a difference in opinion regarding the direction of the festival.) This event is exactly what it sounds like: all bacon. Held every June at the Royal Oak Farmers Market, one ticket price gets you a few drink tickets and free-for-all access to all of the bacon in the room. While there is a charity component to the festival, this one falls under the "enterprising new festival producers" category. Now in its second year at Eastern Market, if you have somehow managed to NOT hear about this I am truly impressed. If I were to make a "most annoyingly aggressive social media marketing campaign," this one would receive top honors. So.congratulations? The good news is it actually works (media loves a good press release that takes the work part out of work), and apparently they got a huge turnout last year they weren't quite expecting. Ferndale – Motown Macdown is a macaroni and cheese throwdown amongst Detroit's finest chefs benefiting Justin's Vision.This year's event is this Saturday at Eastern Market from 11 a.m. Set amidst the front room of Dino's Lounge on the evening of Thursday, December 8th, six of Detroit's legendary chefs will demonstrate their culinary prowess with a soulful classic: macaroni and cheese. We're talking about the kings of mac, the cheese to our macaroni, the crème de la crème, the pioneers of comfort foods including macaroni mavens Chef and CEO Jack Aronson of Garden Fresh Salsa, Chef Brian Polcyn of Forest Grill, Chef Matthew Baldridge of Cliff Bells, Brian Perrone of Slows BBQ, the Hungry Dudes, and Chef Chris Franz of the Rattlesnake Club.īe prepared to engage all of your senses: not only will you get the chance to enjoy the most macked mac from Detroit's elite, the choir from the Imported from Detroit commercials is going to kick off the challenge with a soulful version of Lose Yourself. As rich as visiting an art gallery and as stimulating as a good massage, the event is sure to dazzle.THE BOOTLEG FILES: MOTOWN 25 – YESTERDAY, TODAY, FOREVERīOOTLEG FILES 410: “Motown 25 – Yesterday, Today, Forever” [[1983 TV special featuring Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye and the Supremes). LAST SEEN: The full show is available in a six-part installment on YouTube.ĪMERICAN HOME VIDEO: A VHS version was released, but no official DVD version has appeared. REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: The lack of a DVD release may be tied to problems with the clearance of music and performance rights.ĬHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: It is possible. On March 25, 1983, California’s Pasadena Civic Auditorium was home to a one-shot TV special that reunited several of the major stars of the Motown record label. The resulting production was called “Motown 25 – Yesterday, Today, Forever” and it is mostly remembered for two sequences: the extraordinary performance of a non-Motown song and a smackdown between the members of one of Motown’s most celebrated acts.īeyond those legendary moments, however, “Motown 25 – Yesterday, Today, Forever” was a fairly mundane production that offered a bumpy celebration of the record label’s illustrious history. The show got off to a bad start with an opening number featuring the Lester Wilson Dancers performing a cheesy interpretation of “Dancing in the Street.” The show’s host, a visibly ill-at-ease Richard Pryor, followed them by reading his lines off a TelePrompTer with wide-eyed discomfort. Pryor lamely joked about the star-studded evening by claiming, “I’ve seen stars and I’ve seen studs.”įor those looking to enjoy a memory lane stroll, “Motown 25” provided a reunion of The Miracles, who performed a medley of four of their classic tunes, and Stevie Wonder performing a medley of six of his top-charting songs. In both cases, the presentations seemed perfunctory, as if none of the singers were too eager to revisit their classic work. Nostalgia addicts were equally out of luck in a “battle of the bands” featuring The Four Tops and The Temptations – neither group seemed to be in top spirit for the show. Marvin Gaye, who had a bitter break-up with Motown years earlier, was not originally scheduled to perform.
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