Detroit’s 31st annual Concert of Colors celebrates community, culture and diversity
DETROIT, MI (JULY 18, 2023) — Starting on July 19th and running through until the 23rd is Detroit’s 31st annual Concert of Colors festival, a free diversity-themed music festival hosted in metro Detroit.
This week-long festival is open to the public and over the years has become a uniting and celebratory summer event. The goal of the Concert of Colors is to create dialogues surrounding freedom of expression and welcoming all through music and dance from around the world.
Festival attendees can expect to see dozens of performances from artists including Julian Marley, twice Grammy-nominated singer and son of Bob Marley, Jessica Care Moore, the Arab National Orchestra, Thornetta Davis and many other talented performers with a variety of musical styles.
A major focus of the Concert of Colors is world music, including the indigenous music of the Motor City, but attendees can also expect to see and enjoy ethnic food, merchandise vendors, movies, poetry, children’s activities and more.
As of 2019, the Detroit Institue of Arts has served as the mainstage for the Concert of Colors, with other performances both indoors and outdoors at Metro Detroit’s cultural institutions such as the Scarab Club and Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. In recent years, the attendance at this colorful and upbeat event has totaled more than 30,000.
Housed in Culture Source, this event brings together 150 arts organizations in Southeast Michigan to bring together diversity, talent, and people of Detroit as an impactful large-scale arts festival of the Midwest.
“Detroit’s annual Concert of Colors is a phenomenal representation of our welcoming and diverse community,” says Chris Moyer, Senior Director of Communications, Visit Detroit. “As a free family-friendly event, we are always excited for Detroiters and visitors to experience our region’s indelible impact on global music.”
It is produced by the Concert of Colors with partners Culture Source, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, ACCESS, University of Michigan – Detroit Center, Michigan Science Center, Detroit Historical Museum, College For Creative Studies, Hellenic Museum of Michigan, Third Man Records, Lowriders of Detroit, Science Gallery Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Midtown Inc., University of Michigan Dearborn, Arab American National Museum, WDET, The Scarab Club, International Institute of Metro Detroit and Marx Layne & Company.
For more information, please contact:
Christopher Moyer, Senior Director of Communications, Visit Detroit — cmoyer@visitdetroit.com
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About Visit Detroit:
Visit Detroit is a private, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to market and sell the metropolitan Detroit area on a worldwide basis as a destination for leisure and business travel including conventions, trade shows, corporate meetings, tours and incentive travel to maximize additional visitors, visitor expenditures, state and local tax revenues and job opportunities.
More than 700 businesses are represented in Visit Detroit’s membership. Visit Detroit was founded in 1896 as the world’s first convention and visitors bureau. visitdetroit.com
