Michigan Songwriter Showcase hosted by Steve Taylor and featuring Maddy Ringo, Joel Raymond and Emily Slomovits
20 Front Street
January 15, 2026
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7:00 pm
$24.79
Steve Taylor graduated from Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music with a degree in Songwriting. After college, Steve returned home to Michigan and became a fixture in the Detroit music scene while earning a Master’s Degree in Music Theory from Wayne State University. Blending soulful music and intimate lyrics, Steve Taylor performs all over Michigan as a solo acoustic artist and with his band, The Steve Taylor Three. Their latest album “Temporary Heart” was released in 2024 all of their five albums is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, or wherever finer music is streamed. The band’s single, “Raining on Christmas”, won the Detroit Music Award for “Outstanding Country Recording” in 2023. “Temporary Heart” won the Michigan Music Award for Best American Album in 2025.
Since picking up a music career through busking on the streets of Toronto, Maddy Ringo has been a fresh voice in the timeless tradition of American folk music. The daughter of a born-and-bred Canadian and an American peacenik, Maddy learned the Rise Up Singing catalogue as a seven-year-old, laying her foundation in the works of Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and the like. Now, based in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan, she has made her way to the forefront of the Southeast Michigan folk scene with her multi-instrumental songwriting and rich mezzo vocals. Her latest album “People of the Earth and Sea” explores vivid narratives of nature, urbanism, love, and meaning in an ever-changing world.
Joel Raymond is a singer-songwriter from metro-Detroit that makes indie folk music with ambient atmospheres and heartfelt lyricism. He’s written and produced all of his work and is currently working on his next project “You”.
Emily Slomovits is an Ann Arbor-based freelance musician, theatre artist, teacher, and writer. She has studied violin and voice in classical, jazz and folk styles for over twenty years, and folk guitar for almost fifteen years. Emily plays music with her dad and uncle (San and Laz of the duo Gemini), with singer-songwriters Billy King and Jen Sygit as well as with many other musicians including Judy Banker, Billy Brandt, Annie and Rod Capps, and Jill Jack.
Emily has also been seen in many local theatre productions with The Encore Theatre, The Croswell Opera House, Spinning Dot Theatre, and The Dio. She helps to lead Spinning Dot Theatre’s youth company, and teaches private lessons in violin/fiddle, voice, guitar and ukulele.