Hooray for Hollywood! with Tyler Driskill & Friends: A salute to Harry Warren, Richard Whiting & the songwriters of the great 1930s movie musicals
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One of 31 upcoming events at Kerrytown Concert House, and 559 across Ann Arbor.
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