

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Brain Plasticity Ukulele Collective & BLUESHOUSE
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: A benefit for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Michigan

Ann Arbor’s Brain Plasticity Ukulele Collective is a proudly intergenerational group, sharing instruments, knowledge, kindness, and talent across eras. Instruments you might hear in the music of the collective include not only ukuleles but also guitar, flute, percussion, harmonica, accordion, mandolin, mandola, bass, piano, and melodica. The group is inspired by the idea that music cuts across diverse cognitive capabilities and resources, including numeracy, language, and space perception.

Mike Brooks, veteran blues guitar player/singer/songwriter from the UK has been playing guitar since the age of 10, and professionally since the age of 16. His musical career and accolades are many and varied, but include hitting the UK charts in 1979 (#28 on “the New Wave of British Heavy Metal” despite being a blues band), getting a cease and desist order from Walt Disney Corp for using a band name too close to that of a cartoon mouse, opening for bands such as the Yardbirds, the Animals, Wishbone Ash and Nine Below Zero, and playing in some of the most famous venues anywhere such as London’s Marquee, and, well, The Ark! In addition to leading BLUESHOUSE and fronting the Brain Plasticity Ukulele Collective, he also works with Ann Arbor’s youth at the Neutral Zone, a continuation of a youth music project begun in the UK called Electric896, which taught disengaged youth how to rock the blues.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ann-arbor/brain-plasticity-ukulele-collective-and-blueshouse/200029651935445
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, live-music
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://mutotix.umich.edu/6338?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=ann+arbor-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Ann Arbor
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104
- **lat**: 42.27903
- **long**: -83.74902
- **full address**: 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: The Ark - Ann Arbor (https://allevents.in/org/the-ark-ann-arbor/390501)

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: banner
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- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/3bf30cda736a4bb4cc433cc9eecbb63a28dffc5e3aad40ffec4aea723709b5bc-rimg-w300-h300-dc070607-gmir?v=1773533733

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Ark - Ann Arbor
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, entertainment, live-music
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Brain Plasticity Ukulele Collective & BLUESHOUSE ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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