Wow, it’s been an intense two weeks since my last blog post here at Detroit Metro Mashup. First, let me thank everyone who has come to detroitmm.com and checked out our coverage and all of you who have “liked” us on Facebook and told your friends. It’s been two weeks since my last post because we have covered so many events, and this is going to be a short one because we’re off to cover the Detroit Music Awards at the Fillmore Theater (formerly the State) in Detroit this evening.

During the past two weeks, in addition to refining the website, updating our techniques, getting some new equipment, and trying to find time to eat and sleep, we’ve photographed and reported on the Pontiac DIA Inside | Out, the Detroit Art Deco Society’s Peacock Room Bubble Bar, the Goldner Walsh William Cowger gallery exhibit, the Historic Fort Wayne Coalition Spring Flea Market, the Pure Michigan Governor’s Conference on Tourism, and Culture Lab Detroit! Everything is up on the website except the Culture Lab Conversation and we’ll get both this and the Music Awards coverage up during this weekend. So check back.

We haven’t been to the Detroit Music Awards in a few years and we are really stoked about getting to cover it for Detroit Metro Mashup. It is always a hugely intense event, frequented by the cream of metro Detroit’s crop of fabulous musicians. Motown made Detroit famous for music and the quality of the musicians since that time has not diminished. Rather the range of high quality music has expanded, with everything from R&B, rock, and pop at our roots to techno, hip-hop and rap, exploding in the Detroit culture and putting the D back on the musical map. The arts are vibrant and alive in Detroit and the music is no exception.

I’ve got to wrap this up and get to the Awards, but I’ll try to write more, sooner, as much as I can!

For more information about the Detroit Music Awards go to http://www.detroitmusicawards.com.

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster via Live Nation. Prices for remaining tickets range from $29 to $35.

The Doors open at 6:00 PM and the show begins at 7:00 PM.