Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble's 11-person band dropped a surprise appearance on NPR's popular Tiny Desk Concert series ...

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Detroit producer Don Was will receive an honorary degree at Wayne State and speak May 8 on music industry careers.

Musician and producer Don Was has returned to his hometown of metro Detroit. Was has formed a new nine-piece group, the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, which recently released its first album. The ensemble will ...

Six-time Grammy winner Don Was has had an illustrious career. As a producer, he won Album of the Year in 1989 with Bonnie Raitt; he has worked with mega stars including The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, ...

Don Was’ show with the Pan-Detroit Ensemble at Ardmore Music Hall on Wednesday was always going to be, in part, a tribute to the music of the Grateful Dead. Along with digging deep into the rugged, ...

Wayne State awards celebrated musician and filmmaker Don Was with a degree from the College of Fine, Performing and ...

Bassist/sonic scientist Don Was, whose new band, Don Was & the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, headlines Gates Concert Hall on January 29, isn’t a household name when it comes to the general public. But his ...

Tired of hearing the same holiday jazz playlist every December? This year, Jazz Night in America is doing Christmas differently. We're handing the reins to the ultimate crate-digger: Don Was, ...

When the jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard invited his friend, the musician-producer Don Was, to headline a night at a jazz series Blanchard was curating for the Detroit Symphony in 2024, ...

Don Was is a musician, a producer, a record label president, a radio host and a key figure in the music business going back to the 1970s. He's worked with everyone from Bob Dylan to Bonnie Raitt to ...

"We are on a mission to promulgate the indigenous sounds of our hometown of Detroit, Michigan," Don Was explains.