Concert of Colors

Each summer, the Concert of Colors transforms cultural institutions across metropolitan Detroit into vibrant epicenters of free music, dance, foodways, and community dialogue—and now, through strategic partnerships with community-based organizations, it extends that energy from February through November with neighborhood cultural music programs throughout the city. Founded in 1993 by Ismael Ahmed and the New Detroit coalition, the festival has grown into one of the nation’s largest and longest-running free global music festivals and proudly anchors the annual Forum on Community, Culture & Race.