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Adam Sandler brings his You're My Best Friend Tour to Van Andel Arena on Friday, October 3rd, 2025.

Adam Sandler needs no introduction, he has found enormous success as an actor, producer, musician, and writer. His last tours in 2022 and 2023 were sold out. The 2024 Netflix special Adam Sandler: Love You was filmed over two days in sold-out concerts in Los Angeles. 100% Fresh, which was Sandler’s first comedy special in twenty years, was released by Netflix in 2018. Warner Bros Records also released the audio companions for both the Adam Sandler: Love You special and 100% Fresh. On screen, Sandler’s latest film, Happy Gilmore 2 debuted to 46.7 million views, the biggest Netflix US film opening ever. He can also be seen in Noah Baumbach’s film Jay Kelly this fall.

Tickets go on sale Friday, August 8th at 10:00AM. *Please note the box office will not be open for the on sale.

Ticket prices are subject to change. For current ticket prices visit Ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices may vary, as market pricing applies to all tickets. Prices may fluctuate based on supply and demand. Tickets may be purchased at the box office or on-line at Ticketmaster.com. Ages 16 +, mature audiences only.

Giorgi Gigashvili, piano

25-year-old Giorgi Gigashvili began learning piano with no intention of pursuing a professional career on the instrument. After a win on his home country of Georgia’s edition of “The Voice” at age 13, Gigashvili entered the Tbilisi State Conservatory to continue his keyboard studies with Revaz Tavadze. Early successes included First Prize at the Vigo International Piano Competition, with Martha Argerich as president of the jury, and 2nd Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. In the 2023/24 season, Gigashvili began studying with Gilmore Artist Kirill Gerstein at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He was selected as a BBC New Generation Artist 2023-2025 and has been nominated as an ECHO Rising Star for 2025/26 season. For his Gilmore recital, Gigashvili focuses on lyrical Romantic works by Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann. The program also includes Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 8, a masterwork of 20th-century keyboard literature and one of Prokofiev’s most important contributions to the genre.

Brandon Lake brings his King of Hearts Tour to Van Andel Arena on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 7:00PM.

With special guest Franni Cash.

Brandon Lake is a GRAMMY and GMA Dove Award-winning artist and songwriter. He lives with his wife, Brittany, and their three sons in Charleston, South Carolina. As a worship leader for gatherings around the nation, he has found his purpose in calling followers of Jesus into a posture of freedom and confidence - creating space to boldly declare truth and expect the miraculous. Through releasing his solo albums and collaborating with artists across the country he has taken home five GRAMMY Awards and been nominated for a total of twelve over the course of his professional music career. Believing that God has a unique and powerful purpose for each and every one of us, Lake longs to see individuals and families "live free and be everything that God has called them to be." His Little Lion Lungs book is one of many projects and resources to serve the home in discovering the powerful weapon of worship.

Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 24th at 10:00AM. *Please note the box office will not be open for the on sale.

Ticket prices are subject to change. For current ticket prices visit Ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices may vary, as market pricing applies to all tickets. Tickets are available on Ticketmaster.com. Prices may fluctuate based on supply and demand.

A Hero’s Life and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G

Flint Symphony Orchestra

Enrique Diemecke music director and conductor
Marika Bournaki piano

Program:
Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 (“A Hero’s Life”)

Imagine music as a mirror – what might one see in its reflection? For Strauss, he saw a hero as reflected in his unabashedly autobiographical and self-congratulatory tone-poem, Ein Heldenleben. For Ravel, who grew up in the culturally eclectic Basque region of France, his musical reflection revealed a fusion of cultural and modern influences that shaped his unique voice.

Pianist Marika Bournaki, hailed as “the Celine Dion of classical music,” will illuminate that fusion of cultures in Ravel’s Piano Concerto, which blends American jazz rhythms with colorful Spanish traditions of the Basques.

Join us at the J. Experience our nation’s longest-running Jewish book fair, an annual literary event that features prominent and emerging authors (from our community and from all over the world), and celebrates the global art of Jewish storytelling.

Join us at the J. Experience our nation’s longest-running Jewish book fair, an annual literary event that features prominent and emerging authors (from our community and from all over the world), and celebrates the global art of Jewish storytelling.

Join us at the J. Experience our nation’s longest-running Jewish book fair, an annual literary event that features prominent and emerging authors (from our community and from all over the world), and celebrates the global art of Jewish storytelling.

Join us at the J. Experience our nation’s longest-running Jewish book fair, an annual literary event that features prominent and emerging authors (from our community and from all over the world), and celebrates the global art of Jewish storytelling.

Join us at the J. Experience our nation’s longest-running Jewish book fair, an annual literary event that features prominent and emerging authors (from our community and from all over the world), and celebrates the global art of Jewish storytelling.

Join us at the J. Experience our nation’s longest-running Jewish book fair, an annual literary event that features prominent and emerging authors (from our community and from all over the world), and celebrates the global art of Jewish storytelling.