Mark Stone

A big thank you to everyone who came out last month to celebrate International Peace Day with the Stone Sound Collective! It was a beautiful event. 

I'm happy to share that at the end of this month I will be…

Stone Sound Collective - International Peace Day Concert

Oakland University, Varner Recital Hall

Saturday, September 21, 2018 at 8 p.m.

Established by a United Nations resolution in 1981, the International Day of Peace  provides a “globally shared date for all…

For the past two years I've had the great honor of hosting Dr. James Isabirye while he pursued a Ph.D. in Music Education at Oakland University. James has completed his program, writing a brilliant dissertation on his work in Uganda…

Saturday, 8/25 – Stone Sound Collective @ Pontiac’s Little Art Theatre – 8pm

Friday, 9/21 – Mark Stone, International Peace Day Concert @ Oakland University’s Varner Recital Hall – 8pm

I just returned from beautiful Quito, Ecuador where I took…

Wednesday 7/18 – Stone Sound Collective @ Nardin Park Music Series, Farmington Hills – 8pm

Saturday, 7/21 – Stone Sound Collective “Sow the Seeds of Community” @ Rochester Municipal Park, Kiwanis Pavilion –1pm

Sunday, 7/22 – Bernard Woma Michigan…

Saturday, 6/16 – Stone Sound Collective @ Music Hall’s Detroit Music Weekend – 5pm, Lear Stage

Sunday, 6/24 – Bernard Woma NYC Memorial @ ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn – 5pm

Wednesday 7/18 – Stone Sound Collective @ Nardin Park…

Thursday, 4/5 - OU Percussion Ensembles with Sam Jeyasingham @ OU Varner Recital Hall - 8pm

Friday, 4/13 - OU World Music Ensembles with Robert Chappell @ OU Varner Recital Hall - 10am & 8pm 

Sunday, 4/15  जगृथि (Jagrithi -…

 Saturday, 1/27 - Soul Food @ OU Varner Recital Hall - 7pm 

While honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., we are reminded that, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” Similarly, in the Baha’i tradition…

Friday, 12/8 - Oakland University World Music Concert                                     @ OU Varner Recital Hall - 8pm

Saturday, 12/9 - Community Drum Workshop and Concert                        @ Pontiac Creative Arts Center - 2pm & 4pm 

It was a blast catching up with so…

Boom! Just like that summer is long gone and we are in the middle of October. I had a blast this past summer (winter in South Africa) performing and adjudicating at the International Marimba and Steelpan Festival in Johannesburg, together…

Saturday, 7/8 - 7:30pm Wes Dyring with Mark Stone and Friends                               @ Baha'i Center of Washtenaw County 

7/29 to 7/30 - Education Africa's International Marimba & Steelpan Festival, Johanessburg SOUTH AFRICA

Wesley Dyring (violist in the Seattle Symphony) and I…