Photo: Bruce Turner Photography
Musique Noire. L to R: Michelle May, Leslie Deshazor, JoVia Armstrong, Leah Celebi. Photo: Bruce Turner Photography
Musique Noire performing at the Detroit Institute of Art's "Friday Night Live" July 2019
Musique Noire performing at the Detroit Institute of Art's "Friday Night Live" July 2019
The Nina Strings: a trio of Detroit string players led by Michelle May
The Nina Strings, in a collaboration with the Big Red Wall Dance Company, provided a live soundtrack to a powerful piece depicting Black women's relationship to nature, entitled "Brown on Green". Presented by Sidewalk Detroit in Eliza Howell Park. Photo by SpiltSugar Photography.
The Nina Strings, in a collaboration with the Big Red Wall Dance Company, provided a live soundtrack to a powerful piece depicting Black women's relationship to nature, entitled "Brown on Green" (September 2019). Presented by Sidewalk Detroit in Eliza Howell Park. Photo by Split Sugar Photography
The Nina Strings, in a collaboration with the Big Red Wall Dance Company, provided a live soundtrack to a powerful piece depicting Black women's relationship to nature, entitled "Brown on Green" (September 2019). Presented by Sidewalk Detroit in Eliza Howell Park. Photo by Split Sugar Photography
Michelle May speaking about the dance/strings collaboration as part of "Brown on Green" (September 2019) Photo by Split Sugar Photography
Michelle performed as part of the string section of the Detroit stop of Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life" Tour (November 2015)
Michelle was awarded a prestigious 2018 Kresge Artist Fellowship award, funded by Kresge Arts in Detroit, a program of the Kresge Foundation. Photo of the 2018 Fellows in Music, Theatre, and Film: Noah Stephens
Michelle was an invited performer at the June 2019 Kresge Artist Fellows' celebration. The Kresge Artist Fellowships are awarded by Kresge Arts in Detroit, a program of the Kresge Foundation. Rydell Smith: guitar. Photo by Kate Gowman
Picture by J Cross Fotography
Michelle in rehearsal with the Sphinx Symphony, preparing for the 2013 Sphinx Competition (February 2013)
In 2008, Michelle founded a teaching group for adult recreational string players, called "The Violin Divas". This picture is from their 2019 performance at Noel Night in Detroit.
Photo by Bruce Turner Photography
Michelle performed with the "Sister Strings" project at the virtual 2020 Detroit International Jazz Festival.
Musique Noire. Seated L to R: JoVia Armstrong, Michelle May, Leah Celebi. Standing: Leslie DeShazor. Photo: Jeff Cross Photography
Photo: Jeff Cross Photography
Photo: Jeff Cross Photography
Photo: Bre'Ann White
L to R: Dr. Angela Celeste May and Michelle May of AM May & Associates, Inc. Photo: Bre'Ann White
L. to R. Michelle May and Dr. Angela Celeste May of AM May & Associates, Inc. Photo: Bre'Ann White
Photo: Bre'Ann White