Calendar of Events

Pop, Rock, Jazz, and Blues

Monday June 2009

"Music in the Park": Herb David Guitar Studio.

June 1-Oct. 31 (tentative). Musical entertainment by a variety of local performers TBA. Liberty Plaza, E. Liberty at S. Division. Free. 665-8001.

Tuesday June 2009

"Music in the Park": Herb David Guitar Studio.

June 1-Oct. 31 (tentative). Musical entertainment by a variety of local performers TBA. Liberty Plaza, E. Liberty at S. Division. Free. 665-8001.

Wednesday July 2009

"Music in the Park": Herb David Guitar Studio.

June 1-Oct. 31. Musical entertainment by a variety of local performers TBA. Liberty Plaza, E. Liberty at S. Division. Free. 665-8001.

"Top of the Park": Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Through July 5. A beloved summer tradition continues this year on Ingalls Mall and features music by local, area, and national bands. The music is followed at 10 p.m. (Sun.-Thurs.) by free movies and at 10:30 p.m. (Fri.) by dancing to DJs. Also, a KidZone tent (6:30-8 p.m.) with hands-on activities for kids. Food concessions from area restaurants. Tonight: Hot Club of Detroit (7 p.m.), a popular jazz quartet that plays in the style of the great Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. Followed at 10 p.m. by 2 short films and The Triplets of Belleville, Sylvain Chomet's 2002 animated film, at once goofy and frightening, about 3 aged eccentric female music hall stars who befriend an old woman and her dog as they help her search for her kidnapped grandson. Tonight is also "Bike Night." Attendees are encouraged to bike to Ingalls Mall. The Summer Festival also includes a series of Power Center and Hill Auditorium shows on July 1-4 (see listings). Ingalls Mall at Washington. Free. 994-5999.

CANCELED: Jose Gonzalez: Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Grammy-winning Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist of Argentinian descent who is best known for his minimalist pop-folk cover of The Knife's "Heartbeats." "Gonzalez has a reassuringly airy voice and the intricate finger-picking of a leftfield jazz aficionado," says a Pitchfork review of his 2007 album In Our Nature. "Thoughtful and atmospheric." Opening act is Alice Russell, an English R&B and jazz chanteuse who's been compared to Amy Winehouse. Power Center. Tickets $20-$35 in advance at the Michigan League Ticket Office & annarborsummerfestival.org, and (if available) at the door. To charge by phone, call 764-2538. 994-5999.

Thursday July 2009

"Bank of Ann Arbor Sonic Lunch": Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce

. Every Thurs. except July 16. Musical entertainment by local performers. Today: Red Arrow Highway, a versatile local folk-rock band led by singer-guitarist Theo Katzman and singer-bassist Andrew Kratzat. Liberty Plaza, E. Liberty at S. Division. Free. 214-0109.

Gifts of Art: U-M Hospitals.

Every Thurs. Performances by area and guest artists. Today: 19th-century music by the Dodworth Saxhorn Band. U-M Hospital lobby, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr. (off Fuller). Free. 936-ARTS.

"Top of the Park": Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Through July 5. A beloved summer tradition continues this year on Ingalls Mall and features music by local, area, and national bands. The music is followed at 10 p.m. (Sun.-Thurs.) by free movies and at 10:30 p.m. (Fri.) by dancing to DJs. Also, a KidZone tent (6:30-8 p.m.) with hands-on activities for kids. Food concessions from area restaurants. Tonight: That 1 Guy (8:30 p.m.), the stage name of Mike Silverman, a Berkeley-based classically trained bassist who has created his own instrument, the "Magic Pipe," a "system of electronically wired steel plumbing, shaped somewhat like a harp, with a thick bass string wired from top to bottom and a hole that billows smoke during the climax of his live shows," according to his website. Opening act is Strange Arrangement (7 p.m.), a progressive indie rock quartet from Chicago. The music is followed at 10 p.m. by Quantum of Solace, Marc Forster's 2008 James Bond flick about 007's quest to stop an alleged environmentalist from taking control of a large chunk of Bolivia. Daniel Craig. Ingalls Mall at Washington. Free. 994-5999.

"Dean & Britta: 13 Most Beautiful...Songs from Andy Warhol's 'Screen Tests'": Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, former members of the indie pop band Luna, sing dream pop tunes set to 13 of Warhol's rarely seen 16 mm short films that include shots of a young Dennis Hopper, Lou Reed, and other stars. The project, commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), has been called "a perfect pairing" with "haunting, seductive scores." Power Center. Tickets $20-$30 in advance at the Michigan League Ticket Office & annarborsummerfestival.org, and (if available) at the door. To charge by phone, call 764-2538. 994-5999.

Friday July 2009

"Music in the Park": Herb David Guitar Studio.

June 1-Oct. 31. Musical entertainment by a variety of local performers TBA. Liberty Plaza, E. Liberty at S. Division. Free. 665-8001.

Summer Concert Series: Dexter Area Chamber of Commerce.

Every Fri, June 5-Aug. 28. A variety of local and area bands. For weekly schedule, see dexterchamber.org. Monument Park gazebo, downtown Dexter. Free. 426-0887.

"Top of the Park": Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Through July 5. A beloved summer tradition continues this year on Ingalls Mall and features music by local, area, and national bands. The music is followed at 10 p.m. (Sun.-Thurs.) by free movies and at 10:30 p.m. (Fri.) by dancing to DJs. Also, a KidZone tent (6:30-8 p.m.) with hands-on activities for kids. Food concessions from area restaurants. Tonight: Bugs Beddow Band (9 p.m.), a versatile Detroit ensemble led by trombonist Beddow that plays horn-driven R&B, boogie-rock, blues, and jazz. Opening act is Copper Box (7 p.m.), a Wisconsin quartet that plays an accordion-heavy mix of rock, polka, blues, and zydeco. The bands are followed at 10:30 p.m. by dancing to music spun by DJ Del Villarreal. Ingalls Mall at Washington. Free. 994-5999.

Crossroads Summer Festival.

Every Fri., June-Aug. Outdoor stage in downtown Ypsilanti with a variety of dance bands. (In case of rain, held in Club Divine, 25 North Washington.) Tonight: NoteWorthy, a local funk-soul band. Washington St. at Michigan Ave. Free. 717-7305.

"An Evening with Gladys Knight": Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

The "Empress of Soul" made her singing debut at age 7 when she won the Original Amateur Hour, but she's best known for her time with Gladys Knight & the Pips, when she recorded hits such as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "Midnight Train to Georgia," and "Neither One of Us." "She will torch you, blues you, swing you, and delight you," says a reviewer of her 2006 album Before Me. Hill Auditorium. Tickets $35-$65 in advance at the Michigan League Ticket Office & annarborsummerfestival.org, and (if available) at the door. To charge by phone, call 764-2538. 994-5999.

Saturday July 2009

"Music in the Park": Herb David Guitar Studio.

June 1-Oct. 31. Musical entertainment by a variety of local performers. Today: Sounds of the Czars, a local Tiki-flavored surf-rock lounge quartet. Liberty Plaza, E. Liberty at S. Division. Free. 665-8001.

"Top of the Park": Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

Through July 5. A beloved summer tradition continues this year on Ingalls Mall and features music by local, area, and national bands. The music is followed at 10 p.m. (Sun.-Thurs.) by free movies and at 10:30 p.m. (Fri.) by dancing to DJs. Also, a KidZone tent (6:30-8 p.m.) with hands-on activities for kids. Food concessions from area restaurants. Tonight: the gospel-flavored local blues ensemble Lady Sunshine & the X Band (9 p.m.). Opening act is the Dayton funk-rock band Magic Jackson (7 p.m.). Preceded at 5 p.m. by performances by musicians from the Ann Arbor Music Center's Rock Band School and the Sterling Heights acoustic pop duo Sunny Side Up. Ingalls Mall at Washington. Free. 994-5999.

Sunday July 2009

"Music in the Park": Herb David Guitar Studio.

June 1-Oct. 31. Musical entertainment by a variety of local performers TBA. Liberty Plaza, E. Liberty at S. Division. Free. 665-8001.

"Top of the Park": Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

See Through July 5. A beloved summer tradition continues this year on Ingalls Mall and features music by local, area, and national bands. The music is followed at 10 p.m. (Sun.-Thurs.) by free movies and at 10:30 p.m. (Fri.) by dancing to DJs. Also, a KidZone tent (6:30-8 p.m.) with hands-on activities for kids. Food concessions from area restaurants. Tonight: George Bedard & the Kingpins (7:30 p.m.), a popular local honky-tonk band that plays blues, rockabilly, swing, and roots music. Opening act is Madcat & Kane (5 p.m.), a nationally acclaimed local duo of world-class harmonica wizard Peter Madcat Ruth and ace fingerstyle blues guitarist Shari Kane. The music is followed at 10 p.m. by The Sound of Music, Robert Wise's perennially popular 1965 film adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, set in Austria on the eve of WW II, about the Von Trapp family's singing governess. Julie Andrews. Attendees are encouraged to dress in costumes inspired by the film and participate in the preshow contest & parade. Ingalls Mall at Washington. Free. 994-5999.

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