Bonnie Raitt turned the page on a four-decade-long mutual love affair with Ann Arbor on Friday, delivering a riveting performance that reduced a packed Hill Auditorium to an intimate coffee shop and served as a reminder of what a delightful performer Raitt has always been. Alternating between material from her ...
Bonnie’s back—refreshed and revitalized. In April, when Bonnie Raitt released her new “Slipstream” album, it had been seven years since her last studio record. After enduring many personal losses, starting in 2004, she decided she needed the break—to grieve, adjust, and just take some time for herself, after being one ...
Robb Woulfe, executive director of the 29th Ann Arbor Summer Festival, has put together a stunningly impressive array of performers who will be taking over Tree Town from June 15 through July 8, with mainstage shows featuring Al Green, Feist, Rufus Wainwright, Pilobolus, and Esperanza Spalding. The pre-season concert this ...
The Ann Arbor Summer Festival presented its third annual Big Top Revue on Tuesday at Gratzi as one of the festival's major fund-raisers. Photographer Chris Asadian captured these images. This year's festival—which features three and a half weeks of free, outdoor entertainment as well as indoor, ticketed shows—takes place June ...
On Tuesday, Febr. 21 at Gratzi, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival will present the Big Top Revue 3, a night of roaring 1920s revelry. This year's winter benefit has a speakeasy theme to it, boasting vintage jazz and electro-swing music, tap and Charleston dancers, gangsters and flapper girls, silent movie ...
Amococo. Lady Sunshine and the X-Band. k.d. lang. Strange Fruit. Tom Tom Crew. The Ann Arbor Summer Festival once again brought in diverse talent from around the world and around town. And festival-goers were quick to enjoy the shows and express their thanks. Inside of Amococo, a 10,000-square-foot network of ...
Top of the Park, the annual three-and-a-half-week celebration of music, movies, community and more sponsored by the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, wrapped up its 2011 season on Sunday, featuring the traditional festival closer, the great Ann Arbor guitarist George Bedard. Jeffrey Smith produced this time-lapse photography:
Today is Day 21—the final day!—of Top of the Park, the popular, free (donations welcome) outdoor happening featuring music, movies, kicking back, running into friends, and a variety of other attractions. Each day in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival—which presents Top of the Park as well as main-stage ...
Pink Martini publicity photo You have to have a little sympathy for Pink Martini, the West Coast band that’s wowed Ann Arbor Summer Festival crowds in two past appearances with its infectious blend of Brazilian samba, '30s Cuban dance, Parisian cafe sensibility and world-music flair. First, founding vocalist China Forbes ...