Articles tagged:Ann Arbor Summer Festival

Posted: Sat May 26 7:37 a.m. by Will Stewart AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Bonnie Raitt treats Hill Auditorium crowd to powerful, emotional show

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 ...

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Posted: Tue May 22 2:45 p.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff
Chance to win free tickets to Feist at Power Center

AnnArbor.com and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival are partnering to offer readers a chance to win free tickets to Feist's upcoming concert at Hill Auditorium.

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Posted: Mon May 21 5:54 a.m. by Kevin Ransom AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Bonnie Raitt back in the spotlight, coming to Hill Auditorium for Ann Arbor Summer Festival

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 ...

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Posted: Sun May 20 5:56 a.m. by Martin Bandyke AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Robb Woulfe discusses his background and the upcoming Ann Arbor Summer Festival

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 ...

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Posted: Sat May 19 6:46 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff
Deadline for chance to win free Bonnie Raitt tickets is Monday

AnnArbor.com and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival are partnering to offer readers a chance to win free tickets to Bonnie Raitt's upcoming concert at Hill Auditorium.

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Posted: Tue May 8 8 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff
Top of the Park 2012 schedule released by Ann Arbor Summer Festival

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival today announces the 2012 season schedule for Top of the Park, the festival's free outdoor component.

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Posted: Tue Mar 27 8 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff
Summer Festival announces lineup: Feist, Al Green, Esperanza Spalding and more

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival, now celebrating its 29th season, today announced the headlining indoor lineup for its 2012 season, running from June 15 to July 8.

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Posted: Wed Feb 22 10:10 a.m. by Chris Asadian Photographer
Images from Ann Arbor Summer Festival's Big Top Revue

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 ...

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Posted: Thu Feb 16 10:32 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff

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 ...

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Posted: Tue Jan 17 6:01 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff
Ann Arbor Summer Festival announces a chance to help choose Top of the Park movies

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival announces the return of Pick-a-Flick, an online promotion that lets the public choose the outdoor movies that will be shown as part of this year’s festival season, which runs June 15 through July 8. Now through March 1, the festival is asking the community to ...

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Posted: Tue Aug 30 10:08 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff
Summer Festival video compresses three and a half weeks of fun into three and a half minutes

Looking for a final taste of summer? The Ann Arbor Summer Festival wrapped up its yearly run last month, but it has just released a new time-lapse video looking back on the season. The video, created by Seth McCubbin for the festival, includes images of Top of the Park, the ...

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Posted: Sat Jul 16 5:41 a.m. by Ann Dwyer
Ticket sales, on-site donations rise for the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, but organizers still seeking contributions

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 ...

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Posted: Mon Jul 11 7:49 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Top of the Park closes out the season with a final night of fun

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:

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Posted: Sun Jul 10 5:55 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff
George Bedard and the Kingpins, 'Footloose' on the big screen highlight the last day

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 ...

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Posted: Sun Jul 10 2:57 a.m. by Roger LeLievre AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Pink Martini, with substitute vocalist Lucy Woodward, intoxicates Ann Arbor Summer Festival crowd

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 ...

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