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“Top of the Park”: Ann Arbor Summer Festival
See 14 Friday. Tonight in the KidZone: the U-M Office of Sustainability offers zero waste kids activities (5 p.m.). On the Power Center Lawn: capoeira (5:30 p.m.) with Mestre Lobinho. In the Annex tent: printmaking (5 p.m.) with Ann Arbor District Library staff. On the O&W Grove Stage: Detroit-based funk & soul singer (and trans activist) Baddie Brooks (5 p.m.), and local jazz singer-bassist Gwenyth Hayes (5:45 p.m.). On the Rackham Stage: Rod Wallace & Friends (6:45 p.m.). Local hip-hop MCs TBA rap over old school beats spun by local hip-hop impresario Wallace. Also, Dani Darling (8 p.m.), a local singer-guitarist who specializes in jazz-inflected psychedelic soul. The music is followed at 10 p.m. by a screening of Turning Red, Domee Shi’s 2022 animated comedy-drama about a teen girl who transforms into a giant red panda whenever she gets overly excited. 5 p.m.–midnight.
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