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FoolMoon
This annual outdoor festival features a vast array of huge, quirky, and beautiful handmade illuminated sculptures as well as interactive installations, a beer tent, and more. All invited to drum on pots and pans and dress in homemade illuminated costumes to welcome spring in the spirit of this year’s theme, “Rhythm & Fools.” A parade departs from the corner of Washington & Ashley at 8 p.m. and travels throughout downtown before returning for a street party with dancing and live music on 2 stages. On the Ashley St. Stage: Music by area teen acts, including an ensemble from the Community High Jazz Band, followed by performances by the winner and runner up of this year’s Neutral Zone Battle of the Bands. On the Washington St. Stage: A 3-hour set by the local funk band Stomp Committee. Paraders are invited to assemble at one of 3 “constellation stations”: the U-M Art Museum front lawn, the Kerrytown Farmers Market, and the Slauson Middle School parking lot. Many Kerrytown, Main St., and State St. merchants are open late tonight. Limited luminary-making kits available for purchase at Downtown Home and Garden on S. Ashley, ACE Barnes Hardware on W. Stadium, Gutman Gallery on N. Fourth Ave., and Found Gallery in Kerrytown. 8–11 p.m., Downtown Ann Arbor. Free. bit.ly/festifoolsstudio.
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