Observer Editor
“Top of the Park”: Ann Arbor Summer Festival
See 12 Friday.
Tonight in the KidZone: career night (5 p.m.) with Washtenaw Intermediate School District.
In the Annex Tent: “Being Black in America” (5 p.m.) an immersive installation by local artist Asha Jordan presented for the Washtenaw County Bicentennial by the Advisory Council on Reparations Community Engagement Committee.
On the Power Center Lawn: a Full Body Sculpt workout (5:30 p.m.) led by an Ann Arbor YMCA instructor.
On the O&W Grove Stage: Detroit singer-songwriter Lorian Janine (5 p.m.), and Schmaltz (5:50 p.m.), a local band with a repertoire of klezmer-funk originals and klezmer classics.
On the Rackham Stage: Al Bettis (6:45 p.m.), a Detroit singer-songwriter whose music blends jazzy acoustic guitar with thoughtful, complex R&B lyrics, and Jive Colossus (8 p.m.), a local 10-piece Afro-Caribbean, funk, rock, and blues dance ensemble with a killer horn section.
The music is followed at 9:45 p.m. by a screening of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, John Hughes’ beloved 1987 road movie/buddy picture about holiday travel gone awry.
5–11 p.m.
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