Observer Editor
“Top of the Park”: Ann Arbor Summer Festival
See 12 Friday.
Tonight in the KidZone: noncompetitive kids games (5 p.m.) led by Kidokinetics staff.
In the Annex Tent: “Nerd Nite” (7 p.m.), a popular Ann Arbor District Library event featuring several speakers TBA who give fun yet informative 20-minute talks about things that interest them, everything from the science of solar cells to the genealogy of Godzilla.
On the Power Center Lawn: an Afrobeat and Latin dance workout (5:30 p.m.) by World Dance Workout.
On the O&W Grove Stage: the local acoustic folk-rock duo Billy & Emily (5 p.m.).
On the Rackham Stage: The veteran local 9-piece ska & funk collective Hullabaloo (6:30 p.m.), and Peter Madcat Ruth’s C.A.R.Ma. Quartet (8:15 p.m.), an all-star ensemble led by world-renowned veteran local harmonica wiz Ruth that plays an eclectic mix of traditional and improvisational music. Also, two 30-minute family-friendly shows by Flip Fabrique (5:45 & 7:30 p.m.), a French-Canadian circus troupe that performs acrobatics and other stunts on top of a mini bus.
The live entertainment is followed at 9:45 p.m. by screenings of Martha Barron Griffith’s short film Menders, a prize-winner at this year’s Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Sleepless in Seattle, Nora Ephron’s 1993 rom-com about a recently engaged woman who becomes obsessed with meeting a widower she hears on a call-in radio show. 5–11 p.m.
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