Observer Editor
“Top of the Park”: Ann Arbor Summer Festival
See 12 Friday.
Tonight in the KidZone: chalk drawing with popular local street artist David Zinn (5 p.m.), face painting (4 p.m.) by Colorful Events staff.
In the Annex Tent: “Found Magazine & Friends” (5 p.m.), an evening of offbeat talks, music, and activities. Hosted by award-winning Ann Arbor–bred director Davy Rothbart, cocreator of Found magazine.
On the Power Center Lawn: fitness activities (5:30 p.m.) led by SPENGA Ann Arbor staff.
On the O&W Grove Stage: Detroit-based soul singer-songwriter Jill Govan (4 p.m.), “Center Stage Strings” (5 p.m.), a program of chamber music by students attending a U-M music school summer program, and avant-garde Kalamazoo folk-soul singer-cellist Jordan Hamilton (6 p.m.).
On the Rackham Stage: Lady Sunshine & the X Band (7 p.m.), the popular local gospel-flavored blues band led by Lady Sunshine, a fiery, rich-voiced singer whose style blends elements of Aretha Franklin, Koko Taylor, and Denise LaSalle. The festival’s live music concludes, as it has for decades, with a set by George Bedard & the Kingpins (8:30 p.m.), a durably popular local rockabilly, blues, rock ’n’ roll, and honky-tonk band fronted by singer-guitarist Bedard.
The music is followed at 10 p.m. by a screening of It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra’s sentimental 1946 classic. Also, readings of the Declaration of Independence at 5:45, 6:45, & 8 p.m. in celebration of its upcoming 250th anniversary. 4–11 p.m.
https://www.a2sf.org/calendar/2026-06-28/
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