Observer Editor
“Top of the Park”: Ann Arbor Summer Festival
See 12 Friday.
Tonight in the KidZone: kids crafts (5 p.m.) led by Annie’s Children’s Center staff.
In the Annex Tent: guided telescope observing (all day) of the sun and nighttime sky led by Detroit Observatory staff. On the Power Center Lawn: an aikido workout with Rodger Park (5:30 p.m.).
On the O&W Grove Stage: local jazz singer-bassist Gwenyth Hayes (5 p.m.).
On the Rackham Stage: the horn-powered Motown/Memphis soul band Salmagundi (6:30 p.m.), and Dani Darling (8:15 p.m.), a local singer-guitarist who specializes in jazz-inflected psychedelic soul. With 30-minute family-friendly shows at 5:45 & 7:30 p.m. by Flip Fabrique (see 17 Wednesday listing). Also, at 7 p.m. in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, The Crossword Show, in which host Zach Sherwin presides as two guest comedians TBA solve a crossword puzzle live on stage, with everything displayed on a big screen.
The music is followed at 9:45 p.m. by screenings of Derek Taylor’s [Sun], a short film featured at this year’s Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s Oscar-winning 2025 supernatural horror film set in the 1930s Mississippi Delta.
5–11 p.m.
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