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“Top of the Park”: Ann Arbor Summer Festival
See 13 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, and a performance by area children’s entertainer Copper Tom (4:30 p.m.). In the Annex Tent: “Still Life and Other Stories” at 7, 8, & 9 p.m. (see 27 Friday listing). On the Power Center Lawn: a Capoeira workout (5:30 p.m.) led by local capoeira instructor Mestre Lobinho. On the O&W Grove Stage: Timothy Monger (4 p.m.), an engaging Ypsilanti pop-rock singer-songwriter who plays dreamy, melodic indie pop with a hint of folk, and Alex Cuba (5 p.m.), a Cuban songwriter who moved to Canada in 1999 and sings in both English and Spanish. 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 guitar genius Bedard. The music is followed at 10 p.m. by a screening of Wicked, Jon M. Chu’s 2024 film adaptation of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s hit 2003 stage musical about the lives of 2 witches before Dorothy’s arrival in the land of Oz. A prequel to L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 4–11 p.m.
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