Observer Editor
“Top of the Park”: Ann Arbor Summer Festival
See 12 Friday.
Tonight in the KidZone: a petting farm (5 p.m.) featuring live animals from Domino’s Farms, and chalk drawing with popular local street artist David Zinn (5 p.m.).
In the Annex Tent: a printmaking workshop (5 p.m.) led by Ann Arbor District Library staff.
On the Power Center Lawn: swing dancing lessons (5:30 p.m.) led by a Swing Ann Arbor instructor.
On the O&W Grove Stage: the young local jazz-pop vocalist Meghan Woerpel (5 p.m.), and traditional Appalachian and Irish music and step dancing by the Lansing duo of Ruby John & Nic Gareiss (5:50 p.m.).
On the Rackham Stage: the Aston Neighborhood Pleasure Club (6:45 p.m.), a Ferndale-based ensemble that specializes in traditional New Orleans and other early jazz styles; and Djangophonique (8:15 p.m.), a local ensemble, led by guitarist Andrew Brown, that plays vintage jazz in the style of gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt’s 1930s Parisian swing.
The music is followed at 9:45 p.m. by a screening of Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis’s clever and charming 1993 comedy-fantasy about a burned-out weatherman condemned to relive the same day for an apparent eternity. 5–11 p.m.
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