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Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Ann Arbor, MI

Member Since: January 16, 2004
Festival biz experience: 20+ years
Ann Arbor, Michigan

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival is an exhilarating celebration of performing arts, outdoor entertainment, and community spirit. A boutique music and arts festival, the three-week gathering offers dozens of performances, activities, exhibitions, and screenings representative of the best in music, dance, comedy, film, street arts and family entertainment.

Today, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival produces two concurrent programs, one indoor and one outdoor, at various venues and spaces across the University of Michigan campus and in downtown Ann Arbor. The indoor Mainstage series includes ticketed performances of world-class music, dance, theater and comedy. The outdoor program, Top of the Park, is held along a beautiful campus green and offers admission-free concerts, movies under the stars, open-air spectacles and unique family attractions.

Now entering its 37th season, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival offers a progressive mix of regional, national, and international artists of all disciplines. Presenting over 140 scheduled events each season and attracting a diverse audience of 80,000 people, the festival continues to grow as a major cultural event in the Ann Arbor community, and as an internationally recognized celebration of arts that enriches the cultural, economic and social vitality of the region.

For nearly three decades, the festival has hosted such luminaries as Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Marcel Marceau, Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Recent Mainstage seasons have featured Garrison Keillor, Willie Nelson, Gladys Knight, Chris Isaak, Diana Krall, Lily Tomlin, Bernadette Peters, Lyle Lovett, k.d. lang, Devo, Buddy Guy, John Hiatt, Los Lobos and Melissa Etheridge. In addition to its mainstream presentations, recent fringe and alternative offerings have included performances by John Waters, Sandra Bernhard, Dean & Britta, Neal Medlyn, Meow Meow, Die Roten Punkte, That 1 Guy, and Mucca Pazza.

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