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harmonize at Pine Knob 7:30 p.m.

-- Priday, July 24. $22.50 pavil-

ion/$12.50 lawn. (248) 645-6666.
Country music artists The Maver-
icks perform with special guests BR5-
49 8 p.m. Friday, July 24, at Meadow
Brook Music Festival. $30 pavil-
ion/$15 lawn. (248) 645-6666.
The multiplatinum Backstreet
Boys bring their blend of pop and
, --q.&B to The Palace 7:30 p.m. Fri-
day, July 24. $26.50. (248) 645-
6666.

items, including functional objects
and contemporary studio glass.
Through Sept. 22. The Michigan
Watercolor Society 51st Annual Exhi-
bition, with a traveling show of water-
colors, joins the glass exhibit from July
27-September 15. Third Hoor of the

On The Stage

-

The city of Southfield presents
the comedic farce Farndale ... Mac-
beth July 24-Aug. 9. Shows are at 8
p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 2
p.m. Sundays in the historic church
at the corner of Civic Center Drive
and Berg Road. Call for prices.
(248) 827-0701.

Laugh Lines

The unmistakable sound of "alter-
native" comedian Bobcat Goldthwait
awaits the crowd at Chaplin's Comedy
Club 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, July 24 and 25. $10-S 15.
34244 Groesbeck, Clinton Town-
ship. (810) 792-1902.

The Art Scene

Botanicals II: Florals & Land-
scapes by Michigan Artists, a
statewide botanical gardens juried
competition, is on exhibit at the Uni-
versity of Michigan Slusser Gallery
through July 29. 2000 Bonisteel Blvd.,
Ann Arbor. (734) 936-2082.
The Alfred Berkowitz Gallery at the
1- )U-M — Dearborn presents two exhi-
bitions this summer. Selected Works
from the Alfred Berkowitz/U-M
Dearborn Collection exhibits glass

Whatnot

Political activist and poet M.L.
Liebler and the Magic Poetry
Band visit the Shaman Drum
Bookshop 7:30-9:30 p.m. Thurs-
day, July 23, for a blend of spoken
word performance and eclectic
Above: Sister Act! The Pointers play Pine Knob
music. 313 S. State St. Ann
on July 24.
Arbor. (313) 662-7407.
The Midwest AIDS Prevention
Left: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones join Alison
Project presents Art Works for
Krause at Pine Knob on Sunday.
Life, an evening of music, fash-
ion, hors d'oeuvres and live and
silent auctions, 6:30-10:30 p.m.
Mardigian Library. (313) 593-5058.
Saturday Aug. 8. The live auction
The Young African Experience, a
begins at 8:30 p.m. $40/advance pur-
selection of stone sculptures, clay fig-
chase only. Edsel & Eleanor Ford
urines and wood carvings by young
House, 1100 Lake Shore Road, Grosse
South African apprentice artists,
Pointe Shores. (248) 545-1435.
exhibits at Moore's Gallery through

Just Jazz

The Big Screen

It's Independence Day at Marshbank
Park when Will Smith and Harry
._7-.Connick Jr. appear in an outdoor, sur-
round-sound movie performance of
the blockbuster hit on Saturday, July
18. 7 p.m. ticket sales/9 p.m. show-
rime. $5 per car/S1 walk-ins (bring
blanket or lawn chair). Hiller Road,
north of Commerce Road, in West
Bloomfield. (248) 738-2500.

August 15. 304 Hamilton Row,
Birmingham. (248) 647-4662.

IV

hen Michael Millman is
not playing bass with
his own jazz band or
his own rock band, he
could be found performing at Con-
gregation Beit Kodesh in Livonia,
where he periodically accompanies
Rabbi Craig Allen, who plays trum-
pet on special occasions.
Millman will be easy to find July
24 and 25 as his jazz band, the
Michael Millman Trio, makes its
debut appearance at Birmingham's
annual Jazzfest. The trio will take the
stage between 8:30 p.m. and 12:30
a.m. at Peabody's.
"We think our style is like the
Oscar Peterson Trio," said Millman,
20, a music and business major at
Wayne State University. "We'll be
loud enough for everyone to hear us
and quiet enough for people to enjoy
their table conversation."
Millman, who will be joined by
Don Ambory on guitar and Tom
Dennis at the piano, started playing
the bass at age 9 for practical reasons,
not because he preferred the instru-
ment. His school music teacher knew
his height would allow him to handle
it, and his parents had a car large
enough to transport it.
Soon, the bass grew on him.
"I like the way the bass is suited to

all different kinds of music," said
Millman, now 5 feet 11 inches. "It
can be melodic or rhythmic."
Millman, whose group performs
periodically at suburban restaurants,
also has played with the Harrison
High School Band at the Montreux
Detroit Jazz Festival.
A scholarship student at Wayne,
Millman writes a lot of the music for
his rock group, Mind Circus, and

The Community House in Birm-
ingham presents Jazzfest Thursday-
Saturday, July 23-25. Free concerts
listed below will be performed in
Shain Park with one exception,
which is noted. For information,
call (248) 644-5832.

Thursday:
• 7:30-9 p.m. — Alexander Zonjic
and Friends

Friday:

• 6:30-7:30 p.m. — "Summer in
the City" for children, featuring
Madcat and Kane (on the steps of
.
City Hall)
• 7:30-8:30 p.m. — The R.I.K.'s
Reunion Band featuring Marcus
Belgrave, George Benson and Ursu-
la Walker

teaches private students. He likes lis-
tening to — and playing along with
— klezmer music.
"I used to go to Jazzfest, and now
I'm glad I can perfoim in it," said
Millman, who hopes to expand his
professional opportunities as an
instrumentalist and also do classroom
teaching.

— Suzanne Chessler

• 8:45-9:45 p.m. — The Sun Mes-
sengers

Saturday:
• 10:30-11:30 a.m. — Chautauqua .
Express for children
• 12-1 p.m. —The Paul Ven-
timiglia Group
• 1:15-2:15 p.m. — Orquestra
Fuego
• 2:30-3:30 p.m. — The Wayne
State University Big Band
• 3:45-4:45 p.m. — SCool JAzz
PRime
• 6-7 p.m. — Judie Cochill Ensem-
ble featuring vibraphonist Robert-
Pipho
• 7:15-8:15 p.m. — Millie Scott &
The Dream Band featuring Perry
Hughes on guitar
• 8:30-9:30 p.m. — Straight Ahead

7/17
1998

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