Arts Entertainment
PAYING TRIBUTE
Billed as North;America's largest,
free-of-charge, world music festival, this
year's Concert of Colors, featuring
musicians from every continent except
Australia and Antarctica, takes place 2-
10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 8-9,
at Detroit's Chene Park.
The festival includes four stages and
more than 40 musical groups providing
continuous entertainment for the entire
family Among the international, nation-
al and local acts scheduled are Buffy
Sainte-Marie (Cree/Canadian), Bo
The UMS Choral Union holds its
seventh annual season of UMS
Summer Sings, come-as-you-are, no-
audition, no-performance evenings of
singing great choral repertoire with
special conductors, 7-9:30 p.m.
Monday, July 10, 17 and 24, in the
University of Michigan Modern
Language Building, Auditorium 4, in
Ann Arbor. Israel native Ari Lipsky,
new music director of the Ann Arbor
Symphony Orchestra, opens the series
with Mozart's Solemn Vespers. $5;
scores and refreshments provided.
Registration begin at 6:30 p.m. (734)
763-8996.
Co-founder of the Eagles, Glenn
Frey returns to his hometown of Royal
Oak for an 8 p.m. concert, Saturday,
July 8, at the Royal Oak Music
Theatre. $42.50. (248) 645-6666.
You can hear their song "YMCA"
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FOLK TREAT
On his Web site, www.folkmusic.com ,
John McCutcheon, a fixture on the folk
scene for almost three decades, lists The
Ark in Ann Arbor as "his favorite club
in North America. An audience spoiled
TURN, TURN, TURN
by almost daily great music that is
The craft of creating objects from
musically literate, fun and always on
turned and carved wood has evolved from
the go."
functional vessel to work of art. Artists
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
McCutcheon, a multi-instrumentalist
Arts c..% Entertainment
have redefined the boundaries of tradi-
who
plays virtually every stringed
Editor
tional wood turning and carving; wood is
instrument
but is best known for his
now being burned, painted, laminated,
skill
on
the
hammer
dulcimer,
makes an appear-
inlaid, bleached, dyed and combined with metal,
ance
at
The
Ark
8
p.m.
Friday,
July 14.
glass, stone, fiber and numerous other materials.
"Christmas
in the
A
versatile
songwriter
-
The vision of artists and the possibilities of the
combines his
who
Trenches"
is
a
folk
classic
-
materials combine in dozens of amazing forms in "The
original material with traditional music,
Fine Art of Wood:
McCutcheon has enjoyed a continuing musical
The Bohlen
collaboration with grass-roots activist and song-
Collection," which
writer Si Kahn ("Gone Gonna Rise Again").
opens today at the
Kahn, the son of a rabbi, met McCutcheon, a
Detroit Institute of
Catholic-turned-Quaker,
when Kahn was hired as
Arts and runs
an
organizer
for
a
United
Mineworkers' strike,
through Dec. 31.
and
McCutcheon
regularly
entertained the min-
Collector Robert
ers
and
their
families.
"We
recognized
an imme-
Bohlen donated the
diate
kinship
and
have
been
best
friends
for the
nearly 100 works in
last
25
years,"
McCutcheon
said
in
a
recent
inter-
the exhibit to the
view.
DIA's permanent
Tickets are $15; doors at 7:30. (734) 761-1451.
collection. For more
Gary Stevens: "Floating Tiger Lily," 1999,
information, call
figured redwood, on display at the DIA.
(313) 833-7900.
Max Leib was part of the music scene in Detroit for
almost 75 years. An accomplished violinist, he played
in clubs, hotels, in movie houses for silent movies, with
radio orchestras and in legitimate theaters for the big
Broadway musicals that toured the country and
stopped in Detroit. For 45 years he was the music con-
tractor who hired the local pit musicians for musicals at
the Fisher Theatre and Masonic Temple Theatres.
Leib died at age 89 on May 25. A memorial trib-
ute will be held 11 a.m. Sunday, July 11, at the
Fisher Theatre in the Fisher Building, 3011 W.
Grand Blvd., in Detroit. The Fisher Theatre
Orchestra will perform musical tributes. For more
information, call (313) 872-1155.
CONCERT OF COLORS
Diddley and Dr. John (USA), Amanpondo
(South Africa) and Susana Baca (Peru).
For a complete schedule, go to the Web
site at vvww.concertofcolors.org .
at every bar/bat mitzvah. Hear legends
of the disco era The Village People,
with special guest Lisa Lisa, perform
live 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 8, at Pine
Knob. $27.50/$15.50. (248) 645-
6666.
Teen pop sensation Britney Spears
takes the stage at Pine Knob 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 9. $40/$25. (248) 645-
6666.
Award-winning contemporary folk
artist Jill Jack performs 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 11, at Huntington
Woods' Scotia Park (Lincoln and
Scotia.). Free. (248) 541-4300.
The Red Garter Band brings its
Dixieland music to the gazebo at the
Burgh Historical Park in Southfield 7
p.m. Wednesday, July 12. Free. (248)
424-9022.
Singer/songwriter Natalie
Merchant performs an evening of folk
music 8 p.m. Thursday, July 13, at
Meadow Brook Music Festival.
Ambleside Galleries,
$27.50/$20. (248)
17116 Kercheval Ave,
645-6666.
Grosse Pointe Village,
The Dexter
July 9-Sept. 24.
Community Players
Opening reception: 1-4
present Hello Dolly,
p.m. Sunday, July 9.
with music and lyrics
(313) 885-8999.
by Jerry Herman, 8 .
Say a HaMotzi when
p.m. Thursday-
Greenfield Village pre-
Saturday and 2 p.m.
sents its first annual
Sunday, July 13-16, at
Our Daily Bread
Copeland Auditorium
Historic Food
in Dexter. $8-$10.
Special st Tracy Chapman, Weekend, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
(734) 426-8387.
picture joins Sting and his
Saturday and Sunday,
The 39th annual
"Brand New Day" tour
July
8-9. $8.50-
Wyandotte Street Art
7:30 p. m. Friday, July 14,
$13.50/children
under 5
Fair takes over Biddle
at Pine Knob. $75/$25.
free. (313) 271-1620.
Avenue 10 a.m.-9 p.m. (248) 645-6666
Maurice Sendak's
Wednesday, 10 a.m.-10
renowned children's
p.m. Thursday, 10
book and television series character
a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-9
Little Bear, with special guest Eric
p.m. Saturday, July 12-15. (734) 324-
Nagler, visits Meadow Brook 11 a.m.
4506.
and 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 12.
The Michigan Watercolor Society
$12.50/$8. (248) 645-6666.
its
53rd
annual
exhibition
at
holds
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