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The annual Salute to America concerts, featuring
a prelude concert by the U.S. Band and Chorus
and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performing
selections from American composers, patriotic tunes
and a rousing 1812 Overture, take place 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, July 3-6, on the Village Green
at Greenfield Village. Adults: $19 advance/$23 day
of; children ages 5-12: $10 advance/$14 day of; 4
and under free. (248) 645-6666.
the B-52s is Israeli rock band Rockfour
(see "Shalom, Detroit," June 7, page 79).
(248) 645-6666.
Meadow Brook Music Festival features
singer/songwriter Jewel, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 3, $20.50-$38; and pop
pianist Jim Brickman, 8 p.m. Friday,
July 5, $17-$29.50. (248) 645-6666.
ON THE STAGE
Birmingham's Hill Gallery hosts recent
sculpture by Jacob Kulin and recent paint-
ings by Melba Price through July 20.
(248) 540-9288.
Huntington Woods' 10th annual sum-
mer art fair, Art in the Woods, will be held
on the grounds of Huntington Woods
Lutheran Church, 12935 11 Mile Road,
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5
p.m. Sunday, June 29-30. (248) 543-9720.
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Village Players of Birmingham stage
Arts e- Entertainment
FESTIVALS
Leader of the Pack, a musical romp
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through the 1960s telling the story of
The Michigan Wine and Food Festival
songwriters Ellie Greenwich and Jeff
Sterling Heights' Freedom Hill Amphitheatre hosts
comes to Meadow Brook Music Festival 4-
Barry as well as other icons of the era, 8 p.m. Fridays
the Beach Boys, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, $25-
10 p.m. Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday and noon-5
and Saturdays, July 5-13. $14. (248) 644-2075.
$45; Brian McKnight, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 30,
p.m. Sunday, June 28-30. $4-$17. (248) 645-6666.
An interactive dinner theater production of Tony n'
$25-$55; and INXS, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 3,
Downtown Pontiac hosts the Hot Wheels Cool
Tina's Wedding returns to Detroit
$25-$45. (248) 645-6666.
Nights Festival 5-10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
for a limited run, 7:30 p.m. Friday
Modern rockers Better
Saturday and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday, June 28-June
and Saturdays, June 29, July 12,
Than Ezra take the stage at
30. Headliners include Johnny Rivers (6/28), LL
13; and 4:30 p.m. Sundays, June
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Cool J (6/29) and Days of the New (6/30).
30 and July 14, at the brand-new
p.m. Saturday, June 29.
Information: www.hotwheelscoolnights.com .
South Shore Banquet Facility, on
Doors at 8 p.m. $21. (248)
Taking place in Detroit's New Center area on
the waterfront in Wyandotte. $55.
645-6666.
West Grand Boulevard between Woodward Avenue
(734) 282-7000.
At DTE Energy Music
and the Lodge Freeway, the 14th annual 2002
Theatre, rock legends the
Comerica Tastefest runs 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.
THE ART SCENE
Allman. Brothers Band and
Wednesday-Saturday and 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m.
Phil Lesh and Friends per-
Southfield's Print Gallery pres-
Sunday, July 3-7. It features 175 menu items, 60
form 5 p.m. Sunday, June 30,
ents hand-painted sculptures by
performers, a marketplace of specialty shops, art
$46.50 pavilion/$32 lawn;
Judy Bomberger and assemblages
gallery and kiddie activities. Headliners include
the B-52s' 25th Anniversary
Israel's Rockfour performs Beatle-esque
by a group of artists inspired by
Ramsey Lewis, Joan Jett, WAR and Dr. John. For a
Tour visits 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, tunes as the opening act for the B-52s at
characters from Cirque du Soleil
complete schedule, call (313) 927-1101 or go to the
July 2, $14-526. Opening for DTE Energy Music Theatre.
through July 30. (248) 356-5454.
Web site at wvvww.tastefest.com .
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LOVE STORY
Sara Felder careens into Ann Arbor
next week with a one-woman show
about her two-women marriage.
The writer-performer, sometimes
funny and other times poignant, does
it all in the context of her Jewish her-
itage — and also while juggling.
June Bride, Felder's theater piece,
will be performed 8 p.m. Monday,
July 1, at the Lydia Mendelssohn
Theater, as part of the Ann. Arbor
Summer Festival.
"It's a love story about trying to
b alance being a modern American
with maintaining allegiance to an
ancient faith, and it's based on truth
and pain," says the entertainer, 43,
who is married to a female trumpet
player she met in a klezmer band.
"I use humor and juggling to say
something that has serious content,
and I've been touring it for five years.
The juggling becomes a metaphor for `Shtick! combines the feelings of an
balancing the issues I've had to face.
!immigrant vaudevillian and a con-
"I started writing this piece like I
temporary performance artist.
Animating Democracy, funded by the
start my other pieces, and that involves
thinking about what would be a good
Ford Foundation, explores the use of
performance to inspire civic dialogue.
story to tell," Felder says. "It took me
one year to write it, and then it got
honed over the next couple of years."
Felder became interested in juggling
as a history student at the University of
California-Berkeley. She noticed a man
juggling on campus, spoke with him
and learned he was teaching a class.
After enrolling and refining her
skills, Felder joined San Francisco's
Pickle Family Circus and then began
writing monologues. Her first solo
show was Beyond Brooklyn, which told
the true story of how she left her New
York childhood behind and moved to
San Francisco.
Sara Felder: "Juggling becomes
Her play The Lady Upstairs tells
about the creation and deployment of ,a metaphor for balancing the
issues I've had to fiice."
the world's first atomic bomb, while
Felder has toured with Joel Grey's
Borscht Capades, taught comedy at San
Francisco State University, and served.
in an artist-in-residence program,
teaching juggling and performance
techniques to inmates in California
prisons and halfway houses.
"I'm trying to convey through June
Bride that. I believe the most impdr-
tant thing about Judaism is that tradi-
tions can change," says Felder, who is
raising her biological son with the
help of his biological father.
'After I do my shows, people tell
me-their own stories."
— Suzanne Chessler
Sara Felder appears 8 p.m.
Monday, July 1, at the
Mendelssohn Theater in Ann
Arbor. $20. (800) 221 - 1229.
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