Arts & Entertainment FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT; 24th Annual Yiddish Concert in the Park at Scotia Park in Huntington Woods (on Scotia & Lincoln) Rain Site: Huntington Woods Recreation Center, 26325 Scotia Performance Artist Sunday, August 4, 7 p.m. Combining elements of theater, music, art, science and vaudeville, Blue Man Group co-founder Matt Goldman offers audiences a unique multi-sensory experience. Fun! Funny! Great for all ages! The band dares you not to dance! SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News More info? Call The Circle of Jewish Culture 248-545-0985 26341 Coolidge at Talbot 640200 rot New to OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 10 AM-10 FiAi 27847 Orchard Lake Road 12 & Orchard Lake next to Roosevelts Farmington Hills, MI 248.653.0002 I. MIN NM vwfi MN MN 10 MILE & GRAND RIVER 248-476-5333 MON.-THURS. 5 - 10 PM • FRI. & SAT. 5-11 PM • SUN. 4-9 PM 8/ 2 2002 70 Founded By Friends "This tour is unbelievably exciting for Blue Man because it's completely new ground," says Goldman, 40, whose performers use plumbing pipe, imagi- native hitting surfaces and reconstruct- ed pianos among their many offbeat instruments. "There's almost no material that we're performing in Michigan that we've ever performed before. The biggest departure is that a lot of the songs actually have lyrics." Blue Man Group, touring with an EOM iBUY 1 CHEESE I 'CONEY, GET 1 I 1 1 1 1 With coupon 1 EXP. 9-6-02 637030 B lue Man Group — a per- formance act featuring three men with blue-paint ed heads, a unique style of music played on invented instru- ments and a variety of techno antics — might seem to be from outer space. But one of its founding mem- bers actually traces his down-to-earth roots to the Detroit Jewish commu- nity. Matt Goldman, born and raised in New York City, is the son of Robert Goldman, a Manhattan documentary producer who graduated from Detroit's Central High School, became active in the Hillel program at the University of Michigan and gained employment as the first science editor of the Detroit Free Press. The younger Goldman, a Clark University business graduate, builds on the science interests of his father while creating shows constructed at the intersection of human interaction and technology with longtime friends and fellow per- formers Chris Wink and Phil Stanton. Goldman's troupe soon will appear in the area of his heritage as part of the Area:2 — Summer Tour 2002 at DTE Energy Music Theatre. Starting at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, the concert features Blue Man Group, Busta Rhymes, David Bowie, Moby and the Irish band Ash on DTE's main stage, with Carl Cox, John Digwood, DJ Tiesto, the Avalanches, DJ Tim Skinner and more perform- ing in an air-conditioned dance tent. The music festival, founded by Moby last year, crosses musical gen- res and seeks to bring together differ- ent music fans. BLUE MAN GROUP Blue Man Groups Grammy-nominated CD, `Audio," features such tunes as "Opening Mandelbrot," "Mandelgroove," and "Klein Mandelbrot," and melds tribal, surf and industrial rock 'n' roll. 11-piece band this time, is stressing music while sharing the stage with other entertainers. In their more the- atrical shows, Blue Man troupers dare audiences to take part as members explore the themes of urban isolation and public disguises. Their wider productions, consistent- ly drawing standing ovations wherever they are performed, are known for tak- ing the audience through multi-senso- ry experiences that combine theater, music, art, science and vaudeville. For example, tubes of paint are poured on a drum, and the resulting splashes form instant abstract art; or an audi- ence member is dragged on stage to join the Blue Men in a Twinkie ban- quet, and watch the cream filling burst out of their stomachs.