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CLASSICAL NOTES
The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival con-
tinues at a host of various venues through June
27. Highlights this week include Ruth Laredo in
recital, playing works by Schumann, Beethoven,
Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and Ravel, 7 p.m.
Sunday, June 20, at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield
Township, $22; and the Elements String
Quartet's Snapshots, a multimedia performance
featuring 14 short works commissioned from a
diverse group of composers, 8 p.m. Friday, June
25, at Detroit's State Theatre, $15. For a com-
plete schedule of concerts, call (248) 559-2097 or
go to www.greatlakeschambermusic.com .
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs
Metropark Concerts 8 p.m. Friday, June 25, at
Kensington Metropark in Milford; 8 p.m.
Saturday, June 26, at Lake Erie Metropark in
Brownstown; and 8 p.m. Sunday, June 27, at
Metrobeach Metropark in Mt. Clemens. All con-
certs are free, except for required Metroparks
vehicle entry permit ($20 annual/$12 seniors;
daily: $4). Info: www.detroitsymphony.com .
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
The Jambalaya Street Festival, featuring a taste
of New Orleans
and a music line- 3
up headlined by
Dave Koz and
Friends, takes
place 4 p.m.-
midnight Friday,
11 a.m.-mid-
night Saturday
and 11 a.m.-8
p.m. Sunday,
June 18-20, in
downtown
Pontiac. Food
and beverage
sales benefit local
charities. Jewish
jazz saxophonist
Jazz saxophonist Dave Koz
Koz performs
headlines the Jambalaya Street
6:30 p.m.
Festival
in Pontiac.
Sunday on the
GM National
Stage. For a complete schedule, go to
www.pontiacfestivals.com .
It's a triple treat when singer-songwriters Ben
Folds, Rufus Wainwright and all-Jewish pop trio
Guster take the stage 7 p.m. Sunday, June 20, at
Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights. $19.50-$32.50.
Freedom Hill also hosts WRIF's Harleyfest, fea-
turing big bikes and hard rock, 4 p.m. Saturday,
June 19, $25-$30; and the Indigo Girls,
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, $25-$38.50. (248)
645-6666.
Prince brings his "Musicology Tour" to the
Palace of Auburn Hills for all-in-the-round per-
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formances 7:30 p.m. Sunday and
About Nothing, 8 p.m. Thursday-
Monday, June 20-21. $49.50-$77.50.
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 24-
40k,
(248) 645-6666.
27, at Performance Network in Ann
Country-western band Asleep at the
Arbor. $17-$20/pay what you can
Wheel, featuring Jewish frontman Ray
Thursday. (734) 663-0681. -
Benson, appears 8 p.m. Tuesday, June
Walk & Squawk Performance Project
22, at the Ark in Ann Arbor. $30. (734)
announces The Walking Project, three
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days of special events at the Furniture
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Veteran musician and Rock and Roll
Factory in Detroit, featuring theater
Arts & Life Editor
Hall of Famer Dion takes the stage 8
and music performances, a performance
p.m. Thursday, June 24, at the Power
workshop, dance party and more,
Center in Ann Arbor as part of this year's Ann
Friday-Sunday, June 25-27. For details and to
Arbor Summer Festival. $32-$45. (734) 764-
register, call (313) 832-8890 or go to
2538.
www.walksquawk.org .
Kids Klez Band of Michigan and its founder,
Cantor Stephen Dubov, will be featured per-
formers 7-8 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, in
LAUGH LINES
Birmingham's Shain Park, as part of the city's "In
Michael Feldman and his gang of audio
the Park" concert series. Free and open to the
pranksters take the stage in Whad'Ya Know? —
community. (248) 644-1800, Ext. 245.
a live broadcast of his weekly public-radio show
In her first-ever tour with a symphony orches-
that is part of this year's Ann Arbor Summer
tra, country-pop songstress k.d. lang performs in
Festival — 11 a.m. Saturday, June 19, at Hill
concert with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra 8
Auditorium in Ann Arbor. $35-$45. (734) 764-
p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, June 23-24, at
2538.
the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit. $25-
Also part of the festival is An Evening with Lily
$88. (313) 576-5111.
Tomlin, in which the Detroit native brings her
Art-punk performer Patti Smith performs
eccentric characters to life, followed by a Q&A
Friday, June 25, at Detroit's Majestic Theatre.
session with the audience, 8 p.m. Friday, June 25,
Doors at 8 p.m. $20. (248) 645-6666.
at Hill Auditorium. $35-$45. (734) 764- '2 538.
ON THE STAGE
THE SMALL SCREEN
Pontiac Theatre IV presents Shakespeare's
Much Ado About Nothing 7 p.m. Friday and 3
and 7 p.m. Saturday, June 18-19, at the Starlight
Theatre in the Summit Place Mall in Waterford,
$15, (248) 620-2866; and 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday, June 25-27, at the
Sylvan Lake Community Center, as part of the
city of Sylvan Lake's "Shake at the Lake," a festi-
val that begins 10 a.m. Saturday and 12 p.m.
Sunday, $10, (248). 682-1440.
Heartlande Theatre Company presents the
eighth annual Play By Play, a 12-hour marathon
of original short plays showcasing local and
nationally known writers, actors and directors, -
noon-midnight Saturday, June 19, in Oakland
University's Studio Theatre in Varner Hall, locat-
ed at Squirrel Road and Walton Boulevard in
Rochester. $25 half-day, pass/$40 all-day
access/$5 one-hour pass. For a schedule of per-
formances, go to www.heartlande.com .
Chelsea's Purple Rose Theatre Company pre-
mieres Duck Hunter Shoots Angel, a new play by
Mitch Albom about a New York City tabloid
journalist on a search for two Alabama swamp
poachers who believe they shot a celestial being,
June 24-Aug. 28. Call for show times. $17.50-
$32.50. (734) 433-7673.
The Treetown Performance Festival hosts the
Mosaic Youth Theatre in Everybody's Talkin', a
fresh musical spin on Shakespeare's Nluch Ado
Detroit Public Television-Channel 56 screens
the 1959 film version of The Diary of Anne
Frank, starring Millie Perkins in the title role and
Shelly Winters in an Academy Award-winning
role for Best Supporting ActresS as Mrs. Van
Daan, 9 p.m. Friday, June 18. Check your local
listings.
Michigan Television, Ann Arbor's public televi-
sion station, presents Television in America: An
Autobiography, in which TV critic Steven H.
Sheuer and TV producer Morton Silverman talk
to pioneering news and documentary figures
including Ted Koppel, Mike Wallace and Daniel
Shorr, 10 p.m. Saturdays, beginning June 19.
Check your local listings.
FAMILY FUN
The New Detroit Science Center opens Starlit
Summer Nights, a digital planetarium extrava-
ganza highlighting summer night skies, Saturday,
June 19. Shows are at 3 p.m. daily. Admission is
$4 plus general admission. (313) 577-8400.
Known as the Baryshnikov of juggling, circus
star Gregory Popovich brings his Comedy and
Pet Theatre, a one-man review accompanied by
the antics of nine dogs and 14 kittens, to the
Power Center in Ann Arbor 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday,
June 20, as part of the Ann Arbor Summer
Festival. $20-$28. (734) 647-2278.
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