Best Bets 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- 6/18 2004 34 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 761-1451 days of special events at the Furniture GAIL ZIMMERMAN 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. FYI: For Arts and Life related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number, to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 304-8885; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.