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CLASSICAL NOTES

The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival concludes
with a concert featuring works by -Haydn, Dvorak and
Mendelssohn with, among others, Jerusalem's Ariel
Quartet, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 26, at Seligman
Performing Arts Center, $35, (248) 559-2097; and 2
p.m. Sunday, June, 27, at Kerrytown Concert House
in Ann Arbor, $15-$30, (734) 769-2999.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents its annu-
al Salute to America at Greenfield Village concerts
8:30 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, July 1-4, preceded by the
Motor City Brass Band, performing 7:30-8 p.m.
$19/general admission. (313) 576-5111.
As part of this year's Ann Arbor Summer Festival,
the United States Army Field Band & Soldier's
Chorus performs a free concert of opera, Broadway,
barbershop quartet, Americana, classical and jazz music
8 p.m. Friday, July 2, at Hill Auditorium in Ann
Arbor. General admission/limit of four tickets per
order. (734) 764-2538.

POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK

DTE Energy Music Theatre hosts pop superstar
Jessica Simpson, with special guest Ryan Cabrera,
7:30 p.m. Friday, June 25, $23.50-$49; classic rockers
Creedance Clearwater Revisited, 7:30 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday, June 26-27, $17.50-$29.50; rock and roll
icons KISS, in their "Rock the Nation World Tour
2004," with special guest Poison, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 30, $35-$65; a Motown Revue fea-
turing Dennis Edwards, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 1,
$16.50-$29; and country superstar Tim McGraw and
his band, the Dancehall Doctors, 7:30 p.m. Friday,
July 2, $30.75-$62.75.
The Ark in Ann Arbor welcomes folk performer
Christine Lavin., 8 p.m. Saturday, June 26, $17.50;
John McCutcheon, Danny Britt and Matt Watroba in
a benefit concert for the Ark, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June
27 (call for details); and blues singer-pianist Marcia
Ball, 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, June 30-July 1,
$22.50. (734) 761-1451.
Detroit Together Men's Chorus presents Rights,
Industry, Motown — Celebrating Detroit, its annual
summer concert, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 26, at
Marygrove College Theatre on the Marygrove Campus
on McNichols in Detroit. $12 advance/$15 at the
door/$20 preferred seating. (248) 544-3872.
V98.7's sixth annual Smooth Jazzfest! returns to
Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights beginning 12:30
p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 26-27. Saturday's
headliner is the Isley Brothers; Sunday's headliners
include saxman Boney James and vocalist Maysa. $25-
$45. (248) 645-6666.
Ann Arbor Summer Festival presents Hawaiian
ukelele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, with Hawaiian
guitarist Led Kaapana, in a program of Hawaiian-fla-
vored music, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 26, at the Power
Center, $26-$38; Canadian fiddler/dancer Natalie
MacMaster and her band in a program of Scottish and
Irish music, 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, at the Power -

Center, $26-$38; and Afro-Peruvian folk
group Inti-Illimani, 8 p.m. Thursday, July
1, at the Power Center, $26-$38. (734)
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764-2538.
Get Back!, featuring the cast of
Beatlemania, takes the stage at Meadow
Brook Music Festival 8 p.m. Thursday,
July 1. $15-$25. (248) 645-6666.
Indie rock's Magnetic Fields plays the
Theatre, 2301 Woodward Ave., in Detroit
(next to the Fox and inside the Hockeytown
Cafe), 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 1. $21.50.
(248) 645-6666.

seven-minute stories told through dance,
music and mime, and reflect real-life issues
such as using one's imagination, sharing and
being laughed at. In addition, the Detroit
PTV Club will be on hand with activities
for children. $12-$15. (248) 645-6666.

THE ART SCENE

The Art in the Woods Fine Art Fair runs
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5
p.m. Sunday, June 26-27, on the grounds
of the Huntington Woods Lutheran
Church, on 11 Mile Road just east of Coolidge. In
addition to fine art and crafts, the fair features food,
children's activities and live entertainment, including
the klezmer band ABZ Orchestra performing 10 a.m.
Saturday, June 26. (248) 543-9720.
The original, manipulated photographs of Cynthia
Davis, from her new book, Ann Arbor: Hand-Altered
Photographs, will be on display June 29-Aug. 1 at the
Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor. Signed
copies of the book, the first in a series of five books
about towns in Michigan to be published by
University of Michigan Press, also will be for sale.
Artist's reception: 7-9 p.m. Friday, July 9. (734) 761-
2287.
The 19th annual ArtServe Michigan Governor's
Awards for Art and Culture is seeking nominations of
artists, art educators, civic leaders, organizations and
others in communities throughout Michigan for signif-
icant creative achievement or outstanding local, region-
al or statewide contributions to Michigan's arts and
cultural life. All nominations must be received by July
16. The form and guidelines are available on the Web
site at www.artservemichigan.org/GAAC/2004/ .
Questions should be directed to Kim Adams, (248)
557-8288 or emailed to gaac@ArtServeMichigan.org.

GAIL ZIMMERIVIAN
Arts & Life Editor

FESTIVALS

Comerica Tastefest 2004 serves up a party of food
and music 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Thursday, July 1-4, and
11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday, July 5, in Detroit's New
Center. Musical highlights include blues legend Buddy
Guy, contemporary jazz artist Rick Braun, Australian
garage rockers Jet, pop rockers Five for Fighting and
R&B favorites the Spinners. More than 60 bands and
DJs will perform. Also on tap: a special activity area for
teens and tweens, a "Tot Lot" for younger children and
specialty shops. Admission is free. "Taste" tickets are $5
for nine tickets/proceeds support charitable activities.
For a complete schedule, to volunteer and for more
information, call (313) 872-0188 or go to
-www.tastefest.com .

ON THE STAGE

As part of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, The
Reduced Shakespeare Company presents its "con-
densed" version of the world's great literature in All the
Great Books (Abridged) 8 p.m. Sunday, June 27, at
the Power Center in Ann Arbor. $26-$38. (734) 764-
2538.
The Treetown Performance Festival presents YDE-
MOC PU DNATS — LIMF Nodes 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, July 1-11, at
Performance Network in Ann Arbor. Following a
standup comedy show with five local comics, the same
comics will take part in an original theatrical produc-
tion that explores the behind-the-scenes world of
standup comedy, directed by Jeffrey Steiger. $17-
$20/pay what you can Thursdays. (734) 663-0681.

LAUGH LINES

Hot comic Dave Chappelle brings his "Grass-Roots
Tour" to Detroit's State Theatre 7 p.m. Sunday, June
26. $25-$40. (248) 645-6666.

FAMILY FUN

The Toy Castle, a popular children's television show,
brings its characters to the live stage at Meadow Brook
Music Festival for two shows, 2 and 7 p.m.
Wednesday, June 30. The performances feature eight

WHATNOT

Sylvan Lake hosts its first-ever Home and Garden
Tour, featuring eight homes with gardens (including a
centennial home built in 1904), plus two additional
gardens, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 26. Tour begins
at the Sylvan Lake Community Center. $12 advance
tickets/$15 day of. (248) 681-2750 or (248) 681-
8624.
Judith Guest, author of Ordinary People, discusses
and signs copies of The Tarnished Eye, her new sus-
pense novel set in a northern Michigan wilderness, 7
p.m. Wednesday, June 30, at Nicola's in Ann Arbor.
(734) 662-4110.
The Historical Society of South Haven will mount
a show tided Catskills of the Midwest — The Jewish
Resort Era in South Haven from June 17-July 31,
2005, and is asking for the loan of historic objects,
photos and memorabilia pertaining to any of the
numerous Jewish resorts from South Haven's past. For
further information, contact Sue Hale, (269) 637-
8456, or Debbie Zuckerman, (269) 637-7789.

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:
Gait 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.

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