Best Bets
CLASSICAL NOTES
Brunch With Bach at the Detroit Institute of
Arts presents Continuum, in a program of recent
and vintage 20th-century instrumental and vocal
music, 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 15. Tickets: 11
a.m. brunch and concert, $22 adults/$11 children
under 12; concert only stairwell seating, $5.
(313) 833-4005.
The Rite of Strings, a concert featuring double
bassist Stanley Clark, acoustic violinist Jean-Luc
Ponty and acoustic guitarist Al Dimeola, takes
place 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20, at the Detroit
Opera House. $48-$78. (248) 645-6666.
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
DTE Energy Music Theatre hosts classic R&B
groups The O'Jays, The Whispers, The
Temptations and The Dells, 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 14, $24.50-$50.75; classic rock group
Heart, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16, $18.50-
$32.50; OZZfest, featuring Ozzy Osbourne,
doors at 9 a.m., $48.25-$72.75; pop/rocker Rod
Stewart in his "From Maggie May to the Great
American Songbook" tour, 8 p.m. Wednesday,
Aug. 18, $32.75-$92.25; and singer-songwriter
Kenny Loggins, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 19,
$19.50-$35.50. (248) 645-6666.
The folk-inflected, pop-rock Liz Larin Band
(singer-songwriter Larin won five 2004 Detroit
Music Awards) per-
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Sunday, Aug. 15, at
the Ark in Ann
Arbor. $11. (734)
761-1451.
Jerome Duncan
Theatre at Freedom
Hill presents coun-
try star Leann
Rimes, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 15,
$25-$48; and
Guitars and Saxes,
with Euge Groove,
Marc Antoine, Jeff
Golub and Warren
Liz Larin performs at -the Ark.
Hill, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug.
18, $10-$20. (248) 645-6666.
Meadow Brook Music Festival welcomes the
Bob Marley Roots Rock Festival, featuring the
Marley Brothers and other reggae performers,
5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.18, $36.50; and
"Weird Al" Yankovic, 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 19,
$21.50-$37.50. (248) 645-6666.
The Pink Floyd Experience, re-creating the
band, lights and sound of the legendary rock
group, takes the stage at Royal Oak Music
Theatre Thursday, Aug. 19. Doors at 7:30 p.m.
$19.50-$39. (248) 645-6666.
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Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 14-15,
downtown Brighton, (810) 227-5086;
Kerrytown Concert House in Ann
and the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival,
Arbor hosts the Brass Tacks Ensemble
Friday-Sunday, Aug. 20-22, Riverside
in The Shakespeare Variations, a revue
Park and Depot Town, (734) 483-6071.
of 10 sketches inspired by Shakespeare's
From Aug. 14-Dec. 19, the
tragedies that includes comedy, drama,
University of Michigan Museum of Art
music, satires, prequels, sequels and
displays for the first time in 40 years
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
what-ifs, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday,
one of the masterpieces of its collec-
Arts Editor
Aug. 19-21. $5-$10. Reservations:
tion: the Ann Arbor Shahnama, an
(248) 769-2999.
illustrated manuscript produced in
Baghdad in the 1460s that retells the legendary .
exploits of Persian kings and heroes from the
DANCE FEVER
beginnings' of civilization down to the Islamic
conquest in the mid-seventh century. Senior
Acclaimed local choreographer Peter Sparling
Curator of Asian Art Maribeth Graybill offers a
directs his company in A Decade of Dance: The
talk on the medieval masterpiece 3 p.m. Sunday,
PSDC Summer Reunion Revue 8 p.m.
Aug. 15. (734) 764-0395.
Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19-
The Jewish Community Center in West
22, at Performance Network in Ann Arbor.
Bloomfield hosts Expressions, an exhibit of fine
Included is Sparling's newest work, Peninsula, an
art, including paintings, sculpture, jewelry and
exploration of Michigan's past that combines
tapestries, by Israeli artists, Sunday-Friday, Aug.
modern dance and video projections. Performers
15-19. Visitors to the exhibit may enter a raffle to
include current and former members of his stu-
win a $500 Israeli painting. Exhibit hours are 1-7
dio. $24.50-$27.50/pay what you can Thursdays.
p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-
(734) 663-0681.
Thursday. (248) 432-5577.
Automotive artist Charles J. Maher
exhibits his paintings Aug. 16-Oct. 1
THE BIG SCREEN
at the Woods Gallery, located in the
The Redford Theatre screens
lower level of the Huntington Woods
one of the best-ever Marx
Library. (248) 336-1961.
Brothers productions, A Night at
Detroit's Pewabic Pottery holds a
the Opera, with Kitty Carlisle,
staff and faculty exhibition, featuring
plus selected short subjects
fiberglass sculpture, ceramic vessels,
including George Burns and
clay sculpture, large ceramic wall tiles,
Gracie Allen in Your Hat, 8 p.m.
jewelry, painting and fiber arts,
Friday and 2 and 8 p.m.
through Aug. 31. The pottery's annual
Saturday, Aug. 13-14; organ over-
fire sale, with discounts up to 50 per-
ture begins one-half hour prior to
cent on slightly imperfect tiles and
show time. $5. (313) 531-4407.
vessels, runs Friday (members only),
Saturday (10 a.m.-4 p.m.) and Sunday
(10 a.m.-4 p.m.), Aug. 20-22; bring
FAMILY FUN
your own packing materials. (313)
822-0954.
Favorite children's book charac-
ter Franklin the Turtle appears
live on stage as performances of
WHATNOT
Franklin's Class Concert come to `!,4 Night at the O pera'
screens this weeken d at the
Meadow Brook Music Festival 2
England's Elizabethan Age is re-cre-
Redford Theatre.
and 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 14.
ated in Michigan as the Michigan
$10-$17.50. (248) 645-6666.
Renaissance Festival returns to Holly
The Wiggles, Australia's most
10 a.m.-7 p.m. weekends and Labor Day, Aug.
successful children's entertainment group, take
14-Sept. 26. (800) 601-4848 or
the stage in The Wiggles in Concert, 3 and 6:30
www.michrenfest.com
p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 17-18, at
The Madrigal Chorus of Southfield holds
Detroit's Fox Theatre. $18-$33. (248) 433-1515.
auditions for all voice parts beginning 5 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 31, at Southfield-Lathrup High
School. Call (248) 352-9527 to arrange an audi-
THE ART SCENE
tion. ❑
Upcoming art fairs include the Shelby
Township Art Fair, Saturday and Sunday, Aug.
14-15, Shelby Township Municipal Grounds,
(586) 731-0300; the Brighton Art Festival,
ON THE STAGE
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