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Left: Jaden Rockind, 5, of Bloomfield Hills at the Shalom Street booth. Middle: Jake Ruby, 9, of Berkley presses olives as volunteer Shelley Littman watches. Right:
Angelica Cohen, 18, and Nancy Smith, 19, both of Southfield, enjoy the fireworks after the evening concert.

Left: Max Friedman and Lindsay Schlussel, both 4 and of Huntington Woods, at the concert. Middle: Mango, lime and other fruit labeled in Hebrew at the shuk or market-
place. Right: Sima Greenfeld, 3, of New Jersey shows her Israeli spirit.

Sta ff p ho tos by Ang ie Baan

Audience Participation Fuels Concert

Lucas Hutten

with his red

guitar

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August 28 2008

Musician/emcee Peter Himmelman ad libbed with the crowd at the bandshell during
his two songs. In the first, he urged people to start dancing, jokingly offering $1,500 to
those who got the dancing started. Andy Trepack, 4, of Huntington Woods did the job.
He was rewarded not with $1,500, but by becoming part of the lyrics of
Himmelman's song. He became "Andy in the yellow shirt."
While performing with the Moshav Band, Himmelman spotted a toddler with a red
guitar strumming away in the clearing beneath the stage. Himmelman made up a
song on the spot about Lucas Hutten of Novi, 2 1 /2, who had picked out the guitar
as an arcade prize. Soon, the whole audience was singing the refrain about "the kid
with the red guitar."
After the concert, Lucas went backstage with his parents, Scott and Laura, and
other family members for more with Himmelman, who sang additional lyrics to
Lucas' song and chatted.
Scott says Lucas loves to dance and watches music videos.
"He just ran up to the front of the stage and started dancing," Scott said.
"It was fun; now I'm a superstar," Lucas said as he clutched his red guitar.

- Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor

Andy
Trepeck gets

the dancing

going.