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Detroit Symphony
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its summer season
with a free Summer

Celebration
Concert, including
George Gershwin's
An American in Paris, at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, June 26, at Orchestra Hall.
Food available for purchase. Reserve
tickets: (313) 576-5111; dso.org .
Enjoy an evening of fireworks and
patriotic music at the 21st annual
Salute to America concerts, at 8:30
p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, July 3-6, at
Greenfield Village in Dearborn. Detroit
Symphony Orchestra Music Director
Leonard Slatkin returns to lead the
DSO for all four performances through
a program including Tchaikovsky's 1812
Overture, a Salute to the Armed Forces
and more. Grounds open at 6 p.m.; food
and beverages available for purchase;
attendees are welcome to bring chairs
and blankets to the concerts. $12-$50.
(313) 982-6001; thehenryford.org/salute.

POP / ROCK JAZZ / FOLK

New York-based indie rock band the

Yeah Yeah Yeahs take the stage at the

Fillmore Detroit on Friday, June 28.
Doors at 7 p.m.; all ages welcome. Just
before the band played a sold-out concert
in Israel in 2009, Jewish drummer David
Chase, who's also drummed for the
Brooklyn-based Sway Machinery, a band
that gives traditional Jewish cantorial
music a modern edge, told the Jerusalem
Post: "I had some Zionist background,
but only recently I've sort of rediscovered
the Torah, which has rekindled the spark
and desire to come [to Israel]:' $30-$45.
(313) 961-5451; thefillmoredetroit.com
American rock band O.A.R. (for
"Of a Revolution"), founded in 1996
in Rockville, Md., with three Jewish
members — lead singer Marc Roberge,
bassist Benj Gershman and drummer
Chris Culos — tours to Meadow Brook
Music Festival at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, June
30. $37.50 pavilion/$26 lawn. (800) 745-
3000; palacenet.com .
Rock bands the Counting Crows,
including Jewish-born founding member
and lead singer Adam Duritz, and
a reunited (after a three-year hiatus)
the Wallflowers, including its Jewish
founding members, vocalist/guitarist
Jakob Dylan, bassist Greg Richling and
keyboardist Rami Jaffee, bring their
summer tour to Meadow Brook Music
Festival at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 4. $46
pavilion/$26 lawn. (800) 745-3000;
palacenet.com .
The 21st annual Concert of Colors,
a jackpot of free live music in Detroit's
Midtown district running Thursday-

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Sunday, July 4-7, includes,
among many other
performances, the Detroit

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and Latin hip-hop band
Ozomatli performing
together (3 p.m. Saturday,
July 6, Orchestra Hall);
super-producer and former
Oak Parker Don Was'
Sixth Detroit All-Star Revue (8:30
p.m. Saturday, July 6, Orchestra Hall);
and global jazz group Yemen Blues,
co-founded in 2010 by singer Ravid
Kahalani, a rising star in Israel who
grew up in a traditional Yemenite
family, and Omer Avital, a well-known
bass player and composer from New
York (9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6, Music
Box). For a complete schedule and
listing of venues, go to concertofcolors.
com.

ON THE STAGE

The Michigan premiere of Gina
Gionfriddo's hit 2008 Off-Broadway
play, Becky Shaw, a comedy that
blends humor with the suspense
of a psychological thriller, plays
Ann Arbor's Performance Network
Theatre Thursdays-Sundays, June
20-July 28. $22-$41. (734) 663-0681;
performancenetwork.org.
Chelsea's Purple Rose Theatre
Company presents the world premiere
of Miles and Ellie, Don Zolidis' new
comic drama about a divorced and
disenchanted woman who returns to her
hometown and rediscovers her childhood
sweetheart, Wednesdays-Sundays, June
20-Aug. 31. $22-$42. (734) 433-7673;
purplerosetheatre.org.

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Festival comes to Meadow Brook Music
Festival Saturday, June 22, from 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m., featuring family-friendly acts
(among them, the Laurie Berkner Band,
Dan Zanes & Friends and the School of
Rock) in addition to other performers
and DJs, games, interactive activities,
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Festival, celebrating the city's culture,
ecology and maritime history and
featuring national headlining musical
acts the Guess Who, the ()lays and
George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars,
returns along the Detroit Riverfront
Friday-Sunday, June 21-24. More info:
detroitriverfront.org .

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