ANN ARBOR, MI – Live music and the laughter of children fill the air every year during Ann Arbor’s annual Summer Festival.
This year, Summer Fest – and its Top of the Park event on the University of Michigan’s Ingalls Mall – spans most of June, beginning Friday, June 12 and ending Sunday, June 28.
With the help of donations and over 400 volunteers, Summer Fest organizers are able to keep tickets to Top of the Park events free. Meanwhile, those in attendance feast on multiple plates and confections at area food trucks parked nearby.
Top of the Park has an outdoor stage for live music, tents for food and private events and large open green spaces.
Upcoming events can be found at A2SF.org and can be filtered for music, family events and ticketed concerts.
“It feels a little like Brigadoon,” said James Carter, the associate director of A2SF, referencing the 1950s musical about a magical place that appears every 100 years…