Jul 24 Friday
Free Live Music: Rob Crozier and The Habit Jazz CollectiveLooking for live jazz in the Ann Arbor and Detroit area? We have you covered and the best part is that there is absolutely no cover.Lock this event into your local music calendar. Rob Crozier and the Habit Jazz Collective are bringing their energy, tight grooves, and improvisations to the stage. Led by bassist Rob Crozier, this collective blends classic jazz sensibilities with a modern, soulful twist.Whether you are a lifelong Michigan jazz fan or just looking for a cool local vibe to kick back with, this is the place to be. Live music with zero admission fee means you have a great opportunity to experience the talent thriving in the Detroit and Ann Arbor jazz scene.Hit the link below for full venue details and set times. Come out, support the venue, and keep the live groove alive!Need entertainment for your next private party, corporate function, or wedding? Rob Crozier and the Habit Jazz Collective are available for hire and ready to bring live music straight to your event.
Jul 25 Saturday
The Outdoor Gallery and Sculpture Garden is open for the season! Thursdays - Saturdays, from 12-4. Free and Open to the Public. Come explore the magic of Susanne + John’s work!
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Athena by Gracie Gardner
“A deadly serious comedy about ambition, success, and owning your superiority.” --NY Times
Mary Wallace and Athena are brave, and seventeen, and fencers, and training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends. Can they overcome their fierce competitiveness? Would they even want to? Directed by Shelby R. Seeley.
July 17 - August 9, 2026
Tickets: General $30 / 65 & Over $25 / Students $15
Jul 26 Sunday
10-piece big band led by Chris Smith, specializing in hot jazz of the 1920s and 30s. Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Duke Ellington and other jazz legends are prominent in their repertoire. Great for listening or dancing.
Jul 27 Monday
The carillon is an instrument of bronze bells in a tower played via a keyboard and pedalboard. Summer carillon concerts are free and open to all, including to families and their pets. The music happens rain or shine. This season, all concerts are scheduled at Lurie Tower. When you arrive, take a program from the stand near the tower and have a seat outdoors wherever you like, or bring your own lawn chair or blanket (even your own picnic!). Concert staff wearing nametags will be available to answer questions or direct you to accessible restrooms and other facilities. For best acoustics, sit far enough away from the tower to have a direct line of sight to the bells.
MARGARET PAN is a freelance carillonneur based in Boston. She has performed around the world, including as a featured recitalist at festivals in Europe and North America and at congresses of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America and the World Carillon Federation. She was winner of the 2017 international carillon competition in Springfield, Illinois, and third laureate in the 2019 Queen Fabiola competition in Mechelen, Belgium. Margaret has taught beginning students at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Toronto, and given masterclasses at Yale University and in Toronto. She has also served on the GCNA Examination Committee for over a decade, initially as juror and currently as co-chair.
Margaret began studying carillon in 2007 at Princeton University, graduated from the Royal Carillon School in Belgium in 2012, and was a fellow at Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, Florida in 2015. Her academic degrees (SB and PhD) are in physics and astrophysics, and she works as an astronomer at the Smithsonian Institution studying planetary dynamics in our and other solar systems.
Metered visitor parking is available behind the Walgreen Drama Center. Additional street parking along Bonisteel Blvd. is available after business hours, and metered visitor parking is available by the E.V. Moore Building (lot NC10), the North Campus Recreation Building (lot NC44), and the Art & Architecture Building (lot NC43).