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Summer Festivals With Jazz

Michigan is blessed with plenty of festivals with jazz during the summer. The two big ones are the Michigan Jazz Festival on July 21 and the Labor Day weekend Detroit International Jazz Festival at Hart Plaza. But there are several others worth remembering, even though at press time we cannot provide detailed schedules for all of them.

  • Art Tatum Jazz Heritage Festival in Toledo
    June 15 (see calendar)

  • Ann Arbor Summer Festival at the Power Center
    (in late June and early July, see calendar)

  • Comerica Michigan TasteFest in the New Center area of Detroit
    July 3-7 (see partial listing in calendar)

  • Birmingham Jazz Fest in Shain Park
    July 18-20 (call 248-644-5832)

  • Concert of Colors at Chene Park in Detroit, with
    Ray Charles, Femi Kuti, Hugh Masakela, Susie Ibara, and others
    July 19-21 (call 313-393-0292)

  • Afro-American Music Festival on Hart Plaza in Detroit
    July 26-28 (313-863-5554)

  • Suttons Bay Jazz Fest in Marina Park
    July 27 (231-271-4444)

  • Sterlingfest Art & Jazz Fest downtown Sterling Heights
    August 1-3 (586-446-2489)

  • Old Town Lansing Jazz Festival
    August 2-4 (517-371-4600)

  • Taylor Blues Festival
    August 9-10 (734-374-3906)

  • Idlewild Jazz Festival, Williams Island, Idlewild
    August 10-11 (313-965-0505) see calendar

  • African World Festival at Hart Plaza
    August 16-18

  • Heritage Festival in Ypsilanti
    August 16-18

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