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whether you're looking for family fun or date night out, we've got some fun for you this weekend
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through the Ann Arbor Observer and it's many events that it collects. The guy who does it
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is Michael Bright. I know you've got a great staff of people helping you too. Your colleagues
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out at the Ann Arbor Observer. Welcome back and he is the Assistant Calendar Editor and puts together
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not only day by day but hour by hour. What's happening over the entire month, every month you do this?
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Over and over again. It's amazing. You really get to know our town. What's happening this weekend?
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Well, yeah. A lot of stuff happened in this weekend. This is kind of middle of March. I feel
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like every weekend we have a whole bunch of plays coming on and everything. I think everybody
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starts practicing at the beginning of January and then showtime comes around this time of year.
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So we got a couple plays. Professional Youth Theatre of Michigan is doing a show out at Riverside
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Art Center in Ypsilani. It's kind of a family-friendly show. All weekend it's going to be 101 Dalmatian
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kids. It's got a big cast of young actors, kind of grades two to five. Oh my goodness. It's an
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adaptation of the 101 Dalmatians movie six to eight PM Friday six and eight PM two shows Friday
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and Saturday a noon matinee and a two PM matinee Saturday and Sunday. There's a whole I think there's
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two casts going a lot of kids playing in this 20 to $30 tickets for that. All right. Next one is
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is this a kids offering two? It's it's a music. It's Into the Woods which is a musical kind of a more
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of a grown-up musical mashup of the Brother Grims fairy tales. It's being put on by U of M Muscat
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which is a really good group of U of M students not all musical theater students but a lot of them are
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and they kind of independently put on shows twice a year. So this is down at the power center
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going 7 30 PM Friday and Saturday and a two PM Sunday tickets for that in advance you can go to
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ummusket.org. We're continuing with the Irish fair this weekend. Well, we just had St. Patrick's
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right. So I throw it in here. Okay. It's a cool gig going on at Hill Auditorium Friday night
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an Irish celebration. It's put on by Martin Hayes and the common ground ensemble. It's a
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university musical society production but they just played over at Carnegie Hall and
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to really great reviews. But this Martin Hayes is a really good fiddler and he's got this ensemble
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and they do traditional Irish songs dancing and then some experimental takes on the traditional
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theme. So they've been really well reviewed. Very high energy if you still in the Irish
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mood from St. Patrick's Day 7 30 PM Friday night at Hill. All right. The Blue Lama, another one of
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our treasures in downtown Ann Arbor. Who's there this weekend? Oh, yeah, they got a great act
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coming Friday night. It's Linda May Han O who's one of the top bassists out there right now.
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She is a Malaysian born by way of Australia but she now is based in New York City but she came
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on playing with Pat Mithini and VJ Eyre in the early 2000s and kind of gone off on her own
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but she usually plays with kind of the kind of the creme de la creme of jazz kind of softer jazz
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quieter instrumental jazz. Two shows. Two shows Friday night 7 and 9 PM. They're $50 tickets but
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if you want dinner and a show they're 95 so you get a three-course dinner and two. Oh, the food
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at the Blue Lama is pretty darn good too. So I mean you think you got a $45 extra for a three-course
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dinner. It's not so bad. No, not at all. That's great. This should be a great show. So 7 and 9 PM
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Friday night. Okay. Let's move to the big home show that's happening sponsored by the Builders
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and Remodel's Association of Greater Ann Arbor. Yeah, this is fun every year. They do out at the
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Washington Farm Council grounds. This is a chance to check out over 120 exhibitors demonstrating
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products and other home improvement services from the area. It's just a great way to connect if
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you're interested in remodeling your home or just want to see possibilities and start thinking
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about it. It's a great way to check out what's available in the area. So $5 gets you in
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out at the Selene Farm Council grounds. 9 AM to 6 PM Saturday and then 10 AM to 5 PM Sunday.
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All right. We have one more event this weekend. Intribute to a great artist from Ann Arbor.
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I remember when he graduated from the University of Michigan back in the 70s and then in 1980 his
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debut album Snap. I can still hear it today. Yeah, Dick Siegel. He's not performing as much
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anymore, but they're doing a tribute show for him down at the at the arc on Sunday.
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Really huge lineup of local greats. I mean, George Bedard's playing Mr. B. Chris
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Buhalis, Annie and Rod Caps, Peter Rumegg, Kat Ruth, Randy Tessier, Brennan-Andes. Billy,
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I mean, it goes on and on. So local musical acts coming out of the woodwork to just play a lot
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of Dick's music and celebrate his legacy there. I love that. That's nice. It's Sunday show at the
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arcs. I think it's a 7 PM earlier show, but it should be close to sold out, but there might be
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a few tickets left and it's natural. All right. So much going on. So many talented people in our
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community. We're so fortunate to live in Ann Arbor and our thanks to Michael Bright with the Ann
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Arbor Observer with some of the events going on this weekend for more details. Go online to
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Ann Arbor Observer.com. This is 1290 WLBY.