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