Gemini Childrens Music Concert and Event Schedule
2008
JULY
July 18, Friday
11:30am
248-837-2852
Madison Heights Public Library, 240 W. 13 Mile Rd.Madison Heights, MI
A free, outdoor Gemini Family Concert.
July 19, Saturday
3:00pm
St. Joseph Catholic Church, 3430 Dover St., Dexter, MI
Gemini will be one of a number of performers at the Summer Festival sponsored by the church.
July 20, Sunday
1:00 PM
248-473-1856
Memorial Park, downtown Farmington (Grand River and Farmington Rd.)
A free outdoor Gemini Family Concert
July 22, Tuesday
11:00am
248-349-0203 x 1411
"Tunes on Tuesday" at Town Square, Downtown Northville, MI
A free, outdoor Gemini Family Concert.
July 23, Wednesday
6:30pm
248-541-5717
The Detroit Zoo, Royal Oak, MI
Our annual summer concert at the Zoo, always one of the highlights of our outdoor season.
July 24, Thursday
10:30am
517-546-7200
Howell Library, 314 Grand River, Howell, MI
A free Gemini Family Concert.
July 24, Thursday
7:00pm
734-439-1549
Wilson Park, Milan, MI
A free, outdoor Gemini Family Concert.
July 26, Saturday
1:00 PM
734-475-1555
Chelsea Summer Festival, downtown Chelsea
A free outdoor Gemini Family Concert
July 29, Tuesday
7:00 PM
616-772-6400
Lawrence Park, Zeeland, MI
A free outdoor Gemini Family Concert. feelthezeel.com
AUGUST
August 2, Saturday
Riverfolk Music Festival, Manchester, MI
We will be part of this wonderful festival which will feature nationally known singer-songwriter Vienna Teng, the hard-driving Celtic and Bagpipe band MacTall Mor, and Corey Ledet and his Zydeco Band. There will also be a craft fair, and lots of fun activities for children and families. riverfolkfestival.org
August 13, Wednesday
7:00pm
248-889-8660
Veterans Park, 205 W. Livingston, Highland, MI
A free, outdoor Gemini Family Concert.
August 16, Saturday
2:00 PM
Ypsilanti Heritage Festival
We will be performing in the Children's Area of this free community festival. ypsilantiheritagefestival.com
August 30, Saturday
8:00 PM
734-327-0270
Cafe 704, in Ann Arbor
The coffee house concert series of the Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth
Laz will present a variety of new music on spiritual themes. This will be the premier performance of some of these works, which will be released on two separate CDs later this year. The first will focus on Laz's musical settings of the poetry of Hafiz, the 14th Century Persian mystic. The second will feature new song-settings of Rumi, the 13th Century Sufi poet, whose lyrics Laz first set to music in last year's acclaimed CD "Give Light." Rumi and Hafiz, in translations by Coleman Barks and Daniel Ladinsky (whose versions Laz set to music) have been the best selling-poets in America for nearly two decades now. The concert will also feature some of Laz's musical settings of the poetry of Emily Dickinson—both some of the famous, well-known poems, and a number of lovely, relatively unknown ones.
For this special concert Laz will be joined by his wife, Helen, on flute and Celtic Harp, Lori Fithian (of "Drummunity") on percussion, and her brother Eric Fithian on guitar and bass. So tthe band should really be called Laz and Friends and Family! The four friends (and family) have played music together in various combinations of duos and trios for a number of years, but this is the band's first concert as a quartet.
Admission by donation. Free, convenient parking, smoke-free, alcohol-free, refreshments available. The Center is located at 704 Airport Blvd., Ann Arbor MI 48108, just south of I-94 off State Street. But click here for directions because Mapquest doesn't know how to find it yet!
SEPTEMBER
September 4, Thursday
10:00am
734-662-8439
Washtenaw County Farm Council Fairgrounds, Saline, MI
A Gemini Family Concert at the Saline Community Fair.
OCTOBER
October 17-19, Friday-Sunday
989-832-6235
Tri-City (Bay City, Midland and Saginaw) Jewish Communities
San and Laz will present a weekend residency, including music in the Friday evening Shabbat service, a workshop for children on Saturday afternoon, a Saturday evening program for adults, and a concert for families on Sunday morning.
October 26, Sunday
3:00pm
305-279-3007
"Sunday Afternoons of Music" Gusman Concert Hall, U of Miami campus, Coral Gables, FL
A Gemini Family Concert, with a local children's choir.
NOVEMBER
November 9, Sunday
4:00pm
734-994-4801
Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI
A Gemini Family Concert with the Ann Arbor Symphony!
November 30, Sunday
1:00pm
734-994-4801
The Ark Coffeehouse, Ann Arbor, MI
A special Thanksgiving benefit concert with some of our favorite guest musicians.

