The A2 Vertical View for 6/17/25: Rich Retyi, Communications Director, Ann Arbor District Library
It's more than just books at aadl.org!
FREE CONCERTS ALL ACROSS THE CITY!
MAKE MUSIC DAY RETURNS TO ANN ARBOR ON JUNE 21!
The Ann Arbor District Library and Ann Arbor celebrate Make Music Day on Saturday, June 21—concerts and musical performances all across the city in a daylong celebration of free live music.
Make Music Day is a global music celebration that happens each year on June 21—the summer solstice—with countries around the world and more than 150 cities in the United States hosting musical performances all day long.
This year’s celebration features a full day of musical programming at the Downtown Library, six concerts at AADL’s Westgate Branch, and dozens more concerts and performances all across the city from morning into the evening—inside and outside businesses, on porches, in backyards, and the the streets of Downtown Ann Arbor!
For a Make Music Day map and list of all venues and artists, visit aadl.org/makemusic.
AADL is a proud partner of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, also known as Top of the Park. If you know what that is, great, you know how amazing the start of summer in Ann Arbor is because of it. If you don't know what it is, have I got an amazing few weeks of fun for you!
The Summer Festival happens right on campus by Rackham stretching to North University and it's three weeks of music, food trucks, performance acts, activities for kids, they have a big ol' beer tent, and just all this lawn space to bring a blanket and set up and people watch and listen to music or see latenight movies like Toy Story, The Wild Robot, Wicked, Rebel Without a Cause, and have so so much fun.
Go to A2SF.org and check out all the stuff happening down there, and know that AADL helped bring a few of the big beautiful acts to Ann Arbor this summer, like SQUONK, the Balkan Paradise Orchestra, Kids Rock concerts on Sunday, and so much more. Every day of the week except Mondays through June 29!
THE SUMMER GAME - It's time for the Summer Game!
SUMMER GAME CODE for this week is SCOTTVERTICAL