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Grex > Agora46 > #75: Ann Arbor Art Fairs, they're baack! | |
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dcat
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response 66 of 82:
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Jul 18 20:17 UTC 2003 |
They're still working on the building at State & Washington during the day,
so they couldn't ask someone to try playing music there. They moved the AA
Art Center info booth up there, and *we've* been having trouble being heard.
Thursday they were pumping concrete up to the sixth floor or something; it
was *quite* loud.
Also, the Free Press's "official" guide to the Art Fair is absolutely
trash; they left out a bunch of information booths from the map (and left *in*
the old tram round the Fairs that hasn't run in several years), so I wouldn't
be surprised if you're looking on that and not finding stages that do, in
fact, exist.
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tod
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response 67 of 82:
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Jul 18 20:19 UTC 2003 |
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dcat
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response 68 of 82:
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Jul 18 21:45 UTC 2003 |
resp:67 - No.
The *good* guide to the Art Fairs is produced by the local monthly magazine
Ann Arbor Observer. Don't think the Ann Arbor News does much more than a map
in one section.
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other
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response 69 of 82:
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Jul 18 22:42 UTC 2003 |
Jon, you work for the AAAC?
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dcat
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response 70 of 82:
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Jul 18 23:04 UTC 2003 |
I've been volunteering for AAAC and the Street Art Fair ("the Original") at
information booths this week, but I don't otherwise work for either group.
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gelinas
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response 71 of 82:
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Jul 19 04:51 UTC 2003 |
I usually visit only the one fair. I like it's new location. Unfortunately,
other committments left me time for only one relatively quick circuit on
Wednesday. I liked what I saw, but nothing specific, other than Stephen Zeh's
baskets, comes to mind right now.
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janc
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response 72 of 82:
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Jul 19 04:51 UTC 2003 |
In previous years the Observer Guide has been the "Official" guide. I gather
some of the Observer people were annoyed that that designation had been given
to the Free Press without even consulting the Observer. The Observer went
ahead and did a nice guide anyway, but I wonder if the long article in the
front about the aging of the Art Fairs and the decline in attendence isn't
a small indication of annoyance. Hey, if they aren't official, they don't
have to be nice.
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krj
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response 73 of 82:
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Jul 19 15:24 UTC 2003 |
Concur with Scott in resp:65 :: it seems like the main official stages
are all gone, or at least moved somewhere I haven't found them.
Haven't found any music more ambitious than Mr. B's boogie-woogie piano.
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scott
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response 74 of 82:
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Jul 19 16:51 UTC 2003 |
I found myself more interested this morning, so I spent a couple hours between
Main & State streets. Aside from the usual Ecuadoran guys at Liberty &
Division there was almost nothing - a couple random guys with electronic
pianos in a couple of spots. Never did see anything which looked like a
stage.
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dcat
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response 75 of 82:
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Jul 19 19:57 UTC 2003 |
resp:73 - as far as I'm aware, there are only four performance areas
besides Mr B & a "barefoot violinist" at South U & Forest: WEMU Stage, @ Church
& Willard; South U & Tappan; South U & East U; and Ingalls Mall a bit below
Washington. Not sure if there was anything at Liberty Plaza as well. Also not
sure by how much that's less than previously --- has there ever been a stage
downtown? I remember a clown, but that's it.
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scott
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response 76 of 82:
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Jul 19 21:35 UTC 2003 |
Used to be a big stage at Liberty Plaza, another at State & Washington, and
yet another at Liberty (or maybe Washington) & Ashley. An actual stage, a
PA system, bands, etc. And that's only what we had recently. Back around
1980 there was a really cool stage on the diag too. Oh, and within 5 years
ago there was music at State & Thompson, too.
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dcat
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response 77 of 82:
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Jul 19 22:15 UTC 2003 |
Would've been Liberty at Ashley, as this is the first year there's anything
anywhere on Washington. Was that beyond the food court, or replaced by it?
I didn't make it that far down Liberty this year.
Not sure what you mean by State & Thompson, but those streets don't intersect.
Liberty & Thompson? That'd be too close to Liberty Plaza. . .
Did notice that only WEMU seemed to have a real stage. Not sure what the deal
is. Someone suggested the amount of construction in the area, but I'm curious
if the combination of the sluggish economy & the cost of the lawsuits btwn
Street Art Fair & South U Area Assoc. had anything to do with it . . . .
(i.e., cutting down on their ability to pay artists to perform, to rent
equipment, etc.)
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scott
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response 78 of 82:
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Jul 20 00:05 UTC 2003 |
Oops, Liberty & Thompson. Usually just a tent with a steel band.
The Liberty & Ashley stage was down by Ashley, sort of capping off the food
court.
Used to be you'd always hear music, sometimes from a couple different
directions at once.
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gelinas
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response 79 of 82:
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Jul 20 00:54 UTC 2003 |
Kleefeld was playing his piano, or his CDs, behind the Sailing Club booth on
Liberty. A harpist was three booths east of the Pioneer Water Polo drink
booth. I heard music from the sunken garden at Liberty and Division, but I
didn't investigate closely when walking that area.
Jeremy Kittel was fiddling on Ingalls Mall while I was in that area on
Wednesday.
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dcat
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response 80 of 82:
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Jul 20 01:02 UTC 2003 |
Al Hill was playing an electric piano keyboard thing at South & East U at 5ish
this afternoon. Don't know if he'd been there all week.
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mrmat
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response 81 of 82:
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Jul 20 02:33 UTC 2003 |
There was music at Liberty Plaza, but neither the Art Fair or Herb
David promoted the site as an entertainment venue. Our band had to put
up flyers to advertise our appearance. The entertainment areas really
got little attention in the Art Fair Guide or in the paper.
I know that this is supposed to be an Art Fair, but there should be
complete information for all activities associated with it.
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dcat
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response 82 of 82:
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Jul 20 20:16 UTC 2003 |
resp:81 - I think the Free Press spent so much money to become "Official
Guide" to the Art Fairs, they forgot to spend any on producing the guide
itself. One of the many things they left out was the entertainment listings.
Not sure what the Observer's excuse is for their puny entertainment section,
though.
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