Ann Arbor Summer Festival: Top of the Park

Ann Arbor Summer Festival: Top of the Park 2026 Dates: June 12-28

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6 nights per week The indoor Mainstage series includes ticketed performances of world-class music, dance, circus, and comedy.
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✨ 200+ FREE concerts & events to discover✨
The best part of summer in Ann Arbor.
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The Ann Arbor Summer Festival is an exhilarating celebration of performing arts, outdoor entertainment, and community spirit. The nearly four-week gathering offers dozens of performances, activities, exhibitions, and screenings representative of the best in music, dance, contempo

rary circus, comedy, film, spectacle, street arts, and family entertainment. Founded by Eugene Power, and established as an equal partnership between the City of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival presented its first full season in 1984. Early festival seasons emphasized classical music and theater, but have since become more popular and diverse in nature, encompassing a breadth of performance genres. What began with a vision for a summer cultural event that would connect audiences with world-class artists, bring community together, and showcase the city and state as a major arts destination, now flourishes as one of the leading multi-arts festivals in the country. Today, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival produces two concurrent programs, one indoor and one outdoor, at various venues and spaces across the University of Michigan campus and in downtown Ann Arbor. The outdoor program, Top of the Park, is held along a beautiful campus green and offers admission-free concerts, blockbuster movies by moonlight, open-air spectacles, and unique family attractions. The Ann Arbor Summer Festival offers a progressive mix of regional, national, and international artists of all disciplines. Presenting over 200 scheduled events each season and attracting a diverse audience of over 80,000 people, the festival continues to grow as a major cultural event in the Ann Arbor community, and as an internationally recognized celebration of arts that enriches the cultural, economic, and social vitality of the region. For over three decades, the festival has hosted such luminaries as Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Cash, Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Marcel Marceau, Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Garrison Keillor, Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, Gladys Knight, Chris Isaak, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, Ingrid Michaelson, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Andrew Bird, Lily Tomlin, Circa, Steve Martin, Trombone Shorty, The Indigo Girls, John Waters, Gregory Allan Isakov, Bernadette Peters, Cake, Lyle Lovett, Momix, k.d. lang, Ira Glass, Buddy Guy, Feist, Mayer Hawthorne, John Hiatt, Taylor Mac, The Moth Mainstage, Ani Difranco, Meow Meow, Los Lobos, Diana Krall, Patty Griffin and Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me! In addition to its mainstream presentations and regional artists, recent outdoor spectacle installations and performances offerings have included Australia’s Strange Fruit, The Architects of Air, Transe Express, Wild bytes’ Superhero, The Dream Engine, Erth’s Dinosaurs, Close Act Theatre’s Saurus, Polyglot’s Tangle, The Water Balloon Gladiators, David Zinn, Mucca Pazza, March Fourth! and many more!

Did you catch David Zinn in action with his incredible sidewalk chalk creatures at Top of the Park this season? ☀️✨
08/31/2026

Did you catch David Zinn in action with his incredible sidewalk chalk creatures at Top of the Park this season? ☀️✨

No A2SF memory is safe from the Jam Sesh photobomb. 🍺🎶☀️End your summer with our limited edition A2SF Jam Sesh, brewed b...
08/28/2026

No A2SF memory is safe from the Jam Sesh photobomb. 🍺🎶☀️

End your summer with our limited edition A2SF Jam Sesh, brewed by our friends at Griffin Claw Brewing Company (GCBC)! Still available for a while longer at select local retailers while supplies last.

A2SF photos from past seasons: Myra Klarman 📷

Please take a few minutes to complete our short 2026 season survey and help shape the future of A2SF. Complete the surve...
07/30/2026

Please take a few minutes to complete our short 2026 season survey and help shape the future of A2SF. Complete the survey by TOMORROW Friday, July 31, and we’ll randomly select a winner to receive a $50 Visa gift card as a token of our appreciation. 🎶☀️

# # Welcome to the Ann Arbor Summer Festival's Top of the Park Visitor Survey! We are thrilled you joined us today, and your feedback is crucial in helping us continue to provide an outstanding experience for all attendees. We would appreciate your response in helping us understand our program devel....

ICYMI, our 2026 Top of the Park season photo gallery is live! Check it out and relive all of the fun! 📸: Doug Coombe
07/28/2026

ICYMI, our 2026 Top of the Park season photo gallery is live! Check it out and relive all of the fun! 📸: Doug Coombe

2026 Ann Arbor Summer Festival Ann Arbor, MI June 12-28, 2026 All Photos by Doug Coombe

So many 2026 season memories, so hard to choose just a few photos for each post! Suppose we’ll just have to keep posting...
07/15/2026

So many 2026 season memories, so hard to choose just a few photos for each post! Suppose we’ll just have to keep posting them and reliving all of the fun. ✨ Shout out to Doug Coombe for capturing all of the best moments. 📷

We’d love to hear about your experience this season at Top of the Park. Please take a few minutes to complete our short survey and help shape the future of A2SF. Complete the survey by Friday, July 31, and we’ll randomly select a winner to receive a $50 Visa gift card as a token of our appreciation. 🎶☀️

Survey link: https://aasummerfest.survey.fm/summer-2026-post-season-a2sf-visitor-survey

That’s a wrap on our 43rd season, and what a season it was! We’d love to hear about your experience this season at Top o...
07/08/2026

That’s a wrap on our 43rd season, and what a season it was! We’d love to hear about your experience this season at Top of the Park. Please take a few minutes to complete our short survey and help shape the future of A2SF. Complete the survey by Friday, July 31, and we’ll randomly select a winner to receive a $50 Visa gift card as a token of our appreciation. ☀️🎶

Survey Link: https://aasummerfest.survey.fm/summer-2026-post-season-a2sf-visitor-survey

Enjoy these photos from the 2026 season and relive all of the fun! Lots more memories to come. ✨

📷: Doug Coombe

06/29/2026

Lady Sunshine and the X-Band kept the So Long Sunday party going at Top of the Park! Hard to believe our 43rd season is already over, time truly flies when you’re having fun! Thank you to Washtenaw Community College for being a Lead Sponsor of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival in 2026 and for sponsoring last night’s incredible performances. ☀️🎶

06/29/2026

All good things must come to an end… that is until next year! That’s a wrap on our 43rd season at Top of the Park, and it wouldn’t be So Long Sunday without George Bedard and the Kingpins!

Thank you to Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation for being a lead sponsor this season and for all of their generous support.

It’s been an incredible 2026, we can’t wait to see you all for the 2027 Ann Arbor Summer Festival! ☀️🎶✨

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915 E. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI
48109

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Tuesday 5pm - 11:45pm
Wednesday 5pm - 11:45pm
Thursday 5pm - 11:45pm
Friday 5pm - 11:45pm
Saturday 5pm - 11:45pm
Sunday 5pm - 11:45pm

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