WHAT’S GOING ON
Ann Arbor’s festive FoolMoon and FestiFools events return.
Select events happening in metro Detroit this week. Submit your events to metrotimes.com/calendar. Be sure to check venue websites for COVID-19 policies.
FRI 4/1 & SUN 4/3 FoolMoon and FestiFools
Grab your glow sticks and head to Ann Arbor for this funky annual festival of art, light displays, costumes, and good old-fashioned merriment. FoolMoon is going down on Friday with interactive, light filled e periences in errytown, Main Street, and State Street districts. Check out local businesses, join familyfriendly arts and craft activities, or just dress up in a funky costume and stroll around town. Sunday is FestiFools, where street performers put on a wacky parade with massive, whimsical puppets. You can stand and watch the procession, but it’s better if you join in and dance. Sound foolish? Well, duh, that’s the point — it is April Fool’s Day after all. The whole weekend is about letting your inner child out to play, releasing inhibitions, and getting silly, which are things we all need to do after the last two years. —Randiah Camille Green
FoolMoon is from 6-10 p.m. on Friday, April in Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown, Main Street, and State Street districts. The FestiFools parade is from 4-5 p.m. on Sunday, April 3 on State Street. Maps of the parade route and FoolMoon festivities are available at wonderfoolproductions.org.
FRI 4/1 Techno & House Research Group third anniversary party
What started as friends sharing music on Facebook has since become Techno & House Research Group, a YouTube channel and curator of the annual THRG live event. For its third anniversary, the group is bringing DJs Swisha and ush ones from ew ork City for their Detroit debut. They join a lineup that includes s, Diego, and other THRG DJs. —Lee DeVito From 8 p.m.-2 a.m. on Friday, April 1 at Marble Bar; 1501 Holden St., Detroit; 313-338-3674; themarblebar.com. Tickets start at $8 advance.
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SAT 4/2 John Salvage & New Twenty Saints
John Salvage is a Hamtramck-viaToledo singer-songwriter who moved to the Detroit area about a decade ago, originally for grad school before realizing that his true passion was music. He dropped his debut record, Coyote Hasten, last year; its release was delayed by the pandemic. ince then, he’s fleshed his sound out with a live band made up of irk carborough, osh udiongan, and Evan Eklund. On the group’s latest LP, Nikita, the sound is further fleshed out with the addition of Maritza Garibay on violin on the title track, and Todd Mc ulty on accordion on Trouble oys.” The record is released via Outer Limits Records and gets a release party on Saturday at Outer Limits Lounge. Milk ath is also on the bill, as well as D s am am and lake ill. —Lee DeVito Doors at 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 2 at ter imits o e iff t. Detroit; outerlimitslounge.com. Tickets are $8.
4/2, 4/6 & 4/10 La bohème
Imagine what it would be like to live life in reverse. Your soul comes into your body at death, your health steadily improves, and you go from painful breakups to rediscovering love with your partner. This is pretty much what the Detroit Opera House has done with this trio of performances of La bohème. For this run, the classic Giacomo Puccini opera has been reimagined and will be presented in reverse order. This e perimental production is apparently the first time this play has been staged from end to beginning, and is a co production with oston yric Opera and Spoleto Festival USA. We imagine it’ll be like one of those movies where you already know what happens at the end, and the fun is in watching how the characters end up there. —Randiah Camille Green Showtimes are 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 10 at the Detroit Opera House is located at 1526 Broadway St, Detroit; 313-237-7464; michiganopera. org. Tickets start at $29.
