Jessica Mathews / news@whmi.com


The Hamburg Township Library’s Summer Music Festival continues next week.

“The Lunar Octet” Jazz group will be performing on Thursday, July 24th at 7pm, with seating open at 6pm. The concert takes place inside the library and registration is required.

Food and beverages will be available for purchase from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. All vendors are local to the area - Heaven On A Roll food truck, Sip N‘ Smile specialty lemonade drinks, and Imperfectly Sweet desserts.

The event is sponsored in part by the Pinckney, Putnam, Hamburg, Hell Chamber of Commerce.

The Lunar Octet offers creative and original Latin jazz.

A release states “The award-winning band plays highly original and eclectic music drawing on Cuban and Puerto Rican salsa, rock, African high-life music, and Brazilian sambas to forge a new sound enriched by these traditions. Since its debut, the band has carried its high-energy message to dancers and listeners, jazz, R&B, and rock fans alike. Through hundreds of performances, the band has expanded its following among audiences, including in the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival, the Flint Jazz Festival, the Columbus Arts Festival, the Lancaster Festival, the Ann Arbor Art Fair, the WEMU/Depot Town Winter Jazz Series, Rusty's Jazz Cafe, Ann Arbor's Top of the Park, the Bird of Paradise, the Del Rio, Mr. Flood's Party, the Blind Pig, the Detroit Festival of the Arts, Detroit's New Center Park, Toledo's CityFest, Toledo's Rib-Off, the Ann Arbor Art Fair, and many more”.

The Hamburg Township Library is located at 10411 Merrill Road, just south of M-36.

More information is available in the links and attachment or call 810-231-1771.