July 08, 2009
Ann Arbor Summer Festival 2009
![Duffy King, who was playing with Bugs Beddow. I’m just beginning to get an inkling of a notion of the tremendous talent we’re lucky to have in our small corner of the world.](http://relish.myraklarman.com/images/532t.jpg)
![A lot of people fell in love with MC Frontalot at this performance. I may have been one of them. Check out the Bic pen and Petzl headlamp — inspired!](http://relish.myraklarman.com/images/537t.jpg)
![This and the triptych above: Late-night dancing to Orquestra Sensacional — good shots made great with a little help from my friends. (You know who you are.)](http://relish.myraklarman.com/images/550t.jpg)
![I had to crop this one super-close: Sharon Jones has soul to spare! The Dap-Kings were keepin’ the groove sick and tight. This was far and away Rico’s and my favorite Mainstage act. Get your soul-fix here.](http://relish.myraklarman.com/images/542t.jpg)
![This is the first year I got to shoot Mainstage acts: Los Lobos at the Power Center. Seems that all of Ann Arbor’s cool kids (over 40) were in attendance. (You know who you are.)](http://relish.myraklarman.com/images/548t.jpg)
Breathless! That’s me after shooting 16 days (out of 24) at the Festival.
This is the first Festival out of the past three I’ve shot where there wasn’t a performance in the sky above Ingalls Mall. I don’t mind admitting that performers such as Strange Fruit and Heliosphere can make it...