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Go East Jefferson
Presents "Jazzin' On The River" And Historic
Eastside Bus Tours
DETROIT - Because the Jefferson Avenue Streetscape
Project will be wrapping up in September, we have
moved our annual Jazzin on Jefferson outdoor music
festival to the Detroit Riverfront at A.B. Ford
Park. Help Jefferson East, Inc. celebrate another
Detroit summer with this FREE FAMILY-FRIENDLY
neighborhood event!
www.goeastjefferson.com
MUSIC SCHEDULE:
2 p.m.: Sean Dobbins Organ Quartet
3:30 p.m.: Heritage Works African dance and drumming
4 p.m.: Marion Hayden Sextet
6 p.m.: Planet D Nonet Township Jazz Band
7:45 p.m.: Perry Hughes and OGD
Other highlights include:
African dance and drumming lessons for kids
historic bus tours
food
kayak tours
2 p.m. Tour: http://bit.ly/1KTyFcZ
Twilight Tour: http://bit.ly/1OhcEFC
outdoor recreation
soccer tournament (12:30 p.m.) and workshop
psychedelic face painting
Plus...Miss Purple, the clown from Universoul
Circus!
Free and open to the public! SPECIAL THANKS TO Mack
Avenue Records!
Enjoy a guided bus tour through beautiful and
storied Jefferson-Chalmers on Detroit's lower east
side. Learn about the waterfront community's rich
automotive, bootlegging and jazz era history!
As part of the 2015 Jazzin' on the River event, the
Southeast Waterfront Neighborhood Association (SWNA)
and author Nick Sinacori (The Village of Fairview
Histroical Society and author of Horse Power, Men
and Machines) will host a guided bus tour through
Historic Jefferson-Chalmers.
Date: Saturday, September 26
Where: Meet at Faith Church (897 Piper St. Detroit,
MI 48215)
When: Morning tour (10-11:30 a.m.) and afternoon
tour (noon-1:30 p.m.)
How much: $15/person
To register for 10 a.m. tour, go here. To register
for noon tour, go here.
**Register early, as seating is very limited.
Features include:
o Vanity Ballroom
o Detroit's canal system
o Windmill Pointe, the site of the Fox Indian
Massacre
o former Marlborough Jockey Club
o Fisher Mansion (currently the Bhaktivedanta
Cultural Center)
o Detroit Driving Club
o United Railcar Barn
o the location of Henry Ford's first auto race (he
won!)
o early sites of automotive companies that
eventually became part of the Big 3
o much more!
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