Name: Edgefest 30: Freedom at the Edge
Start: 2026-10-07
End: 2026-10-10

Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea serves coffees, espresso drinks, elegant loose leaf teas, frozen Ice Dragons, desserts, and pastries. Wireless also available.

Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea - Kerrytown

Kerrytown District is a unique blend of neighborhood and business. They are a historic area of downtown Ann Arbor that offers you one-of-a-kind shops, restaurants, markets, delis, concert house, art gallery, Farmers' Market, children's museum, and a rich and diverse culture. Shop, dine, and be entertained, stroll the tree-lined streets and feel the Kerrytown difference!

Kerrytown District Association

Vegan food that everyone will love! The mission of the Detroit Street Filling Station is to prepare high-quality, nutritious vegan food, and to demonstrate the breadth and versatility of plant-based whole foods. Detroit Street Filling Station, when possible, uses local and organic produce, makes everything from scratch from fine ingredients, and emphasizes environmental sustainability. The restaurant features an outdoor patio, weekly live music, and a seasonally changing menu.

Detroit Street Filling Station

Fast and fresh! Customizable noodles, stir-fry's, and rice dishes inspired by Thai cuisine

No Thai!

Zingerman's might be the best deli you’ve ever experienced. This "corner deli" has spent 20 years searching out a bounty of high quality, flavorful ingredients. Rated "extraordinary" by ZAGAT 2006: "a national treasure that locals laud as the best deli in America".

Opened in March of 1982, by Paul Saginaw and Ari Weinzweig in a historic building near the Ann Arbor Farmers’ Market. Serving up thousands of made to order deli sandwiches with ingredients like premium Black Angus corned beef and pastrami, free-range chicken, turkey, housemade chopped liver, and chicken salad.

The Deli also stocks an exceptional array of farmhouse cheeses, unique olive oils, varietal bottles of vinegar, smoked fish, high-quality salami, locally roasted coffee, exquisite teas and locally sourced vegetables for salads.

Today, Zingerman’s Delicatessen is an Ann Arbor institution, the source of great food and great experiences for thousands of visitors every year.

Zingerman's Delicatessen

Established in 1982, Around Town Tours is an Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti tour guide service. Their tour guides are long-time Ann Arbor area residents who know the special spots, and vibrant local color, that make Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti unique.

Around Town Tours, Inc.

Ann Arbor's cooperative natural foods store and café serving the area since 1971. People's Food Co-Op intends to provide healthy foods and at the same time items that are affordable to members and shoppers.

People's Food Co-Op

At Motte & Bailey Booksellers you can find an excellent selection of used and rare scholarly books with strong emphasis on history and science.

Motte & Bailey Booksellers

A Mom and Pop shoe shop in downtown Ann Arbor selling shoes, the low-carbon transportation alternative with just two moving parts.

Fourth Ave Birkenstock

Encore Records is a place for music lovers and collectors who enjoy nothing more than sharing their love and collection with the world. The store buys and sells records, tapes, CDs, DVDs, Blue-ray, sheet music, books on music and musicians, and music memorabilia.

Encore Records

The [Ann Arbor Sports Commission](https://www.annarbor.org/sports-commission/ "Ann Arbor Sports Commission") works diligently to improve the quality of life through sports for all of Washtenaw County. The [Ann Arbor area](https://www.annarbor.org/ "Ann Arbor area") attracts both sports enthusiasts and participants alike. Thanks to its [easy accessibility](https://www.annarbor.org/plan/getting-here-getting-around/ "easy accessibility"), [wide range of facilities](https://www.annarbor.org/sports-commission/facilities-venues/ "wide range of facilities") available and variety of [dining](https://www.annarbor.org/foodanddrink/ "dining") & [entertainment](https://www.annarbor.org/things-to-do/ "entertainment") options, the Ann Arbor area is a favorite of sporting event organizations. The area has a rich sporting culture seeding in the history of two Division 1 athletic programs ([University of Michigan](https://www.annarbor.org/university-of-michigan/ "University of Michigan") and Eastern Michigan University) and several other small institutions. The Ann Arbor Sports was formed to attract amateur sporting events to the Ann Arbor region by assisting organizers every step of the way.

Ann Arbor is a dynamic mix of energy and charm—a bustling university town, a [foodie’s paradise](https://www.annarbor.org/foodanddrink/ "foodie's paradise"), and a cutting-edge tech hub, all wrapped in a [walkable downtown](https://www.annarbor.org/things-to-do/downtown/ "walkable downtown") bursting with [world-class arts and culture](https://www.annarbor.org/things-to-do/arts-culture/ "world-class arts and culture"). Located in Michigan’s southeast Lower Peninsula, Ann Arbor is the heartbeat of a vibrant network of [communities across Washtenaw County](https://www.annarbor.org/surrounding-destinations/ "communities across Washtenaw County"). With its creative spirit, diverse flavors, and unique neighborhoods, Ann Arbor shines as a exciting oasis.

Ann Arbor Sports Commission

Kerrytown Concert House proudly announces Edgefest 2026, its 30th annual four-day festival of new music, improvised and composed. This milestone year carries a theme as expansive as the art form itself: *Freedom at the Edge*.

With freedom as its unifying spirit, Edgefest 2026 gives space and support to a pluralistic and deeply inclusive mosaic of innovative artists and composers, local and international, young and emerging alongside seasoned and established, who will bring their music and collaborations into performance spaces and classrooms throughout the Ann Arbor area.

Edgefest presents world-class cutting-edge jazz, creative improvisation, and category-defying music too often overlooked in the commercial marketplace.

Edgefest 30: Freedom at the Edge

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