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

Sophisticated dining featuring more than 150 wines by the bottle and by the glass. Menu features fresh and unique ingredients that create wine-friendly world cuisine. Small plates, specialty artisan cheeses, traditional entrees with a nouveau twist, and house-made desserts. Serves lunch and dinner on two levels. Photo Credit: Meg Darket Photography

Vinology

Ahmo's is a favorite lunch spot serving up its popular chicken gyro. Other menu items range from grilled cheese and hot dogs to creamy hummus, grape-leaf rolls, and freshly tossed fattoush.

Ahmo's Gyros and Deli

The Crazy Wisdom Bookstore offers over 14,000 titles in psychology, spirituality, and holistic health; jewelry, crafts, instruments, and other items. Tearoom with over 100 kinds of tea, plus soups, sandwiches, coffees, and desserts.

Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room

Bohemian-styled setting offering, up a delicious variety of vegan bakery goods & custom cakes.

Big City Small World Bakery

A relaxed and friendly neighborhood tavern, featuring an eclectic menu and weekly specials.

Casey's Tavern

Bar featuring beers brewed in their cellar. Selection of craft beer cocktails, assortment of beer and bourbon drinks. Snacks and sliders available. Live music playing regularly.

Mash

The Blue Nile Restaurant features Ethiopian cuisine in a culturally rich dining atmosphere. Their variety of dishes, including a number of vegetarian options, will leave you fully satisfied. Offering patio dining in the summer season. Please call ahead or visit online for updated hours and information.

Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant

A bistro-style farm-to-table restaurant with casual elegance. A very popular spot to stop for brunch!

Cafe Zola

Housed in a century-old building with a warm, casual atmosphere. The menu focuses on fresh ingredients and seasonal items, prepared from scratch. On-site brewery creates handcrafted beers.

Grizzly Peak Brewing Company

Amadeus is a cozy, old-style European restaurant with candlelight and live classical music. Featuring Polish, Hungarian, and Austrian traditional foods and spirits as well as vegetarian and seafood entrées.

Amadeus

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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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