Django Django publicity photo

Counting a one-song encore that seemed more of an afterthought (the lights had already come up and people were leaving when the band came back), the whole show clocked in at one shortish hour.

Maybe an hour was all they were contracted to do. Maybe they were disappointed the show didn’t sell better, and cut out early (there was mention of checking out the pubs in “Ann Harbor”). Or maybe that’s all folks get nowadays for $20-$25 a ticket. At any rate, the main floor center section was just semi-full, a handful of people were in the flanking sections and the balcony appeared empty. The Ann Arbor Summer Festival, which presented the show, can’t have been happy at the turnout.

Django Django is a mostly Scottish rock quartet that’s been making a lot of noise in Europe. The band’s sound is as if 1960s surf guitar master Dick Dale suddenly found himself in the midst of Kraftwerk’s early electronica, and then tripped over some 1980s New Order and maybe some 1990s techno. With bird song and sirens mixed in here and there.

Singer and guitarist Vincent Neff may have been front and center with his monotone-ish vocals, but it was the percussion and synthesizers that stood out, at least volumewise. Drummer and producer David Maclean and synth player Tommy Grace worked themselves into a frenzy behind their respective instruments (I counted six keyboards at Maclean’s station). Such was the mix, I sometimes forgot that talented bassist Jimmy Dixon was in the house as well.

MIchelle Chamuel performs on "The Voice" on Monday.

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On Tuesday night's season finale of NBC's singing competition, "The Voice," the Swon Brothers came in third place, by virtue of earning the fewest viewer votes; former Ann Arborite and My Dear Disco/Ella Riot front woman Michelle Chamuel came in second place; and Danielle Bradbery, a 16 year old from Texas, won the prize.

The annual FestiFools parade every April in downtown Ann Arbor encourages all kinds of foolishness.

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There are two awards this year — one shared by Jeri Rosenberg and Vic Strecher, and another going to John Carver.

Michigan Theater CEO and executive director Russ Collins

Here's an excerpt from a press release issued by the Michigan Theater.

Michigan Theater executive director Russ Collins has been named to the inaugural Indiewire Influencers list, along with 39 other film industry movers and shakers such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Forest Whitaker, Robert Rodriguez, and Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League. According to Indiewire, this "list of the smartest, most innovative and forward-thinking filmmakers, content producers, distributors, financiers and curators who are turning the creative world on its head" includes "people and companies who are bending technology to their creative wills, and, in turn, providing filmmakers and film lovers with the tools that allow the best content to be created and discovered in the 21st century." Read more at indiewire.com/article/welcome-to-the-2013-indiewire-infuencers and check out Russ' interview at indiewire.com/influencers/collins-russ.

Jenn McKee is an entertainment reporter for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at jennmckee@annarbor.com or 734-623-2546, and follow her on Twitter @jennmckee.

Bob Seger performs at EMU in 2011.

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Seger will perform with one of the 3 finalists, the Swon Brothers, who performed Seger's "Turn the Page" on the show last week; and former Ann Arborite and My Dear Disco/Ella Riot front woman Michelle Chamuel is one of the finalists who will be awaiting the announcement of the competition's winner on Tuesday night. She's expected to perform with special guest One Republic. (16 year old Danielle Bradbery, who will likely sing with Hunter Hayes, is the third finalist.)

This year, AABF will feature a pre-festival workshop for cartoonists, educators and librarians to discuss the growing role comics and graphic novels play in library collections and the classroom; Moonlight Book Crawls, made up of evening readings at local bookstores (Nicola’s Books and Literati) and restaurants (Quarter Bistro, Sava’s, Bill’s Beer Garden, and soon-to-be-opened Aventura); a keynote address by National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith and her husband, Edgar Award winning mystery writer Bruce DeSilva, followed by Leader in Literary Arts (LILA) Award presentations to longtime AABF board chairman Evans Young and Ann Arbor’s mystery bookstore Aunt Agatha’s; and an all-day writer’s conference (with a lunchtime talk by Smith and DeSilva).

photo by Sean Carter Photography | courtesy of the Purple Rose Theatre Co.

But the fateful way that love blooms between two people is similar to the way that artists sometimes come together; chance and timing play a significant role.

5 p.m.: KidZone: U-M Museum of Natural History - Kidzone Tent
Examine some of the fantastic fossils and casts from the museum’s collection and make your own dinosaur hats and feet.