UPCOMING EVENT: 29th Annual Hamtramck Labor Day Festival - Fri-Mon Sept 4th-7th 2009

29th Annual Hamtramck Labor Day Festival

Friday-Monday September 4-th -7th 2009
Hamtramck MI

The 29th Annual Hamtramck Labor Day Festival will take place Friday, Sept. 4th - Monday, Sept. 7th in downtown Hamtramck. This year's festivities include all the age-old traditions that have made this event a regional favorite, as well as many multicultural offerings that only Hamtramck -- Michigan's most ethnically diverse city -- can offer.

This event will offer high-quality entertainment

that all families can afford.

Highlights include the Hamtramck Schools Reunion

(Sunday, Sept. 6 - all classes/all Hamtramck school alumni welcome),

the Polish Day Parade

(Monday, Sept. 7 from 1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.),

carnival rides, dunk tank, tons of vendors,

a World Music stage, beer tents, ethnic foods and programming,

children's activities and much more.

This family event is free and open to the public.

Music headliners include New York-based indie darlings, V2 Records' Ra Ra Riot (whose sound Rolling Stone describes as a "combination of Arcade Fire's orchestral reveries and Vampire Weekend's pop sensibility,") and 1950s rockabilly legend, Jack Scott ("They Way I Walk" and "Goodbye Baby").

Beloved festival mainstay,

The Polish Muslims will headline as well.

2009 Festival lineup:
FRIDAY, SEPT. 4th
SOUTH STAGE (alt-country and rock)

7:30 p.m. Duende!

8:30 p.m. Lightning Love

9:30 p.m. Doop & the Inside Outlaws

NORTH STAGE (rock 'n' roll)

7 p.m. The Displays

8 p.m. Spitting Nickels

9 p.m.Troy Gregory

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 5
SOUTH STAGE (roots)
3 p.m. Rise of the Peaceballon

5:30 p.m. Bones Maki's Big Barn Combo

7 p.m. Michael Hurtt & his Haunted Hearts

9 p.m. Jack Scott

NORTH STAGE (country)
4 p.m. Derringer

6:15 p.m. Skin and Bones

8 p.m. The Orbitsuns

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SUNDAY, SEPT. 6

SOUTH STAGE- (various)

11 a.m. Polka Mass with “Big Daddy Lackowski”

1 p.m. Pierogi Eating Contest

4 p.m. Rocky Loves Emily

7 p.m. Battling Siki

8 p.m. Terrible Twos

9 p.m. RA RA RIOT

(NY)NORTH STAGE (nostalgia)

noon-4:30 p.m. Legends Live! All-star Impersonators Review

5 p.m. PLAV 10 Karaoke Contest Finalist

6 p.m.The Polish Muslims

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MONDAY, SEPT. 7
SOUTH STAGE (Polish)
3 p.m. Polish Dancers

3:30 p.m. Misty Blues

5:45 p.m. Polka Floyd

7:30 p.m. Trio Pokolenie

NORTH STAGE (World Music)

4: 15 p.m. Bengladeshi Music Group

6:15 p.m. Hilmija Hot (Bosnian pop)

7 p.m. Odu Afrobeat Orchestra