29th Annual Hamtramck Labor Day Festival
Friday-Monday September 4-th -7th 2009
Hamtramck MI
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
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
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
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