Ira Glass will perform at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival June 23. The Lamp Post Inn will offer special hotel rates for that evening.

Esperanza Spalding – Bassist, vocalist, and composer Esperanza Spalding has quickly emerged as one of the brightest lights in the musical world. With a unique and style-spanning presence, Spalding became the first jazz musician to receive the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2011. Spalding tours in support of her newest album, “Radio Music Society.”

A shuttle service operates twelve times per day between Detroit Metro Airport and Ann Arbor. Guests interested in the schedules and cost (between $20.00 and $25.00 per round trip) should go directly to http://www.michiganflyer.com/airride-ann-arbor.asp .

The Lamp Post Inn will provide a special donation to the tornado relief effort for any of our guests that participate in the Dexter Wellness Walk.

The Lamp Post Inn offers special hotel rates for those individuals attending the various workshops and courses given by Hollander’s.

The hills, trees and backwoods riverbanks of Michigan’s Huron River Drive are the setting for the annual Dexter to Ann Arbor Run, a road race event with a half-marathon, a 10K, a 5K and a kids fun run that takes runners on a course exactly as its name suggests, from the town of Dexter along an eastward route along the Huron River to the finish in downtown Ann Arbor. The event also includes a separate 10k, the USATF 10k Masters Championship that starts 2 minutes before the regular 10k. The Ann Arbor Track Club manages the entire event and is hosting the Masters Championship for the 3rd year in a row in 2012.

The University of Michigan and the University Musical Society have announced that members of Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company (see wikipedia) will again visit Ann Arbor next month for a number of events open to the public. The site annarbor.com highlighted a number of the events to occur during the visits. As noted in Annarbor.com. A nearby hotel, the Lamp Post Inn will provide special hotel rates.

The Big Heart Run will be held April 15th at The Big House. An Ann Arbor hotel will offer special hotel rates for both the event. It is scheduled for the same weekend as the Spring football game for the University of Michigan

Ann Arbor Film Festival announces Opening Night Activities and notes that Bruce Baillie will be in attendance. The Lamp Post Inn is mentioned as “The best deal close to downtown”. Special hotel rates are available for Ann Arbor Film Festival.

The Dexter – Ann Arbor Run will be held June 5. Reduced hotel rates for participants will be available at The Lamp Post Inn, a nearby local hotel.