Shop Local in Saline in February and SAVE!!! Brave the winter weather (whatever it may look like) and come downtown to warm up with these Fabulous specials in February: 

We are thrilled to announce that Winter Wonderland will return in December 2022! We’re all fired up to collab with the Saline Area Chamber of Commerce again this year — join us for downtown merriment and fun activities surrounding the Chamber’s beautiful Holidays Parade. Starting on Friday night, December 2nd we will once again bring out our Breeo fire pits for our annual downtown holidays by the campfire. Meet with us all weekend long for caroling, music, reindeer games

Wednesday October 26, 2022 6:30 to 8:30PM

Absolutely nothing scary going on at this Halloween party :) Meet us in the Key Bank parking lot and McKay Street as darkness falls and be sure to join all the groovy ghoulies for fun in Downtown Saline!

Magic Joe performances will amaze you! Throw Yo Hands Up DJ Aaron will make dance! Downtown Scarecrows will smile back at you! And so so many cool trucks to be bop around — surprises galore make this the event of the season for kids and families. Can’t wait to see your costumes 🤩😆🎃👻 too!

Ring of STEEL returns to Downtown Saline! Only

Masquer-Aide is a multifaceted community art event sponsored by Salt Valley Arts where folks get creative to support  the Taylor Jacobson Art Scholarship Fund!

Taylor Jacobsen was a well loved Saline art educator.  This scholarship was established by Saline Leadership Institute in his memory to provide access to art classes through Saline Area Social Services.

Join us for the 17th Annual Oktoberfest in the Heart of Downtown Saline!

PROST people! Mark your calendars now for Oktoberfest Saline 2022 on September 16th and 17th and be sure to join us for this wunderbar community event in Downtown Saline.

Join us every Thursday night for live music and dancing over the yellow lines! Opening night for 2022 is June 16th in the heart of Downtown Saline —

John “Bileebob” Williams creates alluring electronic music featuring vocals, software & hardware synths, acoustic instruments, and life sounds. He has been involved with the Detroit and Midwest electronic music scene since the mid 90’s. John performed internationally in Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Scotland and Nova Scotia as a member of the Detroit Grand Pubahs and Underground Resistance. As a DJ, he blends a seamless mix of all genres, including techno and house, electro and new wave, twisting knobs and tweaking the EQ to the crowd’s anticipant de

Presented by The Michigan Irish Repertory Theatre, Chapatti is an unusual romance formed under unusual circumstances for two lonely animal-lovers living in Dublin. When forlorn Dan and his dog Chapatti cross paths with the amiable Betty and her nineteen cats, an unexpected spark ignites a warm and gentle story about two people re-discovering the importance of human companionship.

Read more about Chapatti at Encore Michigan! Click here FMI.

Join us at The 109 Cultural Exchange in the heart of Downtown Saline for a live theatre performance presented by Mind the Gap Theatre Productions!

Concord Theatricals summarizes this hilarious full-length play —

Middle-aged and married, overworked and a bit of a sad sack, Barney Cashman (played by Adrian Diffey) wants to join the sexual revolution before it’s too late and arranges three seductions. The first, Elaine Navazio (Margaret Gilkes) proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses. Bobbi Michele is next, a young actress who’s too kooky by half (played by Jeannine Thompson). And, finally comes September and Jeanette Fisher — a gloomy, depressed housewife w

The 109 Cultural Exchange will host an exhibition of oil paintings by Sandra Difazio, April 18 – May 18. 

Difazio paints en plein air, in locales throughout the state where she focuses on the effects of shifting light and shadow within the environment. Her exhibition,“Visual Impressions of Michigan,” captures urban scenes, farms, fields, lakes, rivers, and shore lines of the Great Lakes. “Plein air painting gives me the opportunity to feel the environment and attempt to translate what I experience. The complexity tests my ability to think things out.”

Difazio’s work has been included in “Art Around Saline,” and has appeared in numerous juried and solo exhibits throughout Michigan. She has been a member o

The 109 Cultural Exchange will host an exhibition of watercolors by Nancy Murray, March 15–April 13. Murray, a resident of Milan, MI, draws inspiration from the natural world and through travel. 

The series of watercolors, exhibited under the title “Everyday Life: Finding the Commonplace in Uncommon Places,” is painted from her travels, depicting a blend of culture, commerce and interesting locales. Subjects include a woman guarding sheep in the higher elevations of Peru, a fish market in the Galapagos, life along a river in Guatemala, as well as moments captured in Japan, Scotland, and several islands in the Caribbean.

Murray’s work has been included in “Art Around Saline,” and in the permanent collections of the Chelsea Community

For $5 you can get your new 2022 lapel button that unlocks amazing deals throughout the month of February in Downtown Saline. This year the buttons are magnetic, so no worries about putting a hole in your cashmere or down :) 

And when not in use they make great refrigerator magnets!

How it works — wear your FAB Feb button on your lapel to simply qualify for great deals from February 1st through the 28th in all our participating businesses. 

FAB Feb buttons are on sale now at Mac’s Acadian Seafood Shack, Earth Elements, Whitepine Studios, Brecon Grille, Rock Paper Scissors (soon), RPS Jr. (soon), Fine Print Bookshop — and

Starting Friday night Dec 3rd and running through Sunday Dec 5th, it’s Saline Main Street’s premiere Winter Wonderland event throughout the weekend of the Saline Area Chamber of Commerce’s Iconic Holiday Parade “Home for the Holidays!”

Saline Main Street presents on Dec 3rd | 6 till 9 PM!
Join us for a Candlelight Vigil on the Holiday Square at S Ann Arbor (closed for weekend festivities). Fire pits will be burning and crackling 6:30 till 9 PM. Light a luminary for someone special and gather as we dedicate the holiday square to our beloved and so

There is nothing more sweet than the unconditional love of animals and we are over the moon to bring Chamberlin Pony Rides to Downtown Saline for our Winter Wonderland Weekend!

Please join us in welcoming pretty alpacas, cute goats, mini pony love, donkey sweetness and the unwaivering love and service of Dolly the horse to Downtown Saline on Sunday, December 5th from 2 to 3PM! We hope you will help us show these animals how vital and special they are to the world!

These lovely sweet creatures are coming to show

Join us for a cozy cocoa sipping tour this Saturday December 4th! Seven participating businesses will be offering happy sips of chocolatey goodness to keep you warm :)

This event begins at noon and ends as individual businesses close or while supplies last, so be sure to head in early! Pick up your passport at any participating business — get a stamp from each and be entered to win a prize!

Rock Paper Scissors
Earth Elements

Join us for a very special Candlelight Vigil on the Holiday Square at S Ann Arbor this Friday, December 3rd. Fire pits will be burning and crackling 6:30 till 9 PM. Gather together as we honor our beautiful and beloved community leaders, Heather Feldkamp and Taylor Jacobsen with a special tribute and square dedication.

Come early at 6PM to light your own luminary for someone you miss this holiday season. Supplies will be provided.

We feel so grateful to join the community for this heartfelt occasion.

6PM to 6:30 | Join us to write the name of a loved one on a white bag to be used for a luminary. We will set the

Winter wish lists are being prepared and get-togethers planned. We think longingly about the people who are missing from us. We pull out boxes from storage and try to set the stage for something uniquely wonderful. Each year. Every holiday. We want to make a little magic.

The act of giving and the feeling one gets from the warmth and kindness of strangers – this is the way of the sidewalk in Downtown Saline.

Shopping small is a meaningful way to make your holidays one to remember. Our downtown boutiques and eateries are known for rolling out the red carpet all year long, but this is truly the season when everyone shines. For thoughtful gifts and Michigan style, there simply is no

Wednesday October 27, 2021 6:30 to 8:30PM

Absolutely nothing scary going on at this Halloween party! Calling all groovy ghoulies to come celebrate the season of harvest at one of our all-time favorite holiday events –
It’s the long-awaited return of Saline Main Street’s funky Trunk or Treat! Our fabulous volunteers have been working nonstop to plan a family-friendly goodie fest for Saline’s little ghosts and goblins, and it’s all landing right here in Downtown Saline. Won’t you join us? Located in the lots behind Hartman Insurance and Key Bank in Downtown Saline and all along McKay Street. Tons of

Join the creative community of Whitepine Studios as they open their newest exhibit featuring the art by members of Saline’s Painters Guild! This arts happening will be a celebration of local artists in our newest downtown artspace. Kaili and Joanne Dence will host the reception and offer drinks and desserts amidst the Guild collection on the walls of their gallery and classrooms. See you there!

BUS TOUR SCHEDULE

9 AM Registration begins (130 South Lane Street - Blissfield, Michigan)

• Enjoy a complimentary Mimosa before boarding the bus to Saline​

9:30 AM Load bus for Saline

​9:45 AM Bus departs for Saline

10:30 AM - NOON Saline

• Shop downtown Saline
• Get your box lunch

NOON Load bus for Milan

12:15 PM Bus departs for

When I first arrived in Saline to take the helm as executive director at Saline Main Street, I thought how great it would be to have a mixed media arts space in the heart of downtown — something similar to Amazing Things Arts Center (ATAC) in my hometown of Framingham, Mass. I saw how instrumental ATAC was in attracting visitors and patrons to its small business neighbors, and believed that an arts and culture community space like that would benefit the small businesses in Downtown Saline.

That arts space vision included a galler

Artist highlights from Salt Valley Arts “My Favorite Things” exhibit at the 109 Cultural Exchange, 109 W Michigan Avenue, Downtown Saline, MI.

Come to Downtown Saline for a bite and some great music Tuesday through Saturday nights! Premiere outdoor seating with award winning food and Michigan brews — and a backdrop of the best local music in SE Michigan.

SEPTEMBER SCHEDULE on Umbrella Square Starting at 6PM
Brecon Grille, Mac’s Acadian Seafood Shack, Smokehouse 52 + Salt Springs Brewery

(Music subject to change).

Wed 9/1    Maze & Clauser
Thu  9/2    Acoustic Corndaddy
    
Tue  9/7   Maze & Clauser
Wed 9/8   Don Middlebrook
Thu  9/9   Jason Peek
    
Tue  9/14  TBA
Wed 9/15  TBA  
Thur 9/16 

Join us for the 17th Annual Oktoberfest in the Heart of Downtown Saline!

PROST people! Oktoberfest Saline 2021 is on! September 17th and 18th join us for this wunderbar community event in Downtown Saline.

How is it that seeing live music makes you feel so amazing? There’s just nothing like it, and in DowntownSaline we love our local bands more than words can say.  We are totally over the moon excited to bring back Salty Summer Sounds Live Music in the Street again this year! And, we couldn’t be more thrilled that our restaurants and shops are bringing back Sounds in the Street shows and dinner music to the menu again, too! There’s literally a live show each and every day or night Tuesday through Saturday in Downtown Saline going right through August. 

Here’s the skinny on everything going on in the heart of Saline this August. So many family friendly things

While in Arizona studying Audio Engineering, Ben Daniels decided to be a musician. A natural poet, he soon became a young songwriter schooled on Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, J.J. Cale, and John Prine, among others. Since 2006, Ben has written songs that speak directly to the things we all see, recognize, and think. Years later, his lyrics have the  authenticity of an artist. View Ben’s website.

Major Dudes formed in late 2015 with a simple mission: let’s make it hard on ourselves. That’s right. When Danny Taylor (keyboards and lead vocals) and Paul Laginess (bass and vocals) set out for seemingly the umpteenth time to put a band together - don’t ask - they figured the best way to finally solidify a project and to sustain it was to make it as appealing as possible, to themselves, naturally, and to any other musicians, they could enlist. So, the challenge for Danny and Paul was twofold. Select a bunch of fun, challenging and seldom-covered material (hey!…how about a Steely Dan tribute?), and find talented and like-minded musicians to fill out the lineup.  

Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic, America’s premier youth fiddling show band from Saline, Michigan, astounds audiences every time the group takes the stage. The musicians, all from Saline High School, present an energetic and polished show that features a diverse range of music from American folk, fiddle, bluegrass, jazz, western swing, and Celtic traditions.  Spirited vocals and Appalachian step dancing combine with the instrumentals to create an unforgettable live performance.  This fully equipped, amplified, self-contained performance group is highly adaptable; no venue is too small, no stage is too large!

20 Years of Pure Silk

Corndaddy’s music harkens back to the glory days of country rock through filters of power pop, bluegrass and British Invasion bombast. We play taprooms and festivals around southeast Michigan when we can. For updates, visit us on Facebook.

Playin’ anything from rockabilly to punk. We’ll play all night. Email to book us! Tyler@DetroitSpecial.com. View our Facebook page.

With more than 45 years of perfect parties, CEYX is Michigan’s #1 dance and party band! The members of CEYX started by playing high school proms and homecoming dances in 1971. The band now has a 700-song repertoire and has performed at over 2000 events, including Festivals, Concerts in the Park and Corporate Events. Some include: Canton Liberty Fest, Thomas Township NEW Band Shell, Tittabawassee Twp. Band Shell, City of Evart, Bay Arts Council-Band Shell, Wenonah Park, Frankenmuth Memorial Park (9 years in a row opening for OLDIES 96 “OLDIES PALOOZA”), Tridge Midland Parks, Saline Concert in the Park, Clarkston Depo Concert In the Park, Auburn Concert In The Park, Richland Twp Concert In the Park, 18

I recall singing in the balcony with the church choir.  School plays, talent shows and rock ‘n’ roll bands soon followed.  I acted with Junior Light Opera in Ann Arbor, sang and played guitar at fraternity parties and teen clubs, and attended theater classes at the U of M.  Then… Savage Grace and the beginning of a very “interesting” journey. Visit website.

I started this page when I managed, played bass, and promoted DS. Please go to Shoot The Messenger FB and like us, Check out chrisgoerke.com

Playin’ anything from rockabilly to punk. We’ll play all night. Email to book us! Tyler@DetroitSpecial.com. View our Facebook page.

The Brad Phillips Band is a band comprised of five of the most acclaimed acoustic musicians in the state of Michigan.

The Greatest little Tribute show on Earth 

Over the last 2 decades, FiftyAmpFuse® has become the favorite for festival, concert, and corporate clients across the nation.

Fifty Amp Fuse is an award-winning American rock Band formed in 2004. The Detroit-based group has earned a reputation for thrilling audiences in many cities all across the USA delivering recent hits while serving as a Tribute act to the greatest artists of all time. Always leaving the crowd wanting more it’s spectacular high-energy experience that you won’t want to miss!

With the option of adding video images from every era and genre to their multi-media performance also enhanced by a high tech light show, FiftyAmpFuse® re-c

Detroit Singer/Songwriter/Musician. View Steven’s Facebook profile.

Don Middlebrook is a Florida Trop Rock, Americana, Country, Rock ‘n Roll singer/songwriter from the frozen North. East Lansing, Michigan is ground zero. He travels a circuit from Michigan to Key West – Seattle to the East coast. Original Florida swamp rock, with authentic country sensibilities, give Don a heart of pure Trop Rock.

Visit Don’s Website.

“I think that my finally coming around to this genre came from a handful of mid-Michigan area bands that have revitalized Jam…  That includes this band Pajamas, an Ann Arbor trio that have this mellow, melodic, smooth groove going on. Crisp, warm tones and harmonies and croony, cool vocals and really tight instrumental chemistry between them. Kind of arranged for psych-rock but also softer jazz vibes.”

—Jeff Milo (Current, WDET)

International award-winning performer Mark Maze and his band The B!g Deal are serious entertainment! This is a premium group for when you really want to impress your guests. From weddings to festivals, from country clubs to biker clubs, this band does it all! Custom sets catered to your event, emcee services, and more. State of the art Bose PA sound system for clean, rich, fantastic sound. Never too loud, always just right! Make sure your event is perfect - call Mark Maze & the B!g Deal!

Playin’ anything from rockabilly to punk. We’ll play all night. Email to book us! Tyler@DetroitSpecial.com. View our Facebook page.

The Sociables are an acoustic/alternative rock duo, artfully executing original music and interpretations on ukulele and bass. The Sociables craft original compositions with a throbbing beat, punk/progressive undertones, and haunting vocals. Located in Southeast Michigan, you can find them playing in the Ann Arbor area.

James Henes is an emotive singer/ songwriter armed with vast influences from hard rock to folk. An open book policy on lyrics combined with riff-driven chord structure helps create the soundscape to the songs of his life…always approaching a song with conviction and sincerity.

The Brad Phillips Band is a band comprised of five of the most acclaimed acoustic musicians in the state of Michigan.