Dust off your bike, strap on your rollerskates, saddle up the yak: The annual FestiFools parade returns from 4-5 p.m. Sunday, April 11, along Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor, between Washington and William streets.

Hundreds of U-M students and community volunteers have worked during the winter to create several 14-foot-tall, animated puppets to be featured in the parade. The puppets are among a range of planned sights and sounds. They include cardboard and foil robots and the pulsating beats of a garbage can drum ensemble.

The public is encouraged to attend, sporting whatever wacky costume-hat-rubber chicken-Spock ears-etc. they can find, organizers say. Participants are encouraged to join the family-friendly FestiFeast afterglow, in the Aut Bar courtyard, rain or shine.

FestiFools is a nonprofit production of the START Project, a Lloyd Hall Scholars Program initiative at U-M. Other university sponsors are Arts on Earth, LSA, the School of Art & Design and U-M.

Ann Arbor to host most vocal reunion ever

The Men’s Glee Club celebrates 150 years of tradition, camaraderie and musical excellence with a choral reunion Thursday-Saturday.

Nearly 500 of the club’s 1,700 living alumni are coming back to campus for a weekend of revelry and rehearsals for their own alumni concert. The opportunity to step onto the same stage where they performed while in college is expected to provide a rare, thrilling experience, organizers say.

The centerpiece for the reunion weekend is the current Men’s Glee Club’s Annual Spring Concert scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday at Hill Auditorium, home to many Men’s Glee Club performances over the years. The concert will take place under the baton of director Paul Rardin, choral conducting faculty member at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

At 3 p.m. Saturday, the 150th Anniversary Alumni Concert at Hill Auditorium will feature club alumni singing some of the club’s “greatest hits,” under the direction of emeritus conductors Willis Patterson, Leonard Johnson, Patrick Gardner, Bradley Bloom, Jerry Blackstone and Stephen Lusmann, along with current conductor Rardin.

For ticket information go to ummgc.org/o/tickets.php.