Things to do in Metro Detroit Labor Day weekend: Sept. 4-7

• Tickets: $42 with unlimited rides or $10 for the fair only.

🎷 The Detroit Jazz Festival returns with four days of free music — a Labor Day tradition.

• Gates open at 5:30pm on Friday, and 12:30pm on Saturday, Sunday and Monday at Hart Plaza.
• Find additional programming at Wayne State's Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center.

🖼️ Get the entertainment trifecta at the Arts, Beats & Eats festival in Royal Oak, with music headliners including Third Eye Blind, Taking Back Sunday and Kool & The Gang.

• 11am-11pm Friday-Sunday and 11am-9pm Monday. Tickets: $13.73 online.

✊ Attend Detroit's Labor Day March in Corktown, kicking off at 9am.

🌯 The free Hamtramck Labor Day Festival runs noon-11pm Saturday-Monday, with food, music, a parade and a carnival. The famous boat races are at noon Monday.

👋 Send off summer with a family event in Campus Martius Park celebrating the U.S.'s 250th anniversary.

• 12-4pm Saturday. Free!

🍎 Start up fall with apple picking at a local orchard.

🕺 Those seeking DJ sets can hit up the Skip Saturday evening, 4-10pm, for its Labor Day weekend house party.

• Or try Marble Bar Friday night, with DJs starting at 9pm.