Opening Day Anthem by Downtown Detroit Partnership
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
Friday, April 4th 2025 is the 124th Opening Day for the Detroit Tigers. As a resident of Midtown in Detroit, I can tell you that this is unquestionably one of the biggest holidays of the year for us. Already the streets are filling with cars as baseball fans from all over Michigan and the world get ready for Tiger Baseball to return to the Motor City!
I’ve rounded up some of the highlights with a laser focus on FREE including and Opening Day party at Grand Circus Park by the City of Detroit and a Wisconsin manufacturer of watery beer that features a LOT of great food trucks, DJ Invisible, and lots of video walls and screens. There’s another free party from noon – 6pm just across Woodward at one of my favorite venues, The Fillmore with giveaways, WRIF and the game on their MASSIVE screen (tell the security guys Andy sent you and they will laugh). Also on the free front are a party at Gilly’s with giveaways, raffle, face painting & DJ Ray Ya Dig (official DJ of the Lions) from 9 AM–4 PM. I think that the Opening Day Party with my friends The Honest to God Jug Band is free, but they’re so fun and Cliff’s Bells is SO cool that I think you won’t mind if there is a cover.
And everywhere there are giveaways, giveaways, giveaways including the House of Faygo Pop-up at Campus Martius this Friday – Sunday.
Here’s more information on the photos & happenings. Please add yours in the comments here or on our Facebook!
- Detroit Tigers Love by The City of Detroit (head over and drop your Opening Day plans!)
- Detroit Tigers First Opening Day courtesy Detroit Historical Society
- Downtown Detroit Opening Day Tailgate at Grand Circus Park
- Fillmore & WRIF Opening Day Party
- Watching the Game at Grand Circus by Downtown Detroit
- Honest to God Jug Band at Cliff’s Bells
- House of Faygo Popup
- and Ernie Harwell at Tiger Stadium … and it wouldn’t be Opening Day without his invocation!
Michigan in Pictures 
I liked the pictures Andrew and what a slew of events, free or otherwise. It’s been ages since I heard Ernie Harwell’s “Voice of the Turtle” – they always played it on WJR for Opening Day, but I switched to WWJ awhile ago. Thank you for putting it here. And the Tigers won on a good weather day, no snow this year. :)
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It was so fun downtown. The energy in the ballpark has to be electric, but even as a non-drinker, I really love bopping around to the different (free) Opening Day parties. If you do instagram, I will likely post some pics from yesterday on mine!
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It sounded like it was fun, then they won again today … off and running. I do Instagram but just to connect with a few bloggers but I don’t post pics, so I’ll look for your pics. I liked your Hanging with the Big Heads video from the parade.
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Yeah that was a fun one!
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