TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – Madonna arrived in this resort town Saturday as one of the headliners of a film festival founded by fellow Michigan native Michael Moore.

Hundreds of fans cheered from behind barricades as Madonna, wearing a black dress, high heels and sunglasses, stepped out of a black sport utility vehicle that pulled up in front of the State Theatre downtown.

She hugged a waiting Moore, who sported an orange baseball cap, and posed for photos with him.

“Welcome home, Madonna!” shouted one fan. “Thank you,” answered the 49-year-old singer, born to the southeast in Bay City and raised in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills.

Madonna was to introduce her documentary, “I Am Because We Are,” before a Saturday evening screening held as part of the Traverse City Film Festival.

The movie deals with the orphans of Malawi, the African nation where she and husband Guy Ritchie adopted a son.

Madonna was accompanied by her 11-year-old daughter, Lourdes, and the film’s director, Nathan Rissman. Ritchie was not present. She was not expected to make any other appearances in the Traverse City area.

She appeared amid the release of a tell-all book by her brother and speculation about her relationship with New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez. Madonna and Rodriguez both deny an affair.