Eureka Springs is the place for music and art! We have lots of great things coming up this year! We will be starting the year off with FREE music in Basin Spring Park Saturday and Sunday afternoons beginning April 19th. We will also be having free Boogies in Basin Park after Dark once a month throughout the summer.
May Festival of the Arts celebration begins, May 1st join us in Basin Spring Park for a our a special Kick-Off Party in the Park with music, featuring the Hogscalders, Jones Van Jones, Jeff Lee. That evening join us at the 1901 Gavioli Chapel for our first Americana House Concert featuring Noah Earle, an International Blues Challenge soloist nominee and winner of the solo category of Kansas City Blues Challenge, performing his newest Folk creations. May 3rd brings us more music in Basin Spring Park as well as our ARTragous parade starting at 2 pm. The theme of the parade this year is "Springs of Inspiration". In the past this parade has included 40ft. high puppets, a variety of musical performances, with drumming, African Dancing and Belly Dancers, highly creative floats, and artistically inspired costumes.
We also have Yard Art and Spring Art competitions decorating our quaint little town with outrageous displays all around and at the springs. We are also very proud to present our featured singer/ writer Kinky Friedman is a political satirist, known for his outrageous and irreverent larger-than-life persona, who will be playing at our City Auditorium May 10th at 8 pm. He will have a book signing and reception after the show in the Gem, located below the Auditorium. That same weekend in Basin Spring Park we will have the high flying Aeriel Angels who will soar, contort, and eat fire for all who wish to see. This is a Free event to all!
John Two-Hawks will be playing a Mother’s Day matinee at 2 pm on May 11th, at the City Auditorium. He is known for his evolutionary work with Native American flute music, taking it to a new level of world appreciation and respect. May 16th is the 18th annual White Street Studio Walk, where the artists welcome the public into their homes and studio’s to view their latest works. As well as fifty guest artists who set up along the street to show their weaving, watercolors, jewelry, pottery, oils, stained glass and more. This is an event embraced by the whole community bringing all the locals out to intermingle with the tourist and artist in a big street party manor with music and refreshments.
May 17th we will have a wonderful Art in the Park display featuring twelve artist chosen for a special juried art show in Basin Spring Park. May 20th we will have our second Americana House Concert at the Gavioli featuring John Elliott and Raina Rose. John Elliott’s music has been called "post-Seinfeld, post-9/11, eyebrow rock" and his songwriting has garnered comparisons to Paul Simon (among others) in the press. Raina Rose "is everything a young female folksinger should be" according to Jeff Rosenberg, Willamette Week, May ’07. May 23rd through the 26th you can see the magical comedy of Bobby Maverick FREE in Basin Spring Park. Part comedy, part nonsense but all magic, Maverick has created a scene all over the world with his show.
As if all this is not enough, we will also be having our Art Car & Skateboard Festival for Memorial Day weekend. These amazing cars can be seen all around town as they tour to different locations and then on the 24th starting at 2 pm there will be a parade of all the cars through down town Eureka Springs. On the 26th we send out the ARTragous month of May with an old-fashioned all-American potluck picnic at Lake Leatherwood. Everyone is invited! Bring food and drink. Decorate your canoe, kayak, or boat to bring the art out on the water with us for this celebration of all those who have fought for our freedom to express ourselves with art, speech, and choice of religion.
Then as we say goodbye to May Arts it is time to get revved up for Blues Fest starting May 29th through June 1st.
www.kinkyfriedman.com –Kinky Friedman
www.johntwohawks.com – John Two-Hawks
www.noahearle.com/ - Noah Earle
www.thehereandafterishere.com - John Elliott
www.rainarose.com - Raina Rose
www.myspace.com/bobdabusker - Bobby Maverick
www.eurekaspringsartcar.com - Art Cars
www.myspace.com/americanaeureka - Americana House Concerts
www.myspace.com/eurekafestivals - Eureka Festivals and Events
www.eurekasprings.org - Official site of Advertising & Promotion
www.citizen.lovelycounty.com and www.lovelycitizen.com/ - Local News
www.eurekafestivals.lovelycounty.com – Event Information
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