Free Family Workshops , Community Picnic and Show FUNKADESI – ONE WORLD CELEBRATION
Sunday , August 4 Cultural Immersion Experience , 3:00 – 4:00 PM Community Picnic , 4:00 ( You bring your picnic , we ’ ll bring the dessert .) Multi-Cultural Dance Workshop , 5:00 – 6:00 PM Funkadesi Concert & Dance Party 7:30 – 9:30 PM FREE ! Funkadesi uses music to bring together communities while teaching mutual respect , and global citizenry . They offer a rhythm and cultural immersion experience in which the band integrates teaching world music with imparting cultural wisdom on how to get along with each other in an increasingly diverse world . The Bhangra / Caribbean / International dance workshop teaches the hottest dance steps coming out of the clubs of Punjab province ( Northwestern India ), the Caribbean and around the world . Sponsored by Essentia Health , Ashland Clinic
GAELIC STORM
Thursday , August 8 , 7:30 PM Tickets : $ 24 /$ 29 /$ 38 Box Seats $ 53 Gaelic Storm steps back into the ring with Chicken Boxer , their ninth album and fifth independent release on their own label Lost Again Records . Following two consecutive # 1 albums on the Billboard World Music Chart , Chicken Boxer showcases the incomparable songwriting and accomplished musicianship of a band that has made their mark bringing fans to their feet two hundred days per year . With their signature acoustic production , Gaelic Storm blends indie-folk and world grooves with Celtic tradition to serve up a ringside seat for fifteen rounds of pugilistic poultry pounding sound . Sponsored by Bruce & Ruth Goetz and Star Liquor
HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED A Bob Dylan Retrospective
Friday , August 9 , 7:30 PM Tickets : $ 22 /$ 11 for Students ages 3-17 / Box Seats $ 37 Severin Behnen leads the Blue Canvas Orchestra in a retrospective of the songs of the incomparable Bob Dylan . See page 6 for full description . Also plays Jun . 27 and July 18 Sponsored by Washburn Comrades : Thomas and Patricia Wiatr , Duane ( Buz ) and Sandy Raspotnik , Therene Gazdik , Rick , Theresa and Alan Seppa , Jim Nepstad and Deb Diamond-Nepstad
KATHY MATTEA
Opening Set by Barbara Jean Meyers Saturday , August 10 , 7:30 PM Tickets : $ 30 /$ 40 /$ 50 / Box Seats $ 65 Two-time Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year Kathy Mattea returns to the Big Top in a concert focused on music from her 2012 album Calling Me Home . The West Virginia native celebrates the folk music and culture of Appalachia where she has gathered songs of bravery , pride , and grief that speak of life in the world ’ s oldest mountains . Long known as an impeccable songcatcher , her 17 albums are woven through with bluegrass , gospel , and Celtic influences , and have garnered multiple CMA , ACM , and Grammy Awards . Barbara Jean was the winner of our 2011 Songwriting competition – a multi-instrumentalist whose music brings together rich imagery from Lake Superior ’ s rugged banks with masterful musicianship . Sponsored by Ancientwood , LTD
THE BODEANS
Sunday , August 11 , 7:30 PM Tickets : All Seats Reserved $ 39 / Box Seats $ 54 “ I ’ ve always thought of the BoDeans as an American band ,” says Kurt Neumann , the founder , primary writer and frontman of the Milwaukee-based group . ‘ Roots rock ’ was a label I fought , but if by ‘ roots ’ you meant blues , rock , country & soul all slammed together into one sound , then yes — that is the sound of American-made music .” Thanks to Neumann ’ s passion and determination , the BoDeans are still going strong a quarter century after their debut album led them to win a Rolling Stone readers ’ poll as “ Best New American Band ,” and nearly 20 years after their “ Closer to Free ” became a massive hit and the theme song of the sitcom Party of Five . We expect a standing and dancing crowd so please choose your seats accordingly . Sponsored by C . G . Bretting Manufacturing Co ., Inc .
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