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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