Musical Entertainment

 

Friday Night Line-Up

Timmy D and Blind Justice – 6:00pm-7:15pm

This local band is a rocking blend of Classic British & American and Texas Blues Rock. Texas Blues combined with Early British Blues influence make Timmy D and Blind Justice one of the most exciting bands you have ever seen - a great show from start to finish.

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Kilborn Alley – 7:30pm-8:45pm

The Kilborn Alley Blues Band does gritty Chicago blues and southern fried soul for all the generations of blues lovers. This music speaks for itself; better still, it convinces you to listen.

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Dr. Duke Tumatoe & the Power Trio – 9:15pm-10:45pm

Chicago-born Duke Tumatoe is a musician/showman who has retained a firm career by fusing gritty R&B, rock, blues, and funk injected with equal parts humor and gut-level sincerity.

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Saturday Night Line-up

X-Krush – 6:00pm-7:00pm

For 14 years, Central Illinois rockers X-Krush have thrilled local audiences in venues that have ranged from dive bars to festival stages with thousands in attendance.  The band performs covers of songs by artists ranging from Lady Gaga to The White Stripes.

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Firehouse – 7:30pm-8:45pm

FireHouse has been rockin’ for over a decade. Their music has taken them all over the world and has produced Gold, Platinum and Multi-Platinum records in the United States and countries abroad.

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Warrant – 9:15pm-10:45pm

With a pair of double-platinum albums and three Top Ten singles, Warrant were one of the most popular pop-metal bands of the late ’80s.  The band signed with Columbia Records in January 1988 and released Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich one year later; by that summer, it had climbed into the Top Ten and launched the hit singles “Down Boys,” “Sometimes She Cries,” and “Heaven,” the last of which reached number two on the American charts. Released in the summer of 1990, the follow-up effort Cherry Pie was an even bigger success, climbing into the Top Ten and featuring the high-charting singles “I Saw Red” and “Cherry Pie.”

 

One Community Together Stage

This stage, brought to us in partnership with the University of Illinois, will feature musical and dance performances from around the world. There will also be featured children’s activities throughout both days. Also featured this year is the Seed. Feed. Flourish. program.

Performances
August 24
6:00-6:45		Briggs-Houchin Jazz Duo
7:00-7:45		Traditional Jazz Orchestra
8:00-9:00		Bruiser and the Virtues
August 25
12:00-1:15		Bow-Dacious String Band and the Mo’ Betta Jazz Band
1:15-1:30		Centro Livre Como Vento Capoeira
1:30-1:45		Korean Drums
1:45-2:00		Chinese Dancers
2:00-2:15		Conjunto Folklorico Patiperros-Chile
2:15-2:45		Del Sur
3:00-3:45		Robert E. Brown Center for World Music featuring Berimbau and Balinese music
4:00-4:45		Marching Illini Drum Line
5:00-6:15		Centennial, Central, and Urbana High School Marching Bands
Children’s Activities
August 24
6:00-7:00		Art Quiz sponsored by the Krannert Art Museum
7:00-8:00		Pinwheel craft sponsored by the Pollinitarium
8:00-9:00		Telescope Star Gazing sponsored by the Planetarium
August 25
12:00-5:00		Instrument Petting Zoo sponsored by the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, Planting and Playing with Nature’s Gardens sponsored by Champaign’s Prosperity Gardens, and What Vegetable and Fruit am I? sponsored by the Common Ground Food Co-op
12:00-1:15		Early American Toys and Corn Snake Craft sponsored by the Anita Purvis Center and the Museums of the Grand Prairie
12:45-1:15		International Conga Line Parade
1:15-2:15		Museums at the Crossroads Passport Program Winners Announced
2:00-3:00		Didjerido Instrument Making sponsored by the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, and Science activity sponsored by the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum
3:00-4:00		Paper Airplane Making sponsored by the Spurlock Museum and the Chanute Air Museum