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Imagination Station at the Town Center
Sponsored by Ozark
Guidance
6:00pm - 6:50pm
KinderSongs – Don’t miss the most fun family concert ever!This dynamic duo will start the night off right and have all-ages dancing
and singing along!
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Imagination Station - Visit the huge arts
and crafts area to make a hat, a
mask or a costume for the Giant Puppet Processional.
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Dance Coalition
8:00pm - 8:20pm
Traditional European Folk Dance with
Anoush
8:30pm - 9:00pm
Irish dance featuring
McCafferty School of Irish
Dance
9:05pm - 9:25pm
Traditional Spanish Dance with
Palillos!
9:30pm - 10:15pm
Afrique Aya – This performance will feature an exciting exhibition
of world music, West African Dance and drums!
Outdoor Stage
Sponsored by Cox Communications
7:00pm
Giant Puppet Processional around the square
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Soma Juggling Theatre – Your whole family will be amazed and entertained by these
amazing jugglers.They are no ordinary
juggling act – their
8:05pm – 9:00pm
Chase Missy – Quickly becoming one of
Fayetteville’s most beloved bands, this husband and wife team’s genre-crossing music draws comparisons
to artists such as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and the Indigo Girls.
9:15pm – 10:15pm
Thanks for Nothing – These Local Rockers take Centerstage!
10:30pm - 12:15pm
HEADLINER CONCERT – FASTBALL
This platinum Record
holding, twice-grammy nominated band out of
Austin, Texas
will rock us into 2008!
11:55pm - 11:59pm
Closing ceremony and extinguishing of the Lights of
the Ozarks
– excitement will fill the last moments of 2007 with hope for peace in the new year.
11:59pm - 12:00am
Countdown to Midnight – Don’t miss the third annual and recently re-imagined Hog Drop - a completely unique
Fayetteville
tradition!
12:00am - 12:20pm
Fireworks Finale toWELCOME 2008! Sponsored by the City of
Fayetteville
Anniversary Stage
(Convention and Visitor's Bureau Store)
Sponsored
by Collier Drug Stores
7:30pm - 8:15pm
Ozone Players - A true fayetteville favorite!
This group has the coolest concept for modern bluegrass - they call it Newgrass
and it's wonderful!
8:30pm - 9:15pm
Shaky Bugs - Miss Jules will share
a concert of interactive music for kids!
9:30pm – 10:15pm
Howl-O - This unique duet will present a concert of
traditional rennaissance and celtic music with a flair!
Folk
Stage (Odom Law Firm) Sponsored
by Odom Law Firm
7:30pm – 8:20pm
Emily Kaitz &
Drew Pierce
– Emily and Drew will share a set of Emily’s original, irreverent, whimsical and
highly entertaining songs!
8:20pm – 9:10pm
Still on the Hill
– This high-energy duo will delight the crowd with original Ozark folk, multi-instrumental
accompaniment with great vocals!
9:10pm – 9:40pm
The Kelly and
Flip Band
featuring Flip Puthoff
9:40pm – 10:30pm
Jam Session – All of the musicians
take the stage for a final jam!
Literary
Stage (Bank of Fayetteville)
Sponsored by The Bank of
Fayetteville
7:30pm – 8:15pm
Ceramic Cow Productions – Fun performance of locally written comedic play– “BigFoot Love”
8:15pm – 9:45pm
The
Arkansas
Playwright’s Workshop
– Staged readings of new plays by Arkansas Playwrights.
9:45pm – 10:30pm
Slam Poetry Workshop and Performances with Terrence
Youngblood
Jazz Stage (The Cosmopolitan Hotel)
Sponsored
by Tyson Foods
7:30pm – 8:30pm
The Gibson - Greeson Ensemble - This group is co-led
by guitarist and professor of music at the U of A, Jim Greeson, along with trumpeter
and scat vocalist Allan Gibson.
8:30pm – 9:30pm
The Walter Savage Quartet - Walter Savage has
won a reputation for bringing the upright bass to the spotlight.
9:30pm - 10:30pm
The Claudia Burson
Trio
-
Fayetteville's 1st Lady of Jazz, pianist Claudia Burson will be featured with her
long time trio, Clare Starr on upright bass and Steve Wilkes on drums.
Classical
Stage (St. Paul's Episcopal Church Sanctuary)
Sponsored
by Collier Drug Stores
7:30pm - 8:15pm
Mary Haley, Jeannie Lee, & The Fayetteville Fiddle Choir- A light
Classical concert of Violin and Piano. Mary & Jeannie will also be joined
by the Fayetteville Fiddle Choir to share traditional holiday selections.
8:30pm - 9:15pm
Naturally Brass - This exciting brass ensemble is dedicated to presenting
musical arrangements which retain the integrity of the original compositions – while
bringing grins, applause, and excitement to the audience.
9:30pm – 10:15pm
Gregorian Schola - This group, directed by Richard Lee, who regularly
sing at St. Joseph's Catholic churchwill present medieval monk music in latin -
a variety of Gregorian Chants including Advent, Christmas and Epiphany chants.
Rocks & Blues Stage ( Masons on the Square)
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Blues Builder and Youth Band- This group of young
blues musicians are the next wave of local blues and they’re all under 21!
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Adam Posnak
– True rustic blues, Adam’s voice has been said to sound like it was “sealed in
a rusted iron box 100 years ago and buried in a Georgia graveyard, which has since
become a swampland” It’s rural, rurnt, ragged and dirty country blues.
9:30pm - 10:30pm
Band from Planet X – Local blues in the style of James Harmon,
Hollywood Fats,Muddy Waters and the
Allman Bros.Electric blues featuring
a blues harp player, excellent vocals and two lead guitarists!
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