Johnson County Ukulele Club
2024-06-08 12:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Dr. Suzanne Stock Ped Mall Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 210 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: The Johnson County Ukulele Social Club has been in operation for nearly 16 years. They meet at Legacy Retirement Home and encourage people of all ages and skill levels to attend. They play music from all eras and are happy to learn a new tune!

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Street Entertainment: Nicole Dean
2024-06-08 13:00 - 14:30 | IA
Location: the Clinton Street and College Street intersection, near Yotopia

About: Nicole was born and raised in the south where her love for music was cultivated. That love has deepened and widened as she’s made her way through the world to her current home in the Midwest. From nostalgia-fueled 90’s country to Brandi Carlile to writing original songs, music has always been a vivid source of human connection for her.

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School of Rock
2024-06-08 13:15 - 14:00 | Dr. Suzanne Stock Ped Mall Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 210 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: The School of Rock House Band music program gives students under 18 the opportunity to join a gigging band composed of fellow musicians from their school. These students perform additional live shows throughout the year. All students in the Performance Program have the opportunity to audition for a spot in their school’s House Band. Once selected, House Band members become leaders in their School of Rock community and perform live shows at local rock venues throughout the year!

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Subatlantic
2024-06-08 13:30 - 14:30 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Subatlantic, an indie rock band based in the Quad Cities, where Iowa and Illinois meet, features Becca Rice–lead vocals, guitar, and keyboards; Adam Kaul–guitar; Phil Pracht–drums; and Sean Chapman–bass and cello. Subatlantic formed in 2008 and released their first EP in May of 2015 on Bandcamp. Their first album, Villains, came out in spring of 2019.
Using flexibility in arrangements and instrumentation, Subatlantic displays different textures in their songs, creating a unique sound that ranges from dark and sonorous to danceable post-punk. Subatlantic’s new album will be out Spring 2023.

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Sparkles (City High Cheer)
2024-06-08 14:15 - 14:30 | Dr. Suzanne Stock Ped Mall Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 210 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: City High Sparkles is an inclusive cheer and dance team for students with and without disabilities at City High School. The goal of Sparkles is to foster meaningful participation in extracurricular and athletic activities at the high school level and forge social ties among students of all abilities.

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Street Entertainment: Pete Balestrieri
2024-06-08 14:30 - 15:00, 2024-06-09 11:30 - 12:00 | IA
Location: the Washington Street and Dubuque Street intersection

About: Pete Balestrieri is an Iowa City saxophonist. He toured and recorded with Violent Femmes for twenty years and has a Gold Record for their first album. Most recently, he’s been with Old Scratch Revival Singers, Brooks Strause and The Gory Details, and the Cirque Stupendo Circus Band. He also frequently performs solo.

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Mimi Ke, Silk Aerialist
2024-06-08 14:45 - 15:15 | Dr. Suzanne Stock Ped Mall Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 210 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Raised in Iowa City, Iowa, Mimi Ke is a circus artist, choreographer and teaching artist exploring the field of aerial dance and specializes in aerial silks and rope.
With an ineffable hang for movement, Mimi has travelled around the world to perform and build her craft. To Mimi, aerial dance is action painting, sheer life experienced through energy in motion, with space, physics and rhythm as its main ingredients. She draws from her background with dance and yoga as a way to create circus performance.
As an aerialist, Mimi has performed and choreographed with Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, in cabarets, circuses, dance festivals and site-based performances around the world. She continues to create her own aerial work as well as participate in cross-disciplinary projects. Most recently she performed in Butoh choreographer Tadashi Endo’s work, Ohaka in Oaxaca, MX and as Clara in the ballet circus rendition of the Nutcracker in Charlotte, NC. Her passion for improvised based work drives her creativity, allowing her to express the freedom of aerial dance and the spectacle of theatrical circus.

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Art Out Loud: UAY Performances
2024-06-08 15:00 - 16:00 | United Action for Youth (UAY), 355 Iowa Ave., Iowa City, 52240
United Action for Youth in partnership with Summer of the Arts are hosting a stage in the Jim Swaim Youth Center for area Youth to read their works. Local author and librarian Kellee Forkenbrock is back this year to moderate!

Joe and Vicki Price
2024-06-08 16:00 - 17:30 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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Alysha Brilla
2024-06-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Alysha Brilla is a 3X Juno Award nominated multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and performer weaving together global roots sounds into her unique tapestry of music; transporting audiences to a place nestled between the earth and the stars.
The child of an Indo-Tanzanian musician, Brilla’s songs are a rich and colorful mosaic. Themes of re-connection with ourselves, each other and the earth are woven into uplifting rhythms and soulful melodies. In 2013, Brilla became one of the first self-produced female artists in history to receive a Juno Award nomination (Canada’s Grammy Awards) for her debut album “In My Head”. Since then, Brilla has released four critically acclaimed albums; garnering several more Juno Award nominations, Music Producer Of The Year at the IMA’s and a Dundas Square giant Billboard feature with Spotify.
Having performed at The House of Blues Los Angeles, The Montreal International Jazz Festival, WOMAD Chile, Sauti Za Busara in Tanzania and toured several times across Australia, Brilla’s music united audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Her distinct and powerful voice, unique melodies and engaging stage presence invite levity and joy. Whether sharing intimate storytelling sets of music or headlining festival stages of 30,000 with her all-star band, Brilla always has the audience singing along and leaving with a positive feeling in their heart.

Her latest single “Love” was mastered by 3X Grammy Award Winning Engineer Emily Lazar at The Lodge in New York.

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Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience
2024-06-08 20:00 - 21:30 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Supported by Chuck and Kimberly Swanson

About: Grammy-winner Terrance Simien takes his audiences on a multicultural tour of the world inspired the many countries he’s visited on tour which have informed his musical language. He creates a hypnotic blend of New Orleans funk-reggae-flavored-world-blues-American zydeco roots music that beckons you to your feet and into the groove. Leading his Zydeco Experience band, Simien has become one of the most respected and accomplished artists in American roots music today. He and his bandmates have performed over 7000 concerts, toured millions of miles to over 45 countries during their eventful career.

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Web: https://www.terrancesimien.com/
Other links: https://www.facebook.com/ZydecoRocks/
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Iowa Arts Festival Emerging Artist Area
2024-06-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Old Capitol Mall, 201 S Clinton St., Iowa City, 52240
Sponsored by River Products and US Bank
Featuring artwork by high school and college students, and young artists 16-25 years old, the Emerging Artist Area is not to be missed!

Iowa Arts Festival Art Fair
2024-06-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Downtown Iowa City, Linn St., Dubuque St., Clinton St., Iowa Ave., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Visit more than 100 fine artists working in ceramics/clay, mixed media, painting, photography, fiber, glass, jewelry, metal, printmaking, sculpture, and wood!

Silver Swing Band
2024-06-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Dr. Suzanne Stock Ped Mall Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 210 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: The Silver Swing Band is a 16-piece ensemble that enjoys “Big Band” music. With the revival of music from the 1940’s, this group has become popular with the younger set as well as the “silver seniors” from that era. The band has expanded its repertoire to include Big Band jazz music in addition to the above “Swing” category.
Silver Swing Band is a subset of the Iowa City New Horizons group started in 1998 and has played for a multitude of events and celebrations over the years. The band plays regularly at the Iowa Arts Fest and has performed at the Iowa City Jazz Fest, local retired residences, “Generations of Jazz”, Iowa City Senior Center, the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, and the University of Iowa College of Education Homecoming Tailgate party. Recordings can be found on YouTube under the Silver Swing Band listing.
The band is directed by Ryan Carter. Ryan is a graduate of Iowa City High School and currently a student at the University of Iowa School of Music. He is a member of the Johnson County Landmark Band among many other University of Iowa ensembles and also performs with many non-University ensembles.

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Web: http://www.iowacitynhb.org/
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Art-Making Sunday
2024-06-09 11:00 - 15:00 | Ped Mall Stage, 210 Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Join Summer of the Arts and other local nonprofits in not just viewing art, but making it! More information will be added at a later date.

Ped Mall Stage
2024-06-09 11:00 - 16:00 | Dr. Suzanne Stock Ped Mall Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 210 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Sponsored by Dr. Suzanne Stock, Orthodontist
Enjoy extra kid-friendly music and performances on Saturday in conjunction with ABC’s: Arts, Book and Children. On Sunday, enjoy a variety of music, with your favorite swing band and international sounds.
When finalized, look for detailed information in individual calendar events, which are forthcoming.

Culinary Delights and Merchandise Sales
2024-06-09 11:00 - 16:00 | Iowa Avenue, 105 Iowa Avenue, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Stroll along Iowa Avenue, buy a festival t-shirt, and pick up food from your favorite food vendors!

Annie Savage and the Lorch Sisters
2024-06-09 12:00 - 12:30 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Hailed as a “firecracker educator and performer” after founding the Wintergrass Festival’s Musicians of Excellence education program, Annie Savage is an international clinician whose Free-Strings Method (www.free-strings.com) offers students, classrooms, and festivals alike a joyful experience with music at the nexus of cultural relevance, creativity, and lifetime musicianship. A renowned fiddler, vocalist, and concert harpist, Savage has shared the stage with artists from Aretha Franklin to John Williams to Ricky Skaggs. She teaches with one foot in the classroom and the other in the music industry.

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Web: http://www.savagefiddler.com/
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About: The Fabulous Lorch Sisters are two hard-working musicians, singers, and dancers who hail from Johnson County and study with Annie Savage, who will join them for this special Arts Fest debut performance. They are also coached by their awesome grandma, local musician and author Anne Marie-Krauss. We think you will agree…these mini-fiddlers have a very exciting path ahead of them

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Beverage Sales
2024-06-09 12:00 - 16:00 | Beverage Garden, 11 S. Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Parents/Guardians: please note that you can bring minors into the Beverage Garden.
Last call in the Beverage Garden: 30 minutes before closing
Sales stop in the Beverage Garden: 15 minutes before closing

Noryli
2024-06-09 12:15 - 13:00 | Dr. Suzanne Stock Ped Mall Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 210 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Noryli, 26, was born in the heart of Mexico City, Mexico, not knowing that a little girl from a very rural poor town would step foot in the United States, find her voice and pursue her passion of singing. Since her first solo at the young age of 7 she knew that she loved the spotlight! She has grown and learned throughout her life and has sung multiple solos in high school/College as well as doing some choreography here and there for college productions. Noryli thanks you from the bottom of her heart for all the support and is blessed to be performing for you!

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Street Entertainment: Iowa City Flute Choir Quartet
2024-06-09 12:30 - 13:30 | IA
Location: strolling

About: The Iowa City Flute Choir is a semi-professional group composed of adult-age flutists of all ability levels. The ensemble was formed in 2018 and has now grown to nearly 40 members. There are no auditions required. Please email icflutechoir@gmail.com to learn how to join. You can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay updated on performances, repertoire, and all things flute.

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Gimenez Voice Academy
2024-06-09 13:00 - 13:30 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Gimenez Voice Academy, founded in Iowa City by Mia Gimenez, is an acclaimed and globally recognized music institution. Since our establishment in 2016, we’ve graced myriad stages across Iowa, captivating audiences with performances that often feature our exceptionally talented GVA soloists. But our reach extends far beyond the Hawkeye State—GVA singers can be experienced on all streaming platforms, on both coasts, on the big screen and even in Australia, bringing their artistry to a global audience. Our motto, “Follow Your Bliss,” guides our singers on their artistic journey, encouraging them to explore and embrace their passion. With a tagline that echoes our versatility—“Classical to Rock”—we celebrate the boundless possibilities of music

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Street Entertainment: Pandelirium Steel Band
2024-06-09 13:00 - 14:00 | IA
Location: the Washington Street and Clinton Street intersection

About: The Pandelirium Steel Drum Band performs on instruments cut and hammered from 55-gallon oil barrels and their performances include a blend of musical styles ranging from traditional Calypsos and Soccas of Trinidad to Reggae, arrangements of popular songs, and jazz standards. They have performed at numerous venues in Iowa, including the Iowa City Jazz Festival, Iowa Corn Daze, the Marion Swamp Fox Festival, and RAGBRAI.

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Street Entertainment: Old Capitol City Roller Derby
2024-06-09 13:00 - 15:00 | IA
Location: (st)Rolling in costume!

About: Old Capitol City Roller Derby is a league of members who wish to represent Iowa City with integrity, pride, and goodwill through a unique cultural outlet. We also aim to be strong, athletic, confident role models for our community. OCCRD formed in November of 2008 and became a Woman’s Flat Track Roller Derby (WFTDA) member league at the start of 2012. We have games in the fall and spring, and our bootcamps for new skaters are every November. Visit our Facebook page @oldcapitolcityrollerderby or our website occrd.com

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Solon High School Mariachi Band
2024-06-09 13:15 - 14:15 | Dr. Suzanne Stock Ped Mall Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 210 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: This year The Solon High School Mariachi band is 26 members strong. High School band director, Desmond Cervantez, created this group in 2013 because of his passion for Mariachi music and the culture surrounding it. Solon Spanish teacher, Martin Chapa, helps the students learn the lyrics to songs as well as performing many songs himself. Throughout its decade of operation, the band has grown to be a student and community favorite, performing five or six shows each season. Last year the band was invited to play at the Cedar Rapids Latino Fest in September, extending their usual spring season. What makes this group so special is the dedication the students bring. Solon does not have a string program, so each year returning members take it upon themselves to teach new members and to hone their own skills.

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Iowa City Flute Choir
2024-06-09 14:00 - 14:30 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: The Iowa City Flute Choir is a semi-professional group composed of adult-age flutists of all ability levels. The ensemble was formed in 2018 and has now grown to nearly 40 members. There are no auditions required. Please email icflutechoir@gmail.com to learn how to join. You can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay updated on performances, repertoire, and all things flute.

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Old Capitol Chorus
2024-06-09 14:30 - 15:00 | Dr. Suzanne Stock Ped Mall Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 210 S Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Iowa City’s Old Capitol Chorus is all about harmony. Under the direction of Chad Knipfer, our chapter in the Barbershop Harmony Society has been ringing chords for 60 years. Nearly 500 men have added their voice to our chorus from the beginning. We simply love to sing! We continue to welcome new singers of all backgrounds. Rehearsing on Thursday evenings, at Robert A Lee Community Center, to bring melody and harmony to this world. As you can see, we have a blast. A heartfelt thank you to Summer of the Arts for inviting us to Arts Fest.

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Forró fo Sho
2024-06-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Forró Fo Sho is the premier Wisconsin-based band playing NE Brazilian Forro dance music! Get ready for a party to close out the Arts Fest!

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Kevin Burt
2024-06-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Mercer Park, 1317 Dover St, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
The Iowa Children’s Museum is providing activities at this event!
Sponsored by On With Life

About: For nearly 3 decades, Kevin Burt, Iowa Blues Hall of Fame member (class of 2019), has been mesmerizing audiences with his powerfully smooth and soulful vocal. Paired with his unique harmonica and guitar presentation along with his quick wit, Burt engages with his audience touching their souls while tickling their funny bones.

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Web: https://www.kevinburtmusic.com/
Other links: www.facebook.com/KevinBurtMusic
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