{"id":1777,"date":"2017-08-23T18:43:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T18:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2024-05-22T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:42:07","slug":"2017-sweetcorn-festival-one-community-together-programming-kicks-off-august-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2017\/08\/23\/2017-sweetcorn-festival-one-community-together-programming-kicks-off-august-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Sweetcorn Festival \u201cOne Community Together\u201d Programming Kicks off August 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music is working again with the Urbana Business Association, University of Illinois, Champaign County Museums Network, and the Urbana and Champaign High School Marching Bands to lead the music and children\u2019s programming on the One Community Together (OCT) stage for the 2017 Urbana Sweet Corn Festival that is scheduled for August 25th<\/sup> and 26th<\/sup>.\u00a0 This year’s OCT programming takes place on Saturday the 26th, and highlights many of our community\u2019s special collections and museums as well as our wonderfully talented local musicians, dance artists, and three outstanding high school marching bands.\u00a0 A complete listing of OCT performances and children\u2019s activities is listed below.\u00a0 For further information about the One Community Together programming contact the Sousa Archives at either 217-333-4577 or email schwrtzs@illinois.edu.\u00a0 For the festival\u2019s other exciting music programs please visit the Sweet Corn Festival Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

OCT Music Programming (August 26th)<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:30-12:00 \u2013 Cuperstars<\/p>\n

12:15-1:15 \u2013 BBL Fine Arts Jazz Ensemble and Bow-dacious String Band<\/p>\n

1:30-2:15\u00a0 \u2013 Ipan Steel Drum Ensemble<\/p>\n

2:15-3:15\u00a0 \u2013 <\/strong>Young and Fretless [wandering the Festival grounds]<\/p>\n

2:30-3:15\u00a0 \u2013 Bali Lantari<\/p>\n

3:15-3:45\u00a0 \u2013 Young and Fretless [playing in front of OCT Stage]<\/p>\n

4:00-4:45 \u2013 Traditional Jazz Orchestra<\/p>\n

5:00-6:00\u00a0 \u2013 Urbana, Central, and Centennial Marching Bands<\/p>\n

6:00-6:15 \u2013 University of Illinois Chancellor and the Urbana and Champaign mayors thank the OCT music ensembles, and then the 3 high school marching bands play together Erick Leidzen’s arrangement of “God Bless America.”<\/p>\n

OCT Children\u2019s Programming (August 26th)<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:30-4:30 \u2013 Instrument Petting Zoo (sponsored by the Sousa Archives at the OCT stage)<\/p>\n

11:30-1:00 \u2013 Natures Table (sponsored by the Anita Purves Center at the children\u2019s zone)<\/p>\n

11:30-1:00 \u2013 Experiencing Touchable Nature (sponsored by the Homer Lake Interpretative Center at the children\u2019s zone)<\/p>\n

1:00-4:00 \u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Solar Telescopes and Eclipses (sponsored by the Staerkel Planetarium at the children\u2019s zone)<\/p>\n

1:00-3:00 \u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Children\u2019s Games of the 19th<\/sup>\u00a0Century Prairie (sponsored by the Museum of the Grand Prairie at the children\u2019s zone)<\/p>\n

1:30-3:30 \u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Make Your Crown (sponsored by the Spurlock Museum at the children\u2019 zone)<\/p>\n

2:00-4:00\u00a0 \u00a0\u2013 Didjerido Instrument Making (sponsored by the Sousa Archives at the OCT stage)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music is working again with the Urbana Business Association, University of Illinois, Champaign County Museums Network, and the Urbana and Champaign High School Marching Bands to lead the music and children\u2019s programming on the One Community Together (OCT) stage for the 2017 Urbana Sweet Corn Festival that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4632,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/4632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}