{"id":2467,"date":"2020-08-21T19:06:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T19:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2024-10-21T20:14:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:14:13","slug":"2020-virtual-sweetcorn-festival-kicks-off-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2020\/08\/21\/2020-virtual-sweetcorn-festival-kicks-off-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Virtual Sweetcorn Festival Kicks Off Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday\u2019s virtual festival kicks off at 10am with Urbana Mayor Marlin\u2019s welcome and a wonderful recorded performance by the music groups Hathaways, Bow-dacious String Band, Banks Bridgewater Lewis Jazz Ensemble and Capoeira Angola who performed on the festival\u2019s One Community Together stage between 2014 and 2015.\u00a0 All of Saturday\u2019s programming will be aired on the Sweetcorn Festival Facebook page (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/urbanasweetcorn<\/a>).\u00a0 The full schedule is listed below.<\/p>\n

Hope you will have chance to catch some or all of tomorrow\u2019s programming.\u00a0 For those seeking a taste of wonderful Illinois sweet corn, you can pick up your sweet delights today at the Lincoln Square Mall between 2 and 7pm.\u00a0 However, you will have to cook, butter, and salt your corn at home this weekend.\u00a0 Until our paths cross again, stay safe and have a great weekend.\u00a0 scott<\/p>\n

Virtual Sweetcorn Festival One Community Together Programming<\/strong><\/p>\n

August 22, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00am:\u00a0<\/strong> Past performances by the Hathaways 2014, Bow-dacious String Band 2015, Banks Bridgewater Lewis Jazz Ensemble 2015, and Capoeira Angola 2014, and \u201cStory Time for All Ages with Miss Kim \u2013 \u2018The Magic Pot\u2019 and \u2018The Stolen Smell\u2019\u201d by the Spurlock Museum.<\/p>\n

11:00am:\u00a0<\/strong> \u201cCreature Teachers \u2013 From the Parks to Your Backyard\u201d by the Anita Purves Nature Center, \u201cDrop Spindles, Whirli-gigs, and Thaumatropes Toys and Games of the Prairie\u201d by the Museum of the Grand Prairie, and \u201cStory Time for All Ages with Miss Kim \u2014 \u2018The Clever Manka’\u201d by the Spurlock Museum.<\/p>\n

12:00pm:\u00a0<\/strong> Cooking Demonstration with Baldoratta\u2019s and \u201cStory Time for All Ages with Miss Kim \u2013 \u2018The Magic Pomegranate\u2019\u201d by the Spurlock Museum.<\/p>\n

1:00pm:\u00a0<\/strong> Past performances by Bones, Jugs and Harmony 2014, Classy Combination 2015, and IPAN 2017, and \u201cSilly-Dilly Inventions\u201d by the University Library\u2019s Distributed Museum.<\/p>\n

2:00pm:\u00a0<\/strong> \u201cStory Time for All Ages with Miss Kim \u2013 \u2018Hare and the Lion\u2019 and \u2018Mercury and the Woodsman\u2019\u201d by the Spurlock Museum.<\/p>\n

3:00pm:\u00a0<\/strong> Past performances by Vojodeyl Trio 2018, Sun Stereo 2014, and Prairie Dogs 2015, and \u201cBaseball Rockets and Gravity Wells\u201d by Parkland College Staerkel Planetarium.<\/p>\n

4:00pm:\u00a0<\/strong> Past performances by the Champaign Park District Dance Arts School 2015, Banks Bridgewater Lewis Drum Corps 2019, Djibril Camara and Mara Giri Dance Ensemble 2016, and The Painkillers 2016, and \u201cConversations with Buffy the Bumblebee\u201d by the University\u2019s Pollinatarium.<\/p>\n

5:00pm:\u00a0<\/strong> Past performances by Ngoma Expressions 2018, Bruiser and the Virtues 2016, and Bali Lantari 2019, and \u201cMeet the Turtles at Homer Lake Forest Preserve\u201d AND \u201cNature Investigation\u201d\u00a0by the Homer Lake Interpretive Center.<\/p>\n

6:00pm:\u00a0<\/strong> Past performances by Diva and the Dude 2015, CUperstars 2016, and Noah Brown & Company 2016, and \u201cThree-nozzle Bloozer Horns and Other Instruments of the Band\u2013Part 1\u201d by the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.<\/p>\n

7:00pm:\u00a0<\/strong> Past performances of the Traditional Jazz Orchestra 2014, Young and the Fretless 2017, Mike Ingram and New Souls 2015, and \u201cThree-nozzle Bloozer Horns and Other Instruments of the Band\u2013Part 2\u201d by the Marching Illini.<\/p>\n

8:00pm:<\/strong>\u00a0 Past performances by Michiyoshi Sato 2016, Jean Rene Balekita and BOMOYI 2019, and Killer Bee Honey 2016, with closing remarks by Mayor Marlin, Mayor Feinen and Chancellor Jones, and a performance of \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d by the U.S. Army Band \u201cPershing\u2019s Own\u201d to images of the Urbana, Central, and Centennial Marching Bands that performed for the 2010 to the 2019 Sweetcorn Festivals.<\/p>\n

9:00pm:\u00a0<\/strong> Downtown Get Down with DJ Silkee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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