Summer Arts and Music Events Across Iowa City to Cedar Rapids
A busy slate of outdoor concerts fairs and theater runs through Iowa cities. Highlights include Old Creamery Theatre Company bingo at Amana and Swingin At Sunset in Marion along with Cedar Rapids Uptown Friday Nights and Downtown Farmers Market. In Iowa City watch All-in-a-Day Play Festival at Englert Theatre and World Port at Campbell Steele Gallery as well as Dennis McMurrin bands. Numerous venues list times contact numbers and ticket info.
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Old Creamery Theatre Company
Englert Theatre
E. Washington St
Iowa City
Dreamwell.org
Farmers Market
3Rd & 4Th Avenues
Greene Square
Cedar Rapids
Downtowner
Korn
Etix.com
Campbell Steele
Seventh Ave
Marion
Cambellsteele
George
The
Vernon Inn
Mt Vernon Rd
Hardacre festival spotlights indie film in Tipton
Independent filmmakers from around the world converge on Tipton Iowa for the 12th Hardacre Film and Cinema Festival. Washington D C filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer premiere Their film Out in the Silence addressing rural LGBTQ voices amid a slate of 30 films.
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Diana Nollen
Gazette
Ipton
Iowa
Tipton
Cedar County
Hardacre
Joe Wilson
Dean Hamer
Washington, D.C
Wilson
Aug 7 8 at Hardacre Theatre festival shows Iowa premieres
The Hardacre Theatre festival runs August 7 and 8 at the 300 seat air conditioned art deco venue in operation since 1917. From 140 submissions the program spans animated shorts, live action, narratives and documentaries with some films lasting five minutes and others two hours. Festival director Will Valet of Tipton notes most titles are Iowa or Midwest premieres and some are world premieres. Two documentaries of note are Out in the Silence at 5 15 p.m. August 8 and Pride of Lions, winner of Best Documentary, at 8 45 p.m. August 8.
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Oulse Woehrle
Pride of Lions
Sierra Leone
Hardacre
Tipton
Iowa
Will Valet
Midwest
Valet
Hardacre Film and Cinema Festival Two Nights in Tipton
The Hardacre Film and Cinema Festival runs August 7 from 6 p.m. to midnight and August 8 from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Hardacre Theater, Tipton. Tickets are 15 for an all festival pass or 6 per opening day, Saturday, or closing night. After-hours coffee and conversation at A Place to Land, Tipton. Information at www hardacrefilmfestival.com.
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Hardacre Film and Cinema Festival
Hardacre Theater
E. Fifth St
Tipton
Cedar St
Hardacrefilmfestival.com
Guitar Shorty headlines Bluesmore at Brucemore Cedar Rapids
Guitar Shorty, with decades of blues pedigree including ties to Ray Charles and Jimi Hendrix, headlines Bluesmore at Brucemore on Saturday. Gates open 3 p.m. music 4 to 9 30 p.m. on the Brucemore front lawn 2160 Linden Dr SE Cedar Rapids. On site vendors offer drinks and food while Dennis Daddy O McMurrin and the Demolition Band start at 4 p.m. Mike Zito performs at 6 p.m. and Shorty takes the stage at 8 p.m. Tickets 13 advance 15 at gate free under 10. For details see brucemore.org lcbs.org.
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Herbert Hoover Library & Museum
Parkside Dr
West Branch
Hooverassociation
Brucemore
Linden Dr
Cedar Rapids
Brucemore.org
Icbs
Guitar Shorty
Ray Charles
New Orleans
Dew Drop Inn
T Bone Walker
Little Richard
Jimi Hendrix
Linn County Blues Society
Big House
Linden Dr. SE
Dennis “Daddy-O
McMurrin
Demolition
MecMurrin
Iowa
Mike Zito
St. Louis
Shorty
Lcbs
Parlor City Pub preserves Art Vault history in Cedar Rapids
The Parlor City Pub at 1125 Third St SE Cedar Rapids transforms a flood damaged Art Vault space into a saloon style pub with preserved tile floors and ornate ceiling. Menu features burgers pizzas and sandwiches with Jucy Lucy and Spicy Lucy burgers noted. Local history notes Parlor City Groceries once operated at the site and Cedar Rapids was nicknamed Parlor City in the Victorian era.
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Third St
Cedar Rapids
Parlorcitypub
Mark Stoffer Hunter
Parlor City Groceries
Kresi
Cliff Jette
the Gazette
Parlor City Pub & Eatery
Third Ave
New Bohemia
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Mount Vernon
First Street
Castle Ridge
Greene Square Park
Nelo
Java House
Washington
Dennis McMurrin
Summerofthearts
Kosek
Czech Village
Chrome Horse Saloon
Third Street
Chromek
Aloon
Ellis Park
Morgan Jones
Cedarrapids.org
Robert A Lee
Iowa City Recreation Center
S. Gilbert
Harold
Iowa City Public Library
S. Linn St
Ushers Ferry
Usher's Ferry
Tfeat C
Haraacre
Sita Sings the Blues
In the
Hamer
Shorty Bluesmore
Vette
Parlor City
Cedar Rapids Area
Joe Jelink
Steph Jelinek
Angela Holmes
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