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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Contact: Tammy Miller, Columbia Parks and Recreation - (573) 874-7465

30th Annual Heritage Festival & Craft Show planned

COLUMBIA, MO (September 11, 2007) - Step back in time at the 30th
Annual Heritage Festival and Craft Show, coordinated by Columbia Parks
and Recreation. The two-day event will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Sept. 15-16 at historic Nifong Park. 

Visitors will be able to experience life as it was in the 19th century
with a wide variety of activities. Popular features of the Heritage
Festival include a fiddlers’ competition, replica Lewis and Clark and
cowboy camps, an 1859 town with more than 30 tents of shopkeepers,
American Indian dancing, and artisans and tradesmen dressed in period
attire demonstrating their trades and selling their wares. 

A wide range of entertainment will be featured on three stages,
including music, dancing and storytelling. New entertainers this year
are the Haskell Indian Nations Dancers, trick roper and yodeler Randy
Erwin, the St. Louis Czech Express, mountain man Jim “Two Crows”
Wallen and blues singer Lemuel Shepard. Other featured entertainers
include Together with Drumming, Professor Farquar’s Medicine Man show,
BoCoMo Drumheads and Dancers, Pendragon Puppets, Jason the Juggler,
cowboy poets, soul, big band, jazz, roots and many local bands. 

Visitors can pick up some early holiday gifts in the large
contemporary, handmade craft area. Saturday evening ghost stories from 8
to 9:30 p.m. will offer thrills. Children will enjoy numerous activities
in the Fun for Young‘uns Area and hayrides are fun for the entire
family, as well as tours of the historic Maplewood Home and Village, and
the Walter’s Boone County Historical Museum. 

The Heritage Festival is coordinated and sponsored by Columbia Parks
and Recreation and co-sponsored by: Boehmer Chiropractic and
Acupuncture, Boone County Historical Society, Columbia Convention &
Visitors Bureau Tourism Development Fund, Columbia Daily Tribune, Hilton
Garden Inn, Metro Rotary Club & Missouri River Communities Network.

Nifong Park is located at the AC exit in Columbia off of Highway 63
south. Turn west off exit to Grindstone Parkway to Ponderosa. Visitors
can either park on-site or shuttle from the Ice Chalet Antique Mall. For
more information, call 573-874-7460 or visit www.GoColumbiaMo.com.

SPECIAL PERFORMERS - (Check schedule for performance times.)
Haskell Native American Dancers
The Haskell performers are a group of Native American dancers who
represent Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. Haskell
Indian Nations University is honored and pleased to present an array of
dancers who are chosen from a select group of students. They are
considered professionals in their chosen dance styles. They travel
extensively throughout the pow-wow world and compete with other dancers,
nationally. They are considered the “best of the best.”

The performers are dressed in their traditional dance regalia and
provide and explanation of their particular dance style. They
demonstrate inter tribal dance style that is unique among many tribes
throughout North America. Their dance regalia are outfitted with designs
and colors distinct to their particular area and/or tribe. The dancers
possess a contemporary and traditional knowledge base that encompasses
past and present ways of life. They enjoy the presentation as well as
sharing their knowledge that they accumulated from their tribal elders
and people. 

St. Louis Czech Express 
Specializing in ethnic music (polkas, waltzes, etc) and in Czech,
German, Polish, Slovenian, Hungarian and Italian, this band has been
together 15 years. The group performs songs in five different languages
and travels throughout the United States and Canada. 
Professor Farquar’s Great American Medicine Show
Check your schedule for this medicine show with amazing demonstrations
of sharp shooting, illusion, science, chicanery, psychic forecasting and
good old-fashioned flim-flam. His assistant Polecat Annie will teach
children 19th century games in the Fun for Young’uns area.

Lemuel Shepard
Lemuel Shepard is a folk musician with rare abilities. He carries an
appreciation for a wide range of vocal music he refers to as
African-American traditional song. This, combined with his ability to
perform many historical and geographical blues styles has gained him a
reputation as an authority on African-American folk music. Despite his
reputation for being a scholar, Lemuel feels his cultural heritage is
his greatest asset as a performer. His series “I’ve Seen Rivers”
is an original composition written to commemorate the bicentennial of
the Lewis and Clark expedition with a musical tribute to York, a servant
of William Clark. 

Shepard states, “So much of the blues is about personal expression,
an artist should be able to connect with the audience and share
something about their life and time.”

In 1999, Shepard was nominated by a congressional committee to
represent the state of Kansas in a solo performance at the Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Embassy in Brazil referred to Lemuel
as "the perfect touring artist...talented, flexible, interested in the
local culture, and knowledgeable of his own." The Eisteddfod
International Music Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, referred to
Lemuel (the first American to perform there) as an example of
inter-cultural relations. Adding to his expansive credits, he was
inducted into the Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame.

1859 TOWN
A replica of a 19th century village, created with canvas tents, with
living history interpreters will show the occupations of ancestors to
include: A school marm with students, a mortician, doctor, politician,
U.S. Marshall and militia infantrymen, two sutler mercantile, a saloon,
townspeople, barber/dentist and baker. Approximately 30 tents will
define the town.

Pendragon Puppets
Scotty Selch of Pendragon Puppets, is a traditional puppet maker (2nd
generation) who will display handmade traditional puppets with shows
occurring throughout the day in the town. He will stay on-site in the
1859 Town for the entire event interacting with visitors when not
performing. 

COWBOY’S LIFE
Cowboy Camp with Chuckwagons
The Cowboy Camp area will include two chuck wagons set up to display
equipment, western tack and outdoor cooking. Six Cowboys, who are
established members of the Missouri Cowboy Poets Association, tell
stories and poetry, sing and cook camp food over an open fire. Cowboys
perform on stage for young and old audiences throughout the weekend.

Randy Erwin - trick roper and yodeler
A winner of the Dallas Observer’s best vocalist, best country and
western, and best avant garde awards, Randy makes a living trick roping
and yodeling. Randy has performed at the Library of Congress, Carnegie
Hall, the New Orleans Jazz Festival and the Seattle International
Children’s Festival and at Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wembley Arena in
England. He has recorded four critically acclaimed CDs and his yodeling
can be heard on Walt Disney’s “Home on the Range.” See his
performance Sunday, September 16 at 12:30. 

LEWIS & CLARK EXPLORATION OUTPOST AND THE LIFE OF A MOUNTAIN MAN
Outpost
The outpost features a camp with canvas tents and tipis in an
arrangement typical of an original outpost. See historical displays
about Lewis and Clark’s journey through Missouri and across the
country, including a trunk full of furs, replica boats, and other
educational resources. Also find Missouri Territory survey maps showing
the Missouri River of 1820 and detailing Lewis and Clark’s journey
through Missouri, as well as maps of ship wrecks.

Jim “Two Crows” Wallen
For both days, Jim Two Crows Wallen will present living history through
a first person interpretation. This historical re-enactor will display
artifacts at his teepee where he will stay all weekend in hand-designed
and historically accurate clothing. He was awarded the National
Storytelling Network Service Award in 1999, the National Pegasus Award
in 2003 and was the official storyteller of the St. Charles, Missouri
Lewis and Clark National Signature Event in 2004. Listeners are often
quoted saying, “He made me feel like I was actually there!” Two
Crows invites you to be submerged in history through his exciting
presentations.

Saturday, September 15
Museum Stage - Porch of Boone County Museum
11:00 - 11:50 Cowboy Poetry & Music
12:00 - 12:50 Cowboy Poetry & Music
1:00 - 1:50 Professor Farquar - Medicine Man Show
2:00 - 5:00 Taylor McBaine Memorial Fiddlers Competition

Main Stage - Behind the Maplewood Home
11:00 -12:00 Nashville Country Church Band - Gospel
12:15 -1:15 Bluegrass Brigade
1:30 - 2:30 St. Louis Czech Express
2:45 - 3:45 St. Louis Czech Express
4:00 - 5:00 Mule Kickers - Clogging
7:00 - 7:45 Paul Baum - Native American Flute
8:00 - 9:30 Ghost Stories presented by the Mid-Missouri Organization of
Storytelling

Maplewood Barn Theater Stage
11:30 - 12:30 BoCoMo Drumheads & Dancers
12:30 - 1:30 Haskell Indian Nations Dancers
1:45 - 3:15 Norm Ruebling Band
3:30 - 5:00 Kansas City Street Band

Sunday, September 16 
Museum Stage - Porch of the Boone County Museum
11:00 - 11:50 John & Mary - gospel
12:00 - 12:50 Curreykorn - folk
1:00 - 1:50 Cowboy Poetry & Music
2:00 - 2:50 Professor Farquar - Medicine Man Show
3:00 - 3:50 Lemuel Shepard - Traditional Blues
4:00 - 5:00 Cowboy Poetry & Music

Main Stage - Behind the Maplewood Home
11:00-12:00 Judy Domeny-Bowen - Ozark/Folk
12:15-1:15 Ironweed Swampgrass - Cajun
1:30-2:30 Jason the Juggler 
2:30 220th Anniversary signing of Constitution - Columbia DAR
2:45-3:45 Ironweed Bluegrass Band
4:00-5:00 Community Band

Maplewood Barn Theater Stage
11:30 - 12:30 Together with Drumming - interactive 
12:30 - 1:30 Randy Erwin - trick roper and yodeler
1:30 - 2:15 Together with Drumming - interactive
2:15 - 3:15 Haskell Indian Nations Dancers
3:30 - 5:00 Chump Change 

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