[Press Release] : 32nd Annual Heritage Festival and Craft Show: Sept. 19-20

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Contact: Tammy Miller, 874-7465
               Karen Ramey, 874-6397

32nd Annual Heritage Festival and Craft Show: Sept. 19-20

COLUMBIA, MO - Listen, learn and see history as it comes alive at the
31st Annual Heritage Festival, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
September 19-20 in historic Nifong Park. A wide variety of entertainment
on three stages will be featured. Visitors will also learn about the mid
19th century strolling through an 1859 town of shopkeepers and
townspeople. Artisans and tradesmen will be dressed in 19th century
attire demonstrating their trades. The Festival will also feature a
mountain man camp, a Lewis and Clark replica outpost and a cowboy camp
with chuck wagons. 
	
Entertainment on three stages will include music, dancing and
storytelling. Featured entertainers include the Haskell Indian Nations
Dancers, Branson Variety Show Performers (Johnny Lonestar - roping, gun
spinning, whip cracking, Clay Cooper and funny man Matt Gumm), Professor
Farquar - Medicine Man, roots music and Western swing, bluegrass, Cajun,
blues, jazz, folk, an old-time string band, a fiddlers’ competition,
and many local bands. On Saturday, ghost stories will offer thrills from
8-9:30 p.m. 

The crafts area will offer the opportunity for shopping for handmade
gifts. Children will enjoy numerous activities in the Fun for
Young‘uns Area and hayrides. Tour the historic Maplewood Home and
the Walter’s Boone County Historical Museum. Great food and a
beautiful park setting will make the Heritage Festival a family
tradition!

The Heritage Festival is coordinated by Columbia Parks and Recreation
and sponsored by 360Columbia, Columbia Convention & Visitors Bureau
Tourism Development Program, and the Columbia Daily Tribune.

For more information, call 573-874-7460 or visit www.GoColumbiaMo.com. 
     


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