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Pella’s new one-day, all-Iowa music festival kicks off Saturday

Four months after Tulip Time and less than three months before Kerstmarkt, the Dutch Christmas Market, Pella is hosting a slightly edgier event in their picturesque downtown. The Pella All Original Music Showcase is a free concert featuring exclusively Iowa-based […]

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Already claiming ‘goat’ status, the new Greenbelt Music Festival wants to kick off the outdoor fest season for years to come

One detail that’s still being confirmed is whether or not the goats will be in attendance at the new music festival. “A lot of people don’t know there’s a large number of goats at Clive City Hall that take care […]

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Forty years ago, volunteers pulled off the first Iowa Arts Festival. Summer in Iowa City has never been the same

What started 40 years ago as a volunteer-led labor of love is now a downtown Iowa City institution: the Iowa Arts Festival. Back in the summer of 1983, Joyce Carroll and Kristin Summerwill helped organize a multi-day event on the […]

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Camp Euforia’s 2020 festival will be its last

Organizers of the Camp Euforia music festival, including the founding band Eufórquestra, have announced that the event will discontinue after the 17th annual fest this summer. Camp Euforia began as an appreciation party for fans of Iowa City-based funk-fusion group Eufórquestra. But since that first festival in 2004, the event has expanded […]

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Leon Bridges, Of Monsters and Men, Old Crow Medicine Show and more set for Hinterland Fest

Iowans will be rockin’ like a wagon wheel at the sixth annual Hinterland Music Festival, Friday, July 31 to Sunday, Aug. 2. On Tuesday, Fest organizers announced 24 artists on their 2020 lineup, including classic country stars, alt-rock bands and everything in between. […]

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Folk music, food trucks and family fun at first-ever Prairie Land Music Fest

Prairie Land Music Fest Johnson County Fairgrounds — Friday, June 24–June 26 at 11 a.m. each day Summer generally brings thoughts of swimming pools, barbecues, ice cream cones and hot weather clothing. In Iowa City, we like to add one […]

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