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16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City1225 6th Ave., Ste 100, Marion
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Maquoketa Summer Concert Series - The Lonely Goats
<p>From roadhouse to wine bar to festival stage, The Lonely Goats bring a party wherever they play. 6 pm at the Maquoketa Downtown Green Space. Tri-M BBQ starts serving at 5:30. Bring lawn chairs for this FREE family-friendly outdoor concert. </p> 2021-05-28 20:00:00 -0500
8/05/216:00 p.m.Maquoketa Downtown Green SpaceMaquoketa -
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Blooms and Butterfly Fest
<p>Bloomsbury Farm invites to come enjoy our 3 acres of beautiful Zinnia and Cosmo Blooms! The magic of the farm will be alive and all standard attractions will be open. Buckets of Blooms and Butterfly Release tickets are available for purchase as well! You won't want to miss this flower fest!</p><p><strong>OPEN </strong>Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between July 23-August 8. We are open 11 AM - 6 PM on those days!</p><p>Follow this link for more information and ticket purchase details!</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomsburyfarm.com/upcoming-events">https://www.bloomsburyfarm.com/blooms-and-butterflies</a></p> 2021-08-06 18:00:00 -0500
8/06/2111:00 a.m.Bloomsbury FarmAtkins -
Blooms and Butterfly Fest
<p>Bloomsbury Farm invites to come enjoy our 3 acres of beautiful Zinnia and Cosmo Blooms! The magic of the farm will be alive and all standard attractions will be open. Buckets of Blooms and Butterfly Release tickets are available for purchase as well! You won't want to miss this flower fest!</p><p><strong>OPEN </strong>Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between July 23-August 8. We are open 11 AM - 6 PM on those days!</p><p>Follow this link for more information and ticket purchase details!</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomsburyfarm.com/upcoming-events">https://www.bloomsburyfarm.com/blooms-and-butterflies</a></p> 2021-08-07 18:00:00 -0500
8/07/2111:00 a.m.Bloomsbury FarmAtkins -
Blooms and Butterfly Fest
<p>Bloomsbury Farm invites to come enjoy our 3 acres of beautiful Zinnia and Cosmo Blooms! The magic of the farm will be alive and all standard attractions will be open. Buckets of Blooms and Butterfly Release tickets are available for purchase as well! You won't want to miss this flower fest!</p><p><strong>OPEN </strong>Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between July 23-August 8. We are open 11 AM - 6 PM on those days!</p><p>Follow this link for more information and ticket purchase details!</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomsburyfarm.com/upcoming-events">https://www.bloomsburyfarm.com/blooms-and-butterflies</a></p> 2021-08-08 18:00:00 -0500
8/08/2111:00 a.m.Bloomsbury FarmAtkins -
Independence BrewBQ and Bike Ride Too!
<p dir="ltr">The Independence BrewBQ is a one day outdoor festival featuring BBQ vendors, live music, a Craft Brew Zone, a bike ride and is a fundraiser for charity at the same time! This year is our 15th year and we are looking to make it the biggest and best yet.</p><p dir="ltr">Admittance into Riverwalk Parks is FREE with the opportunity to purchase delicious barbecue and brews on tap. Everyone can enjoy live music from our headlining band Crazy Delicious. Those wishing to check out the Craft Brew Zone can purchase brew tasting passes in advance or the day of the event.</p><p dir="ltr">The Craft Brew Zone is a separate fenced area with over 100 craft brews from breweries and home brewers. Each paid entrant will receive a commemorative BrewBQ glass for the tastings, and several hours to taste all of the magnificent creations from home brewers and breweries alike. Tasters are welcome to come and go as they please from the Craft Brew Zone until 7pm.</p><p dir="ltr">Really into craft beer? Purchase a limited V.I.P. Craft Brew Zone pass to gain early entry into the tasting area starting at 3pm. Taste some exclusive options during the V.I.P. hour, get a first crack at the full list of options and chat with our brewers. Craft Brew Zone participants must be at least 21 years old to enter and take part in the tasting. No one under the age of 21 is permitted into the Craft Brew Zone.</p><p dir="ltr">The <a href="http://www.brewbq.org/rash-ride-too/">R.A.S.H. Ride Too!</a> is set to kick off early in the morning. Ride at your own pace around the beautiful rolling landscape of Buchanan County all on hard surfaced roads - some of the best in the state. Ride participants can register for just the ride or also purchase Craft Brew Zone passes online at the same time. All proceeds from the ride registration benefit the Buchanan County Four Seasons Trails Association.</p><p dir="ltr">Even more information can be found on our website at <a href="http://www.brewbq.org">www.brewbq.org</a>. The Buchanan County Fair Association is our 2021 charity partner. Proceeds from this year’s event will benefit their new 4-H/Events Center building project. </p> 2021-05-03 22:00:00 -0500
8/28/2112:00 p.m.Riverwalk ParksIndependence -
Bentonsport Riverfest
<p>Part of the county wide Scenic Drive Festival, Stroll along the scenic Bentonsport park with its art fair, antiques, crafts, and shops. The historic artisan charm with demonstrations along the riverside park, music, different food vendors including oriental, tenderloins, BBQ and tacos, Amish baked goods and wine tasting will make this a fun and relaxing experience.</p><p>Stop in to see the woodworking shop or at the west end to the Indian Artifact museum and in between is just a whole lot of fun. </p><p>Lodging is available and the Bentonsport campground is close by, but get reservations early!</p><p>Visit www.greefstore.com for more information.</p> 2021-03-08 17:00:00 -0600
10/09/2110:00 a.m.Bentonsport Historic DistrictKeosauqua -
25th Anniversary Festival with Bob Dorr's Iowa Music Revue
<p>Enjoy wine slushies, Iowa cheeses and Iowa meat sticks. You may bring your own picnic. Handicap accessible & kid friendly. (No alcohol can be brought in.) $5 cover charge for this event</p> 2021-06-16 18:00:00 -0500
9/18/212:00 p.m.Tabor Home Vineyards WineryBaldwin -
History of Oktoberfest
<p>While Oktoberfest may be known nowadays for good drinks and food, it didn't begin that way. Originally, this fall festival started as a wedding and horse races! So, how did that change? Come join us to see how it evolved to become the famous and popular fall festival it is today! <strong>Please read: </strong> “BOGO” offerings are priced for two participants. Only one person has to register and pay for the class. The second participant will be required to register during the first meeting time of the class. </p><ul><li>Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</li></ul> 2021-07-07 20:00:00 -05009/16/216:30 p.m.Kirkwood Center for Lifelong LearningCedar Rapids -
Marion Healing in the Park
<p>Features 2 dozen local area service providers to offer Reiki/Energy Therapies, Quantum Healing, Psychic Readings, vendors of essential oils, metaphysical gemstone & crystals, jewelry, skin/body care products, 12pm Spanish Dance, Holistic Workshops, Mini Sessions, Readings, Raffle Prizes! (563)213-7458 The Usui Reiki Center</p> 2021-05-22 18:00:00 -0500
10/16/2110:00 a.m.Marion City Square ParkMarion -
Craft Beer Bash
<p>Millstream Brewing Co. is proud to partner with Buck Creek Distributing to bring you the 2021 Iowa Craft Beer Bash on Sunday, September 5th from 1 - 5 pm. This annual event (formerly known as the Iowa Festival of Beer) brings together 50+ Iowa breweries for a day of unlimited beer tasting, food, fun and music by the Surf Zombies. It all happens in beautiful Amana, Iowa. Tickets to this event are limited. Get them while they last and save $5 off your admission by clicking here:</p><p><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fform.jotform.com%2F211963763152154%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR24U4nhHnpRyXymb2yRvJYurmKTlnYnuctKtvdPALnWdFAizWTMhnQmEgQ&h=AT1NGQ7gUZ6LvEx6q371-6ZFs133AnKuWMZa7RFL2xTpyrH5KVKQbcKK7PJ8LEQvLqznQpYDiStqb1yYPyyOsFS9xPDv7SakCSf_uz7YoVMvgonFmrKGF7jJJ073RwJW4Cw2YJax1sBGXdNRdDyv9GW-bQ&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3n0oOnFNDnOxPq2Yvg0aPlhJa1ihdAGkMgzrEgdmcaAfzfD_UvJCkRo2n-nHqVLZ6ctgeLL2gz6GIWuC-Y_csMcra9XvxbIjDQwQbHEkPMoPimZfhjAGXPI_HR8uZtqKuhvdiVMVsA9xFxNjIMXHKBBL01VGKr-jGUfYhig1QqArY" rel="nofollow noopener" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://form.jotform.com/211963763152154</a></p> 2021-07-27 17:00:00 -0500
9/05/211:00 p.m.Millstream Brewing CompanyAmana -
History of Halloween
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="64"><tbody><tr height="20"><td height="20" width="64">Every Halloween, children don costumes and go trick treating. Many people enjoy carving pumpkins and eating sweet treats. Did you know this time honored tradition dates back thousands of years? Come see how the Celts, the Romans, the Catholic Church, and Americans have turned an ancient religious festival into a time honored tradition. “BOGO” offerings are priced for two participants. Only one person has to register and pay for the class. The second participant will be required to register during the first meeting time of the class. <ul><li>Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table> 2021-07-12 20:00:00 -050010/21/216:30 p.m.Kirkwood Center for Lifelong LearningCedar Rapids -
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Casey Donahew and more Live Outdoor Festival at First Avenue Club in Iowa City
<p>Casey Donahew returns to the First Avenue Club, with special guest artists Wade Bowen and Brad Morgan, for an outdoor show on Sunday, September 5th (Labor Day Weekend), 2021. Pit tickets are $30 (plus $5 service fee). The pit is closest to the stage and is standing room only. No chairs allowed. General Admission tickets are $25 (plus $3 Service Fee). General Admission is located behind the pit and guests are allowed to bring lawn chairs (no chaise lounges). Gates open at 3:00pm and the show begins at 4:00pm. The show will end at approximately 8:00pm. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. This is an all-ages show. THIS IS A RAIN OR SHINE EVENT.</p><p>Tickets: <a href="https://first-avenue-club.square.site/product/casey-donahew-outdoor-show-/272?cs=true&cst=custom">https://first-avenue-club.square.site/product/casey-donahew-outdoor-show-/272?cs=true&cst=custom</a></p><p>Over the last 18 years, Casey Donahew has risen from a favorite on the local Texas music scene, to racking up 21 #1 singles, to a nationally hot touring act who consistently sells out venues all across the country.</p><p>Donahew has released eight independent albums to critical and commercial acclaim. Donahew’s STANDOFF, quickly topped the iTunes Country Chart at #1, upon its release, and his follow-up album ALL NIGHT PARTY, out on August 19, 2016, immediately rocketed to #3 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart, #13 on the Top Album Sales Chart and Top Current Album Sales Chart and #40 on the Billboard 200 Chart. The project also took the #2 spot on the Internet Albums Chart and landed at #3 on the Independent Albums Chart. His 15th anniversary record titled 15 YEARS, THE WILD RIDE, a collection of Donahew’s most popular songs, and the ones that droves of fans sing night after night at his live concerts, was inspired by and became a gift for those fans who remain loyal in Donahew’s standing-room-only audiences.</p><p>His current album ONE LIGHT TOWN, garnered Donahew his latest #1 single, “Let’s Make A Love Song, which was the #1 most played independent song on country radio for 2019 and had BILLBOARD spouting upon its release “…’Let’s Make A Love Song’ has radio written all over it”.</p><p>Casey, a Burleson, Texas native, has painstakingly (with the help of his wife Melinda) carved out an impressive niche for himself on the country music scene. over the past decade, attracting a solid base of loyal fans who flock to his legendary live shows. Building his career from the ground up one show at a time, he’s managed to perform on countless stages night after night in front of thousands, topped the Texas music charts several times, released four albums independently to critical acclaim, and forged a path all his own through the music scene without the aid or muscle of a major record label or power-suit management company. The country star has risen to new heights he never could have imagined when he first plugged in onstage at the Thirsty Armadillo bar in Fort Worth’s Stockyards in the Fall of 2002, and began constructing his own field of musical dreams.</p><p>Wade Bowen is a Texas Country/Red Dirt artist from Waco, Texas. Bowen was a member of the band West 84 with friend Matt Miller until 2001 when the group became known as Wade Bowen and West 84. Bowen released his fourth studio album, The Given, in 2010. It was his first on a major label, Sony imprint BNA Records, though he returned to releasing music independently after BNA closed. He released a self-titled studio album in 2014, followed by a duets album in 2015 with singer Randy Rogers of the Randy Rogers Band, titled Hold My Beer Vol. 1. Bowen's next album was Then Sings My Soul: Songs for My Mother, a solo gospel influenced studio release. He has released 3 more albums: Watch This, with Randy Rogers, Solid Ground, released in 2018, and a follow up to Hold My Beer Vol. 1, Hold My Beer Vol. 2 with Randy Rogers. During the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020, Wade started a web series of live shows called Wade's World, where he hosted other prominent Texas musicians to play and tell stories about their songs every Friday night. Guests included Bruce Robison, Cody Canada, Jack Ingram, and others.</p><p>Brad Morgan is a country artist and songwriter who was born and raised on a farm near Manning, Iowa. While currently residing in Nashville, TN, he continues to build on the success he has had in Iowa and the Midwest. Brad has an easy going sound while presenting a fun and energetic live performance. His Midwest Country roots are found in crowd favorites such as, “Unlocked,” “Catchin’ Nothin’ But a Buzz,” “Plan B is for Beer,” “Perfect for Me,” and "Grain of Salt." Since 2011, Brad has released a full-length album and two EP’s, including his 2015 self-titled EP, “Brad Morgan.” In 2019 Brad released, "Grain of Salt," a fun, storytelling, summertime single which charted at number 11 in the nation on the New Music Weekly Chart. Brad just released his latest single, "You Don't Know" in 2021.</p><p><br></p> 2021-07-14 20:00:00 -0500
9/05/213:00 p.m.First Avenue ClubIowa City -
Country Fuzz Presents: The Cadillac Three at the First Avenue Club in Iowa City
<p>Country Fuzz Presents: The Cadillac Three with special guest Jobe Fortner on Friday, November 5<sup>th</sup>, 2021. There are 3 price levels: Reserved Table: SOLD OUT Reserved tables are in a gated off elevated area on exterior walls of the club. Cadillac Pit: SOLD OUT. Pit consist of reserved standing area in front area of stage, beverage coupon and can koozie. General Admission tickets: $25. Doors are at 7:30pm and the show begins at 8:30pm.</p><p>Tickets: <a href="https://first-avenue-club.square.site/product/the-cadillac-three-/55?cs=true&cst=custom">https://first-avenue-club.square.site/product/the-cadillac-three-/55?cs=true&cst=custom</a></p><p>It may be a ballsy move for The Cadillac Three to name their new album LEGACY, but if any country band has the shared history to lay claim to such a weighty title, it’s the longhaired trio of Nashville natives.</p><p>Singer-guitarist Jaren Johnston, drummer Neil Mason and lap-steel player Kelby Ray have known one another since they were teens and have been sharing stages together for nearly 15 years. This summer, they’ll headline their hometown’s most famous venue, the Ryman Auditorium, just a few blocks from where Johnston and Ray sat in high-school math class daydreaming about one day playing the legendary hall. Johnston’s connection to the Ryman goes back even further: his father has been a drummer at the Grand Ole Opry since Jaren was a child. And now he has a son of his own, who, like his old man, will be well-versed in all the sounds that make up both Music City and The Cadillac Three, from country and blues to rock & roll.</p><p>So, yeah, “legacy” looks good on this band.</p><p>“We’re trying to build something and do it our way, which is always harder,” says Johnston. “If you’re going to leave something that people are actually going to remember, you can’t take the easy way. So we took all of our history, mixed it with the energy of The Cadillac Three and put it into a record that makes sense of where we’ve been and where we’re going.”</p><p>After nearly a full year on the road in support of 2016’s BURY ME IN MY BOOTS, their first full-length album recorded for Big Machine Records, the group returns with a more mature perspective. Johnston, Mason and Ray have experienced a lot on tour, whether opening arenas across the country on Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots Tour or headlining their own consistently sold-out string of sweaty club and theater shows in the U.K. and Europe. As they prepare to head back in November for another big run, for The Cadillac Three, the old saying really is true: this band is huge overseas.</p><p>“Europe showed us that we should bet on ourselves. It was a big gamble the first time we went over there,” says Mason, “but the shows and the fans have continued to grow.”</p><p>“And going overseas reinforced that we wanted to get more music out more quickly,” adds Ray. “They go through singles really quickly over there. They want more, more, more and that encouraged us to go into the studio, knock this album out and keep going.”</p><p>All that travel, from city to state, country to continent, could decimate a lesser band, but it only served to creatively inspire the mighty TC3. They wrote many of the 11 songs that make upLEGACY on the road, cut the tracks on rare days off in Nashville and then recorded all of Johnston’s vocals – one of the most “country” voices in the genre – in the back lounge of their bus in between shows, adding a crackling sense of vitality to LEGACY. They also produced the album themselves.</p><p>“We knew what we wanted to do with this record. Instead of putting it together in bits and pieces, we started with a batch of songs and then picked a single,” Johnston says. “That’s how this shit should be done.”</p><p>That back-to-basics approach to making music yielded the band’s most infectious single to date: the woozy sing-along “Dang If We Didn’t.” Written, as is most of the album, by Johnston and Mason (here, with Jonathan Singleton; other times with songwriters like Laura Veltz and Angelo Petraglia), “Dang If We Didn’t” teases fans with its ambiguous title, before revealing what the guys actually did in the chorus: get drunk last night.</p><p>“When you’re a songwriter, you can be critical of song titles,” says Johnston. “But with ‘Dang If We Didn’t,’ I thought it was a little bit mysterious. It makes you wonder, ‘Dang if we didn’t do what?'”</p><p>“Eat pizza last night,” quips Mason. “It could be anything.”</p><p>“American Slang” rivals “Dang If We Didn’t” in its grandeur. It’s a huge song, akin to Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin'” or The Cadillac Three’s own “Graffiti,” off BURY ME IN MY BOOTS. Lori McKenna (Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush”) began writing the tune with the intention of having The Cadillac Three finish it. “We are vampires on Hollywood Boulevard / angels and sinners of our hometown streets,” go the lyrics, painting a picture of life’s rebels, before a massive country-radio chorus kicks in: “We are the back roads, dirty water shore banks…we are born and raised on American slang.”</p><p>The constant throughout LEGACY, however, lies in the players: as on all three of The Cadillac Three’s albums, only Johnston, Mason and Ray are the musicians. There’s no guest keyboard player, no second percussionist and certainly no bassist. Ray holds down the low end on his lap steel.</p><p>Especially on the standout LEGACY track “Take Me to the Bottom,” which features Johnston reaching high for a breathtaking falsetto. “‘Take Me to the Bottom’ has the best bass sound of anything I’ve ever done,” says Ray, who also keeps things greasy on the intense “Tennessee.” A thrashing love song, it evokes the stomp of ZZ Top – a favorite of TC3 – and features a lyrical shout-out to progressive country hero Sturgill Simpson, a kindred spirit of the band.</p><p>No matter the influence, though, the trio stays faithful to their own unique sound throughout LEGACY. “Hank & Jesus” glides along with Tennessee twang; “Demolition Man” is distinguished by the space between the notes; and the swaggering “Cadillacin'” is a band anthem. “We don’t put anything on our albums that we can’t re-create live,” says Mason. “If there is a TC3 rule, it’s that: keep it honest.”</p><p>Honesty, or authenticity, is a favorite buzzword around Nashville. But few artists come to it as naturally as The Cadillac Three. These guys couldn’t fake it if they tried. In the album’s title track, they offer a heart-on-the-sleeve testimony to what’s really important at the end of one’s days: love and a family tree.</p><p>When Mason and Ray heard “Legacy,” co-written by Johnston, they flipped, and pushed for it to be the title of the record. “We’re far enough along in our careers where doing an album called LEGACY doesn’t feel presumptuous to me,” says Mason.</p><p>Not when you run through The Cadillac Three’s milestones. It’s all there, from boundary-pushing albums, Grammy-nominated No. 1 songwriting across genres and fan-favorite singles to sold-out club shows and massive festival gigs alongside Aerosmith.</p><p>“With this album, we’re continuing to build this thing we’ve created. We’re touring nonstop, headlining shows in the U.K., playing the Ryman, and putting out a new record,” says Johnston. “Shit, that’s a pretty good legacy so far.”</p><p>Jobe Fortner: Hailing from Dahlonega, Georgia, country singer and songwriter Jobe Fortner’s musical roots run deep. Jobe grew up singing hymns in church alongside his family. “You didn’t have to be good, and it didn’t matter if you were bad. I think everyone would just feel the environment, room, music, and love… that’s really what translates directly to what I do today!” Jobe moved to Nashville in February of 2016 to start to make a name for himself. His debut self-titled EP was released in early 2018 and sparked a different level of buzz for Fortner. It garnered the attention of other national acts and led to opening gigs with Frankie Ballard, Riley Green, Toby Keith, The Cadillac Three, Whiskey Myers, Cody Johnson, The Steel Woods, Dwight Yoakam and also led to more shows with Luke Combs. Jobe’s sound crosses over extremely well from Southern Rock all the way to some modern country influence. It blends all his aspects of his gospel roots, to his country upbringing and his time on the road.</p> 2021-07-14 00:00:00 -0500
11/05/217:30 p.m.First Avenue ClubIowa City