Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Prairie Days Entertainment


Looking for some local, great, free entertainment? Prairie Days has a full schedule of entertainers on their outdoor stage and around the festival grounds. Visit Shawnee Prairie for the festival, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday, September 27th and from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Sunday, September 28th.

The Darke County Civic Theatre will have 3 performances throughout the weekend, 11:00 am and 3:00 pm on Saturday and 3:00 pm on Sunday. The title of this year’s Prairie Days Melodrama is “Fit To Be Tied, or The Train's Already Been Here, 'Cause It Left Its Tracks” by Craig Williams and is produced by special arrangement with Eldridge Publishing Company. The Poor famly is struggling to keep the ROCK (Railroad of Central Kansas) on track and a large job to ship cattle back East will help. But the evil banker, Vil Lain, holds the mortgage on the railroad and he and his sidekick scheme to foreclose on the ROCK. Lain tries to entice Terri Blee Poor, the heroine and by coincidence, a train whistle virtuoso, to become his wife to save her family's railroad, but Terri Blee loves a brakeman on the ROCK, Earnest Lee. When she refuses Lain's advances, she is tied to the tracks. This one-act melodrama features lots of puns, creative banter and maybe even a clue as to how the first Hard ROCK cafe got started.

There are also several musical performances to enjoy Saturday at 1:00pm delight in a concert from the Thien Snipps. Sunday features back to back performances as well. At 12:00 pm, Roger DeMange will perform followed by the band Silver Grass. All of these performances are free and fun for the whole family. For more information on Prairie Days, please contact the Darke County Park District at 937.548.0165 or visit our website at www.darkecountyparks.org.

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