Arts Festival
Main Street Arts Festival
August 28th 2010
On Historic Magna Main Street
On Saturday August 28th, Magna’s Historic Main Street will host the first annual Main Street Arts Festival. The festival is presented by the Magna Arts Council. This special event will include food, music, dancing, art exhibits, a raffle, activities, and more.
Painting, photography, writing, sculpture, drawing, and other creative works, will be on display. Main Street will be closed to traffic on Saturday to make room for vendors, artists, games, and more. Twelve live bands will be playing, and other special performers will be entertaining people on the street. There will be games and activities for the kids, and other events to participate in. There will be something exciting happening all day!
- Prize Drawings will be held at the top of every hour at the Main Stage. Visit a vendor or business on Main Street to get a raffle ticket.
- All businesses on Main Street will be open and many will be having special offers during the festival.
- Free Sidewalk Chalk all day.
Volunteers
The Main Street Arts Festival is made possible by the hard work of volunteers. We need your help to make this event a success. Volunteer opportunities are available in areas such as: Information Booth, Set-up, Clean-up, stage crew, Art Show, Kids Crafts area, vending, and other areas. Training will be provided. You will be in the shade or indoors. Sign up today!
Volunteer Benefits:
- Free Commemerative T-Shirt
- Lunch/Dinner from the Kiwi Bakery and Pizza Stop
- Unlimited water and soda pop
- Birds eye view of festival activities
- Take Pride in your community
If you are interested in being involved email the Festival Committee at:
mainstreetartsfestival@gmail.com
Photo Credit: David Rowan
Live Music
Music Performances will be held at the Main Festival Stage at 9150 West. Performers at this year’s festival include:
10 AM – The Beam Me Up Ska-Ts
11 AM – Brian Bingham Band
12 AM – Rockin Rob and the Hound Dogs
1 PM – Buyin Time
2 PM – Crashing At Dawn
3 PM – Gen H
4 PM – The Assent
5 PM – Wolf Gang
6 PM – One
8 PM – MollyDrive
Interested in performing?
Contact Wes Ferguson at wfurgason@gmail.com
Visual Art
The Third Annual Community Art Show will be held during the festival.
New this year – Photography Category!
Artists from Salt Lake and Tooele Counties are welcome to enter. Bring your original work, created within the last two years. Paintings and photographs must be framed and ready to hang.
Drop off your entries with submission form and entry fee at the Magna Branch of Zions Bank, 8375 West 3500 South, during regular banking hours, by Thursday, August 19th.
Works will be judged prior to an Opening Reception held at 7:00 pm on Friday the 27th at 9145 West 2700 South. Participants and their guests are invited to the reception for light refreshments and announcement of the winners. Cash awards in each division will be as follows: First $50, Second $30, and Third $20.
Categories are: Oil/Acrylic, Watercolor, Photography, and 3-D/Sculpture.
Photo Credit: David Rowan
Performing Arts
At the Main Street Arts Festival all types of artistic expression will be included. Dancing, Theater, Comedy, Magic, Buskers, storytelling, and many other special performances.
Special Performances by:
- OPA Greek Dancers and Dionysios Greek Dancers from 7 to 9
- The First Annual Storytelling festival at the Empress Theatre from 2 to 9
- Aerial Dance Performances at various times in the Empress Theatre
- Book Readings and signing by local authors, Rob Goble and Chaz Collard.
- The 337 Project truck will be traveling to Magna for the festival.
- Hip Hop art demonstration by Uprok Records
- Dance performances and classes at the Magna Senior Center from 1 to 5
Want to share your special talent? Send us an email and we will make sure you are included.
Vendors
At the Main Street Arts Festival, we will have over 50 vendors stretching up and down Main Street.
Browse arts and crafts for sale from local artists. Get information from local non-profit groups. Make a purchase at any vendor and receive a raffle ticket.
Featured Food Vendors include The Chow Truck, P & K Oriental Market, Tacos, Western Style Barbaque, The Fry Guy Donuts, and more.
Sponsors
We would like to thank this year’s sponsors of the Mains Street Arts Festival.
Other Sponsors/Supporters:
Magna Dental Clinic
Curves – Magna
Electrical Mechanical Repair
Bingham Dental
Copper King
Anonymous
The Pizza Stop
Kiwi Bakery
Peel Funeral Home
Good Clean Fun Car Wash
Sophia’s Salon
Kathy’s Flower Boutique
Energy Solutions
Cyprus Credit Union
England Counseling
Questions/Comments
For any other information, or to submit suggestions for the festival, email the Festival Committee at:
mainstreetartsfestival@gmail.com
Check back here for updates and follow the Main Street Arts Festival on Facebook.
This looks like it could be pretty fun!
Our band would like to come and play live classic rock (Tom petty, soul asylum, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, and similar originals) at this event. We’re based in Sandy, have a high quality sound, and would like to play once or twice over this wknd for at least an hour. Sounds like fun and we’d like to participate ! We’ll be at The Dawgpound this Saturday. Thanks for your consideration ! Go Magna !
Hello, my name is Jesse Michael Garcia and I am the drummer for a three-piece original rock band named ‘Shift Shadows’ based out of SLC, Utah. We are currently booking shows around the region, (we have played at such local venue’s as The Urban Lounge, Liquid Joe’s, Burt’s Tiki Lounge, Bar Deluxe, South Shore Bar Grill, Club Abyss, Mo’s Bar Grill, The Dawg Pound, Bad Ass Coffee House, Batter’s Up Sport’s Bar, 5 Monkeys, Club Vegas, Barbary Coast Saloon, The Big Easy (in Lehi), The Sugarhouse Gallery Stroll, and at the Utah State Capitol as well), and we would love to perform for you. So, please check out our myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/shiftandshadows for a sample of our sound. Thank you for your time and attention!
http://www.myspace.com/jessemichaelgarciamusic
ONE is a classic rock cover band that would like to come and support Magna during their Arts Festival. We are a five-piece band and love to play at venues like this. We have played at Draper Days, The Wasatch County Fair, AM-JAM, Best In Music, Clinton Days, etc. We have even played at The Filling Station there in Magna. Check out our website at http://www.onerockband.com for bios on the band and to listen to some of our music. Check out our list of songs there too – you’ll find songs from Journey, Tom Petty, Eagles, .38 Special, Rick Springfield, Toto, ZZ Top, Wild Cherry, Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix and many more. We’d love to come and support your efforts in making this an affair to remember!
Yay! for reviving Magna. Its just what we need. So excited to have an arts festival.
This is great! I cant wait!
This oughta change the people look at Magna its along time coming and oughta be a hit. see ya there
This sounds awesome! I can hardly wait! It would be cool if there was a chalk art thing for the kids.
I wish I would have know about this sooner, I would have loved to participate.
I look forward to attending this and supporting this. Hopefully next year I will be able to set something up and volunteer.
This is great. I’ll be there to support and participate at the Arts Festival. Go Magna, Go
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Hi I am rick with the fry guy mini donuts we are looking forward to this show we are a magna based company we will be adding maple donuts for the first time these are very good we make them right on the spot with our donuts making machine so look for us at the festival we will be located in front of magna times we do weddings bd partys our website is thefryguyminidonuts.com or follow us on facebook under the fry guy mini donuts see you at the festival