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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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