PARK RAPIDS -- The Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts Council will showcase the artistic talents of
area youth during Youth Music and Art Showcase VII Thursday and Friday in downtown Park Rapids.
The Youth Showcase coincides with Park Rapids’ All School Reunion, which will kick off with the youth band Incredibly Real opening the concert at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Second Street Stage.
Day care providers and parents of preschoolers are invited to bring their charges downtown to do chalk art on sidewalks Friday morning. Free chalk will be available at Wildwood Enchantment, 209 South Main Ave.
Youth musicians will perform from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday at Pioneer Park in downtown Park Rapids. Solo performers will be Alex Ziemann, breakdancer Evan Lowry Simpson and keyboard musicians Alicia Health, Zach Heath and Garit Hockett.
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Bands returning this year are Hog Rooster and the Bervig Family. Prairie Thunder Drum from Pine Point also will participate. The Resistance, a Nevis-area band with a new name and some
new members will play, including musicians Joscelin Eischens, Michael Nicklaus, Austin Kalla, Andrew Sauser and Bob Sauser.
A duo of Evan Booge on saxophone and guitar and Bobby Bruce on bass clarinet and keyboard will perform. There also is the duo of Jasmine Glennon doing vocals and Zoe Sutton, keyboard and vocals. From noon to 4 p.m. Friday, youth are invited to add drawings or doodle on panels in the park to create Art on the Spot. Art supplies will be provided. The panels will be displayed at the Nemeth Art Center following the event.
