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DowntownJeffersonCity.com Stage
Quick jump: Boulevard Stage,
Main Entertainment Page
and the Mo Blues Association
July 3rd
4:00 pm
Downtown
Jefferson City/Missouri Spirits Boulevard
High Street Happy Hour
Kick-off your independence with special offers from all your favorite downtown
bars and restaurants. Look for lots of café seating perfect for people watching
and great entertainment throughout.
The
Missouri Spirits Boulevard beer garden will
open with your hosts, the Jefferson City Jaycees. Enjoy a variety of Boulevard
Brewing Company beers and Mike’s Hard Lemonade plus live on stage.
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4:00 pm
Tri-Dimensional
This eclectic group of young Jazz musicians will delight
audiences with their contemporary sound. The band includes Hermon
Mehari who has been playing trumpet for seven years. He was in the
All-State Jazz Band and went to Jefferson City High School. Hermon
attends UMKC as a jazz studies major. Brian Steever handles the drummer
and is a graduate of Helias High School. He was in the All-State Jazz
Band plays a lot around the mid Missouri area.
Zach Beeson plays the bass. He just graduated from Rock Bridge High
School in Columbia and studies music at the University of Missouri-St.
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6:00 pm
Featuring four generations of dedicated military family
the Loethens as Parade Marshall, the 2007 Little Mr. & Miss
Contest Winners, antique tractors, Drum line, floats, clowns, a camel
and much more!
Parade
route: From East Miller to north on Monroe to west on High to south on
Jefferson to east on East Miller. Viewing stand on the
DowntownJeffersonCity.com stage at High & Madison.
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7:00
pm
Watch as 4-6
year old boys and girls compete for the honor of representing the Salute
to America Festival in 2009. |
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8:00 pm
Q106.1 Street dance
featuring Bobby Showers and the Beatbox
Bobby Showers
and the Beatbox is a native Jefferson City band combining acoustic and
electric guitars, beat box, live drum beats, turntables and harmonicas
to create a sound that represents the best of today’s current music
scene. The Beatbox staring Bobby on lead vocals, acoustic guitar,
harmonica and beatbox, Jon Hagood on lead and acoustic guitars, Justin
Steele on drums and Sam Walker on turntables plays original and cover
songs ranging from Americana, pop, folk rock, blues, folk hop and R&B.
To hear some of this innovative sound, visit myspace.com/bobbyshowers |
July 4th
11:00 am -- 9:30
pm
Hosted by the
MoBlues Association
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11:00 am
Winner of the Lion-palooza
Battle of the Bands
Opening the
day will be the yet-to-be determined 2008 winners of the Lion-palooza’s
Battle of the Bands contest winner. This contest held June 28 at the Y
is hosted by the Jefferson City Breakfast Lion’s Club and spotlights
talented high school, amateur ‘garage bands’ from our community.
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1:00 am
100.1 the Buzz Presents:
Best Buy Guitar Hero Contest 2008
(registration open to first 40 contestants: 11 am to
12:30 pm)
Hey! Are you a
rock star wannabe? Then you need to enter the Best Buy Guitar Hero
Contest 2008. This bracketed event will pit you against other players
with pro-face-off music selections chosen at random. The winners of each
leg advances to the next level until you ultimately battle for the title
and win a great prize courtesy of Best Buy.
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3:30 pm
%100 Juice and “The Squeeze”
%100 Juice is
a modern blues and rock band with classic influences stemming from deep
down in the roots of blues, rock and soul. Juice members include Ryan
Tomlinson on lead guitar and vocals and Quinten Rice on drums and backup
vocals. While “the Squeeze” part of the band may change from gig to gig,
count on Dale Sapp sitting in on lead and rhythm guitar and who knows
who else.
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5:30 pm
Cold Blue
Tim Taylor and Lonnie Simmons of Jefferson City together have been
serving up the blues since 1994. Explosive and searing electric guitar,
electric slide guitar and blues harmonica backed by long time session
bass guitarist Tony Perkins and percussionist drummer Mark Ludwig both
of Jefferson City. Cold Blue cooks up some of the best nonstop jam
sessions with injections of their own original music as well as music
from Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, SRV, Freddie King and many other
great blues legends.
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photo credit: Tim Brown |
7:30 pm
Megan Boyer Band
The Megan
Boyer Band is an acoustic Blues and Roots band hailing from Central
Missouri. MBB plays everything from traditional blues and bluegrass to
unplugged classic rock. The big-smiling, big-voiced, big-hearted,
fearless front-woman of the band, Ms. Megan Boyer, is a natural born
blues ‘n roots singer/guitarist guaranteed to rock the house and delight
audiences. Throw into the mix the sixty-odd years of solid musicianship
and dedication to the craft represented by Tim Shields and Jimmy Steffan,
and the megan Boyer Band might just be one heck of a train ride from
Bluestown to Rootsville. “It’s Like Dat!”
www.meganboyerband.com |
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MC
and music by Richard Matthews Cool 97.5
on hand most of the day! |
For
a full schedule of events, click here.
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