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“IT’S MORPHED INTO A HUGE EVENT WITH A CONCERT, A KEG TOSS COMPETITION, A QUILT SHOW AND A PARADE. THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.”
- KIM KILROY, EVENT ORGANIZER
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I think people gravitate towards that.” The event dates back to an annual gathering of black powder shooters in the 1970s. Tammy Lawler, president of the local chamber of commerce and one of the primary organizers, said the event grew from that small shoot- ing event to the three-day festival it is today. She said it’s a great way to shake
o the cabin fever blues of winter. “It’s morphed into a huge event with a concert, a keg toss competition, a quilt show and a parade. There’s something
for everyone,” she said.
The highlight of this year’s event is a
Friday night concert at the Lake Koo- canusa Arena featuring High Valley, a Canadian country band originally from Alberta who has made it big in Nashville. The band has put out four albums and won numerous country music awards.
Saturday’s festivities kick o at 7 a.m. with a community breakfast at the senior center. A few hours later the Rendezvous Fun Run starts and the ea market and craft show open at the county fairgrounds. The parade
through downtown Eureka kicks o at noon and is followed by one of the most unique events of the entire weekend, the bed races down U.S. Highway 93. Chamber Vice President Holly Vanbe- mmel said teams of ve people decorate and push their beds down the street. Saturday’s events are topped o with the annual arm wrestling champion- ship and keg toss.
Festivities continue Sunday with the craft fair, quilt show and antique car show. While organizers pride them- selves on o ering a wide variety of entertainment, Kilroy said the high- light of the event is running into old friends. For many, Eureka Rendezvous Days is almost a community reunion, she said.
“It’s the one time of year where everyone comes out and you get to see people that you may not have seen in years,” she said. “It’s a wonderful event.”
For more information visit www. eurekarendezvousdays.com.
jfranz@ atheadbeacon.com
Stunning orchestral works by Borodin and Ravel and a master- ful musician and composer, Rob- ert deMaine, principle cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will highlight the season nale concert of the Glacier Symphony and Chorale. The concerts will be held on Saturday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 1, at 3 p.m. at Flathead High Perfor- mance Hall in Kalispell.
John Zoltek, GSC music
director, has programmed an
exciting repertoire of music ranging from Victor Herbert’s iconic Cello Concerto in E minor with featured artist deMaine, mixed with the sub- lime Daphne and Chloe Suites, excerpted from Maurice Ravel’s famous ballet, culminating in a rousing nish featuring the full Glacier Sym- phony and Chorale in Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, from Alex- ander Borodin’s opera.
Tickets for both concerts can be purchased at the GSC Box O ce, 407-7000 or online at www.gscmusic.org. All youth through grade 12 are admitted free to the concerts when accompanied by an adult.
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