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Summer Fun at Prescott’s Sharlot Hall Museum
Plan now to attend the 19th annual Prescott Indian Art Market July 9 and 10 at Sharlot Hall Museum.
The museum’s garden area will be the host to this Indian-art show featuring exquisite carvings, ceramics, sculpture, paintings, hand-woven baskets, blankets, and distinctive jewelry.
Artists producing traditional and contemporary artwork are juried by distinguished American Indian artists.
Plan to walk among demonstrators as they carve Katsina dolls, hammer silver, and weave baskets and rugs. Native American dancers, singers and musicians will provide entertainment provided throughout the weekend in the outdoor amphitheater.
The Prescott Indian Art Market is one of the Southwest’s premier Indian-art Markets.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $10 for the general public and $8 for museum members. Those 17 and younger are free.
Sharlot Hall Museum is located in the heart of downtown Prescott, two blocks west of the Courthouse Plaza at 415 W. Gurley St. For information, visit www.sharlot.org.
Of course you can visit Sharlot Hall Museum throughout the year for an educational and cultural experience. The museum focuses on the appreciation of historical, social, and natural aspects of Arizona.
The museum is named after Sharlot Mabridth Hall, a self-educated and highly literate child of the frontier. Born October 27,1870, she traveled with her family from Kansas to the Arizona Territory in 1882. Her impressions of this journey remained with her all of her life. She loved ideas and the written arts and expressed her fascination with Arizona frontier life through prose and poetry.
In 1909, Sharlot was appointed Territorial Historian and became the first woman to hold territorial office. At about this time she was also very active in the national political arena, first as a lobbyist and later as a presidential elector. In 1927, Sharlot agreed to move her extensive collection of artifacts and documents into the Old Governor’s Mansion and open it as a museum.
Her diligent efforts inspired others to contribute to the preservation of early Arizona history. After her death on April 9, 1943 a historical society continued her efforts to build the complex that bears her name. In 1981 Miss Hall became one of the first women elected to the Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame.
The Prescott Bluegrass Festival
The Prescott Bluegrass Festival is Approaching Fast
Celebrating its 35th year, the Prescott Bluegrass Festival is set for June 25 and 26.
What started as a fiddle contest dedicated to a local fiddler, took on the form of a traditional bluegrass festival in the mid-1980s. It remains the only free bluegrass festival of its kind in Arizona.
The headliner for the year is Bluegrass Etc. The group is internationally known and tours around the globe. Bluegrass Etc. consists of John Moore on the mandolin, guitar and vocals; Dennis Caplinger who play banjo, fiddle and does vocals; and Bill Bryson on bass and vocals. The band has its roots in bluegrass music, but has evolved over the years into a more dynamic and eclectic acoustic band.
Other performers of the festival include Burning Heart Bluegrass, known for their high-powered vocals and soaring harmonies, they take their repertoire from old and new classics.
Also playing will be James Reams and the Barnstormers, performing their contemporary take on traditional bluegrass. The Old Blue Band will also be performing bluegrass the old fashioned way. They’re focused on bluegrass founders and are dedicated to the preservation of bluegrass music.
The Ping Brothers, consisting of Frank and Doug, grew up on a farm in the hills of Kentucky where their mother taught them their first chords on a guitar. They learned to play at a young age and have performed all over the country.
A schedule of events can be found HERE.
Like so many other festivals in Prescott, this one will be held in the Courthouse Plaza. The Bluegrass Festival stage will be located on Goodwin St. along the south side of the plaza. The festival is free and food and beverages will be on sale at the show.
Bring a picnic and your dog if you like, but alcohol is not allowed. Raffle drawings will also be held for several great prizes and you don’t need to be present to win.
Whiskey Off Road
Join Epic Rides and the City of Prescott as we present a tide raising event for the American mountain bike scene April 29 – May 1, 2016.
With over a dozen years of runway behind us and a sole focus in developing the ultimate mountain bike event weekend while priming the bar taps on Whiskey Row, Epic Rides, the City of Prescott and the Prescott National Forest cooperatively host an annual 3 day celebration during the final weekend of April each year.
