PAGE 14 THE DALLAS POST Sunday, September 11, 2011 VAL Vamped up entertainment schedule pleases all 9 ] | From karate demos to children’s theater group, there's something for all. | | | By SARAH HITE shite@mydallaspost.com Two stages mean double the entertainment at this year’s Dallas Harvest Festival which | kicks off at noon on Sunday, | | Sept. 18. ' | First-time solo entertain- | ment committee chairperson | \ Gina Major Ackerman has booked nearly two dozen local acts, from karate demos to a children’s theater group, to keep adults and youngsters smiling all afternoon. “This year we wanted to vamp up the entertainment and take everything up a notch,” | said Major Ackerman. She said this year two acts are sure to . |! With all this great bring a entertainment, crowd to Maior Ack the ninth 3JOr Ackerman “i: annualfes- said there is still a tival: Da- need for volun- mian the teers to help keep Magitat) the acts on both kids, and stages running former smoothly. Contact WNEP-16 | the Dallas Bor- broadcast- BILL TARUTIS FILE PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST . er and folk Changing Habits, a musical outreach ministry from Gate of Heaven Church in Dallas, performs at the 2010 Dallas Harvest Festival. | ough offices at musician | 675-1389 to see Mike Le- | how you can help, Wis for the adults. Both acts will | : close out the festival on two different stages: Damian on the Frontier Community Stage, located at | the Dallas Hardware Centre | 4 parking lot, and Lewis on the Lewith and Freeman main stage at the end of Main Street. i Major Ackerman said her fo- cus this year was on keeping | similar styles of entertainment “blocked” together to make it easier for families to plan their perusal of the grounds. “The entire main stage enter- tainment schedule will be post- ed at the community stage. The } community stage schedule will be posted at the main stage and both schedules will be posted . around the festival grounds,” i she said. “I think the better you plan, the more families can get : | around to everything.” Fitness instructor Terri Besecker, of Shapes Total Fitness, dem- | Other acts include a multi- onstrates body pumping at the 2010 Dallas Harvest Festival. tude of local youth dancers from Take the Stage Dance Stu- Kennedy Wood, 5, of Trucksville, right, and Brooke Piscotty, 5, of Hanover Township, wait to perform . dio in Trucksville, the Back on stage at the 2010 Dallas Harvest Festival. Mountain Dance Studio in Dal- las, the David Blight School of Dance in Wilkes-Barre and Pitt- ston and the Dallas High "This year we wanted to vamp up the entertainment and take everything up a School Junior Varsity Cheer Festival-goers can watch pro- Gina Major Ackerman . fessional groups, such as the Dallas Harvest Festival Emerald Isle Step Dancers and Entertainment Committee Chairperson Misericordia University dance instructors Raphael and Lauren Cooper, during the event, too. “When you notch up the en- tertainment level, my feeling was let’s not only notch up main | stage, do a great job of it, but also get great acts for the sec- | | ond stage,” said Major Acker- man. ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE ‘ ‘ Lewith and Freeman Main Stage Six local singers and musical Emcee: Carol Sweeney L groups will also grace the stage Noon - Festival opening with the National Anthem sung by Bryn Harvey Sam Ayling, of Mountain Top, performs on stage at the 2010 Dal- during the event, including the 1245 pm. - Step by Step Praise Band from the Shavertown United Methodist Church las Harvest Festival. Step by Step Praise Band from 12:55 p.m. - Dallas High School Junior Varsity Cheer Team the Shavertown United Metho- 1p.m. - Take the Stage Dance Studio performers dist Church, Christian pop 1:30 p.m. - Back Mountain Dance Studio performers singer Caroline H. Thomas and 2 p.m. - Best of Open Mic Winners vocalists from the Major Per- 2:30 p.m. - David Blight School of Dance performers forming Arts Center. 3 p.m. - Emerald Isle Step Dancers Other fim acts include dem- Son i biel a winner announced onstrations by the PawsAbili- , 5+ ‘°% : ties 4-H Seeing Eve Dogs and 4:20 p.m. - Major Performing Arts vocalists the United Fighting Arts Asso- 5 p.m. - Mike Lewis ciation and a performance of Frontier Community Stage the fairytale “Rapunzel” from Emcee: Jennifer Rogers the Northeast Youth Theatre Noon - PawsAbilities 4-H Seeing Eye dogs sponsored by Hildebrandt 12:30 p.m. - Damian the Magician, sponsored by Salon Nouveau Learning Centers. 1:20 p.m. - Northeast Youth Theatre's “Rapunzel,” sponsored by Hildebrandt Learning Cen- One favorite of the festival is 191s Latin 4 ZUmba d Tne os Bal d Changi i 15 p.m. - Latin dance and Zumba demonstration by Cooper's Ballroom dancers SingHabiis, alocal group 2:45 p.m. - Caroline H. Thomas, teen recording artist 3:15 p.m. - Twice Blessed, music of the 60's and 70's 4 p.m. - At Home, contemporary music 4:45 p.m. - Unified Fighting Arts Association demonstration a of women who perform songs . from the film “Sister Act” to raise money for Gate of Heaven Church in Dallas. : 5:15 p.m. - Damian the Magician, sponsored by CK's Summer Treats and More and Salon a “We try really hard to provide : Dallas Harvest Festival second-place Open Mic winner Noah Sun something for everybody,” said day-Lefkowitz, of Shavertown, performs Jim Brickman's 'Peace’ Major Ackerman. ; at the 2010 Dallas Harvest Festival. : q
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