What’s Happening at the Ozark Folk Center April 1-6 – Don’t Miss Out on this Awesome Place in the Ozarks!

by | Mar 31, 2015 | Travel Tips

Tuesday – March 31, 2015

Craft Village Opens This Wednesday
Spring in the Ozark brings beautiful flowers, flowing rivers and the opening of the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Starting April 1, the Craft Village, the Homespun Gift Shop and the General Store are open for the 2015 season. The Village is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Visit with more than 20 crafts people as they create pottery, knives, quilts, blackpowder rifles, jewelry, brooms, baskets and so much more.

Local bands perform music in the Picnic Pavilion six times a day. There’s room to dance or just sit and tap your feet. The noon program on the Bessie Moore deck offers a chance to look at Ozark culture and lifestyles from differing points of view.

Regular admission to the Craft Village is $12 for adults and $7 for children 6 to 12. Children under 6 are free. A season pass is just $75 for adults and $35 for children. This pass gives you admission to the Village and evening concerts, (excluding Celebrity Concerts), including the more than 25 featured concerts, new this year.

The mission of Ozark Folk Center State Park is to perpetuate, present and promote the Ozark way of life in an educational and enjoyable manner; through craft demonstrations, musical programs, the Heritage Herb Garden, workshops and other special events.

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Storyteller Doug Elliot Featured at Medicinal Herb Seminar
Known for his “Woodslore and Wildwoods Wisdom,” storyteller Doug Elliott has entertained folks young and old with his stories, songs, and lore celebrating the natural world. Whether he’s singing about catfish; pontificating on possums; extolling the virtues of dandelions; cawing with crows; pondering the “nature” in human nature; telling wild snake tales; or wailing out a jivey harmonica tune, Doug Elliott will take you on an unforgettable, multifaceted cultural tour celebrating North America’s back country.

Elliot will perform during this week’s Medicinal Herb Seminar, along with other well known herbalists, naturalists and field biologists, Bo Brown, Sasha Daucus, John Micheal Kelly, Susan Belsinger and Tina Marie Wilcox. Register to join us for two days of amazing tales, lively tunes, traditional lore, outrageous personal narratives, and fact stranger than fiction—all flavored with regional dialects, soulful harmonica riffs, and more than a few belly laughs.
  • Registration fee for the whole two day workshop, including the Herbal Field Trip $120
  • Friday only, $75
  • Saturday only, $75
  • Saturday Lunch only, $25

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Volunteers Brave Blustery Weather on Cleanup Day
Despite intermittent snow flurries and temperatures edging below freezing, more than fifteen intrepid volunteers braved the weather and turned out to help wash windows and signs throughout the Craft Village; clean and refresh interpretive displays; straighten gardens and sweep out cabins.

After a couple hours work, everyone came in to the warm Administration Building to share a delicious potluck lunch and animated conversation about the upcoming opening week.
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New Featured Concert Series Included in Price of Season Pass

New this season at the Ozark Folk Center State Park is our Feature Concert Series. Twenty-two Feature Concerts will be held throughout the season showcasing performers including Still on the Hill; Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu; Macolm Holcombe; Dale Jett and Hello Stranger; Willie Watson (Formerly of Old Crow Medicine Show) and many more. Some of the musicians will have afternoon performances in the Craft Village, in addition to being featured on the evening show.
Admission to the Feature Concert Series is including in the season pass. A season pass to the Ozark Folk Center State Park is only $75 for adults and $35 for children 6-12. Children under 6 are free.
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Performing this Week

Craft Village – Open 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday- Saturday starting April 1. Admission $12.00 for adults and $7.00 for children 6-12, children under 6 are free. Family pass is $29.50. A season pass includes both Crafts and Music $75 for adults and $35 for children 6-12
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Skillet Restaurant  – Open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. – good old southern country cooking
Homespun Gift Shop Open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – featuring items from Arkansas crafters
Cabins at Dry Creek Open daily & year-around for comfortable, quiet lodging
Loco Ropes Highline Adventure open 7-days a week, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Noon program on the Bessie Moore Deck next to the School House
Daytime Musicians are located on the Picnic Pavilion except as noted 10:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1:45 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 3:45 p.m.
Tuesday, March 31, closed

Wednesday, April 1

Noon Program –  Jeanette Larson – Spinning Tales

Daytime Musicians – Whoa Mule! in the White Oak Auditorium in the Administration Building

Evening Concert – (evening concerts start on April 17, 2015)

Thursday, April 2
Noon Program – Shawn Hoefer – Smitty the Cowboy Poet
Daytime Musicians – Glover Family

Evening Concert – (evening concerts start on April 17, 2015)
Friday, April 3

Noon Program – Jeanette Larson – Spinning Tales
Daytime Musicians – Nathan Cobb & Friends

Saturday, April 4
Noon Program –   Jeanette Larson – Spinning Tales
Daytime Musician – 5 South

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