Silver Dollar City - 2008 Festivals & Calendars
Check out Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri's
festivals and calendar schedule
if you are planning a weekend getaway, spring
break, or your summer, fall or winter family vacation for daily hours of
operation, special events, family festivals and important days.
Silver Dollar City is one of
the most popular vacation destinations in the country. Travel back in time to
the simplicity of 1880s America, and enjoy the best in Branson entertainment.
At Silver Dollar City, you'll discover the best Branson shows,
attractions, and entertainment including:
- 6 World Class Festivals
April thru December: World Fest, Bluegrass & BBQ, Kid's Fest, Southern Gospel
Picnic, National Harvest Festival, and An Old Time Christmas.
- 30 thrilling attractions and rides.
Tucked into the hillsides at Silver Dollar City are adventures beyond your
imagination!
-
 60 unique craft shops.
Meet over 100 demonstrating craftsmen whose skills have been passed down
from generations.
- Branson Craftsmen demonstrating skills in pioneer crafts.
Dedicated artisans creating heirloom keepsakes right before your very eyes
- Live entertainment featuring more than 40 shows daily.
You'll find toe tapping harmonies, hilarious comedy and traditional
favorites!
- The Celebration of An Old Time Christmas!
one of the nation's most acclaimed holiday events: Over 4 million lights, shows,
carolers, craftsmen, rides - memories that will last a lifetime
- A dozen family friendly restaurants offering breakfast, lunch, and
dinner.
Home-style recipes with buffet feasts and walk-away treats to satisfy every
appetite.
A Great Branson Vacation begins at
Silver Dollar City theme park!
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Silver Dollar City's 2008
Operating Days and Hours
Festivals are listed below the calendar. |
| NOTE: Performers, dates, and festival elements
subject to change without notice. |
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World-Fest
April 3 - May 4, 2008Bluegrasss & BBQ Festival
May 10 - June 1, 2008
National Kids Fest
June 7 - Aug 10, 2008
Southern Gospel Picnic
Aug 28 - Sept 7, 2008 |
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National Harvest Festival
Sept 11 - Oct 25, 2008National Harvest Festival
Sept 11 - Oct 25, 2008
An Old Time Christmas
Nov 1 - Dec 30, 2008
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Silver
Dollar City's 2008 Festival
Schedule
April 3 - May 4, 2008: World-Fest - America's Largest International
Festival!
  Each
spring the proud citizens of Silver Dollar City welcome international performers
from around the world to share their stories and trade traditions with our
guests visiting Ozark Mountain Country. It's a celebration of harmony and
goodwill where smiles resonate across oceans, laughter resounds throughout
cultures, dance links all people and music is the universal language!
Ireland's Feet of Fire! is an elaborate new stage show features live
Irish
 music,
champion step dancers and symbolic fire dancing from the Emerald Isle. Plus, see
the NEW Watoto Children's Choir from Uganda, Zunyi Acrobats of China
and much more! See these exciting shows plus many others including: Steel
Drums
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Trinidad, Ecuador Manta, Russian Academic Band, Scotland's Beggar's Row Band,
Noticky, Czech Republic Children's Folk Troupe, and many more!
Come hungry to the Frisco Barn for a taste of continental cuisine! Try
international specialties including guest favorites as well as new
taste-tempting dishes and desserts from around the world.
May 10 - June 1, 2008: Bluegrass and BBQ Festival
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this 23 day event you will see 3-time Grammy Award-winning artists the Nitty
Gritty Dirt Band in a special concert on May 30! Plus, 6-time IBMA Female
Vocalist of the Year Rhonda Vincent comes home to Silver Dollar City May 11-13, IBMA Entertainers of the Year The Grascals return May 25-29,
and 2006 Grammy Nominee Cherry Holmes will perform May 26-28.
The 2nd Annual Single Mic Championship will be held May 17 & 18. Watch
amateurs and professionals dual for top honors in this exciting musical style.
Back by popular demand, the Youth In Bluegrass Band Contest will be held
May 24 & 25. See tomorrows top stars storm the stage with tight, family-style
harmonies.
Savor the aromas and flavors of an all-American favorite at The House of
BBQ! Try the nation's most popular flavors from Memphis dry rubs and sweet
and tangy Carolina vinegars to smoky Texas-style tastes and the Midwest's own
Kansas City-style.
June 7 - August 10, 2008: National Kids Fest
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child dreams of a special place where playtime and fun never end. Every parent
wishes for a place where families can share in creating lifetime memories.
That's exactly what you'll find during the National Kids Fest!
Mast magician & illusionist Peter Gossamer presents mystifying tests
of mind over matter with baffling vanishings, mind-boggling levitations and
spellbinding feats that will leave you in awe! Circus of the Century -
the greatest show on ice delivers never-before-seen acts combining all the fun
of the circus with the beauty and grace of precision ice skating.
 Veggie
Tales® Presents: The Invention of Silliness! Tune in with Bob the Tomato and
Larry the Cucumber in this zany show. The folks from Kid Concoctions™
return with a new and expanded activities area and the Interactive Barn!
Championship Clogging features young award-winning, competition dance teams
from around the nation sharing the tradition of folk dance in America.
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this, plus over 30 other rides and attractions including The Giant Swing,
10 family rides at The Grand Exposition, the high-speed, multi-looping
WildFire®, the corkscrew curves of Thunderation, the white river rapids of The
Lost River of the Ozarks and PowderKeg® - launching from zero to breathless in
2.8 seconds! Smaller-scale rides are found in Tom Sawyer's Landing, a
multi-level play area, and interactive adventure awaits at the World's Largest
Treehouse at Geyser Gulch and Splash Harbor.
August 28 - September 7, 2008: Southern Gospel Picnic
  Join
Us For America's Biggest Southern Gospel Picnic! Southern gospel music
has always resounded through these Ozark hills, from country churches and county
fairs to porch-side pickin' sessions and Sunday services. Hear that vibrant
music again during Silver Dollar City's Southern Gospel Picnic!
See hundreds of performances from the top names in southern gospel music
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The Isaacs, Jeff & Sheri Easter, Karen Peck & New River, The
Martins and more!
Savor southern cooking at its best as the House of Chicken & Fixin's and
The Picnic Wagon return for this 11 day event. Continue to watch the website
for a schedule of performers.
September 11 - October 25, 2008: National Harvest Festival
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a new name, but the same great festival with two events in one!
The Home of American Craftsmanship, Silver Dollar City welcomes over 100
visiting craftsmen, over 400 of the nation's finest musicians, and back by
popular demand our signature stage show, Headin' West, during the
National
 Harvest
Festival!
Round up your crew during the month of September for our Salute to the
Great American Cowboy! See the nine-time Grammy winning kings of Texas swing
- "Asleep at the Wheel" in concert September 20, plus your favorite
cowboy celebrities and more.
Come back in October for our All-NEW Salute to the All-American Farmer! See
legendary country singer and nine-time Farm Aid performer - John Conlee
in concert October 11, plus much more!
November 1 - December 30, 2008: An Old Time
Christmas
  Experience
the magic of Christmas like never before when you visit this holiday season!
Through the festival, the entire park is transformed into a breathtaking holiday
Wonderland with millions of lights and festive decorations! Silver
Dollar City presents the Dickens Christmas Carol, complete with flying
spirits, disappearing ghosts and singing statues
 surprises its audience with
amazing special effects. You will be transported to Dickens' London where
through humor an inspiration, this familiar story will warm your hearts in a
brand new way.
That jolly, happy soul,
Frosty The Snowman is coming to town! See him come to life in a self-titled
All-NEW Show for the entire family.
 Take
yourself to the little town of Bethlehem in The Living Nativity, where
the real reason for this season is revealed in a celebration of the birth of
Jesus Christ.
Santa's Sleigh joins the acclaimed Holiday Light Parade, with a
reindeer in the lead and Santa at the reins. Santa's gigantic toy sack spills
the Gifts of Christmas out the back, as the entire float glows with over 3,000
lights. The popular parade of colorful floats, emblazoned in over 80,000 lights,
glide through the streets of the City twice each evening.
During
the Tree Lighting Celebration, the entire City is transformed into a
holiday wonderland as each evening at 5:30 p.m. as guests join together on the
Square for the lighting of the dazzling, 7-story Special Effects
 Christmas
Tree. With over
450,000 lights adorning the surrounding buildings and trees and
coordinated to blaze to the musical
movements of Christmas songs, this unique Christmas Tree
presents classics such as "Carol of the Bells" and Handel’s "Hallelujah Chorus"
in a spectacular light and sound show.
Rides & Attractions open during our festival include The Giant
Swing, The Giant Swing High-Low, PowderKeg®, Skychase Balloon Ride, Thunderation,
WildFire®, The Grand Exposition, Electro Spin, Elephant March, Grand Exposition,
Coaster, Happy Frogs, Magnificent Wave Carousel, Mighty Galleon, Racing Regatta,
Royal Tea Party, The Ladybugs and Wings of Wonder. (All Rides and attractions are operable weather permitting.
Temperature must be 38 degrees or above for Wildfire and Thunderation to
operate.)
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