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Welcome to the 3rd Annual

Clif ton GorgeMusic & Arts FestivalFriday, August 29th, 4–11 PM

Saturday, August 30th, 10 AM–11 PM

SPONSORED BY:

THE VILLAGE OF CLIFTON&

GREENE/SOIN HOSPITALS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Festival Entertainment Schedule 7-13

Clifton Chautauqua 15-17

Festival Vendors 19-23

The Clifton Opera House 25

Clifton Opera House Schedule 27-29

Special Thanks 30

Free festival parking is conveniently located at the Clifton Mill and the

Clifton Presbyterian Church

For more information look for us on-line at:www.villageofclifton.com

Or contact us at:Village of Clifton, P.O. Box 27,

Clifton, OH 45316Voicemail: (937)342-2175

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Entertainment

OngoingKids’ Activity Area.Bring home a hand-made craft or two. Earn a prize for enjoying yard games and other fun activities!

Ice Cream SocialCome to the Shoebox Theatre located inside the old Clifton School Building for an ice cream social. Donations will be accepted for the ice cream and home made desserts. Proceeds will benefit the Presbyterian Community Outreach.

Clifton Gorge InformationLook for the Clifton Gorge booth for information on this beautiful local attraction. While you are here take a short walk on the trail. Parking areas are located on Jackson Street (at the end of Water Street) and State Route 343 just west of the Village of Clifton.

• Face Painting• Crafts and Coloring• Lawn Bowling• Hula Hoops

• Putting Green• Contests• Jump Ropes• Bean Bags and more!

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Friday, August 29thVendors Open 4 PM

Beer Garden Opens 5 PMClifton’s Festival Beer Tent features craft brews and taster’s favorites as well as a wide selection of classic brand names. The tent is open as long as the music is playing, so come and kick back with a cold one, the entertainment’s on us. Bring your ID.

Izzi Hicks 4 PMIzzy is a singer/songwriter from Enon. She will perform modern country tunes on her guitar.

Alex Delange 5 PMA singer/song-writer from Cedarville, Alex will perform classic rock and folk music in a distinctive style that evokes Townes Van Zandt, Neil Young and Bob Dylan. His clear-as-a-bell voice inspires raw musical talent.

Public Announcement 6 PMThe Village is proud to announce the Ohio Chautauqua Tour is coming to Clifton in 2015. Join us at the steps of the Union Schoolhouse Building for a press briefing.

Out of Order 6:30 PMAlan Long, from Clifton and three band mates will entertain with classic rock favorites.

Soul Fire Tribe – Fire Dancers 8:30 PMSoul Fire Tribe is a fire dance performance group from Yellow Springs. The show is captivating and fun for all ages.

Rob Heiliger & Friends 9 PMClifton’s own Rob Heiliger is a Festival favorite. His music is influenced by Johnny Cash…and he sounds like him. He will invite some surprise guest performers for the Friday night headline set.

Entertainment (Contd.)

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Saturday, August 30thVendors Open 10 AM

Beer Garden Opens 11 AMClifton’s Festival Beer Tent features craft brews and taster’s favorites as well as a wide selection of classic brand names. The tent is open as long as the music is playing, so come and kick back with a cold one, the entertainment’s on us. Bring your ID

Eddie Gray 11 AMEddie plays acoustic guitar with a wide repertoire of songs.

Amethyst 1 PMBrian Ehlers leads this acoustic music group comprised of youngsters as they perform a foot-tapping, hand-clapping assortment of Gospel, classic and modern country, fiddle, and bluegrass music.

“Adopt a Healthy Duck” 2 PMCome to the Greene County Combined Health District booth to adopt a “Healthy Duck”. Then watch as they race down the mill race at the Historic Clifton Mill. Sponsors of the winning ducks will receive great prizes. Donations go to support the activities of the Health District.

Ballet Variety Show 2 PMThe Ohio Performing Arts Institute (OPAI) presents a Broadway style variety show including dancing and vocal selections. Based in Springfield, OPAI is a 501-C3 non-profit providing the highest quality arts education and performance opportunities to students of all ages in a positive atmosphere.

Ragtime Riverboat Rats 4 PMThe Ragtime Riverboat Rats date back to the early 1980s. They present a program reminiscent of the showboat era with good old ragtime music and a strong flavor of patriotism. They have created a versatile style and repertoire of Ragtime, Dixieland, Jazz, Golden Oldies and Original Songs.

Entertainment (Contd.)

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Saturday, August 30th (Continued)

Blue Moon Soup 5 PMThis four piece group will entertain with original music and Americana, Celtic, folk and bluegrass. The band features fiddle, guitar, mandolin and bass.

New Mountain Heritage Bluegrass 7 PMNew Mountain Heritage was formed with a group of veteran musicians, each with extensive personal musical background in bluegrass music. This variety of talent has formed a strong foundation for the music that they play today: a vast diversity of material from old standards to the modern sounds and old-time dance fiddle tunes.

Well Behaved Band 8 PMSinger/songwriter Erika Hughes and her band will perform original songs as well as folk and bluegrass accompanied by bass, electric guitar and drums.

The Hoppers 9 PMThis six-piece rock ‘n’ roll band from Yellow Springs will knock your socks off with high-energy renditions of your favorites from the ‘50s and ‘60s.

Entertainment (Contd.)

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O ne hundred and forty years ago, a gathering took place at the

waterfront of Lake Chautauqua in western New York. The organizers had planned training courses for Sunday school teachers to be held each summer. This became a learning center that soon grew to include lectures on political, theological, and social issues of the day. Courses were added on subjects such as literature and foreign languages. What had begun as something of an educational symposium became a mainstay event of culture and learning for the general public. From the beginning there was a focus on bringing intellectually enriching experiences to working-class Americans who had been generally excluded from high-minded activities of this sort. Luminaries such as Mark Twain, headlined the ever-popular events,

and many US presidents made regular appearances.

Communities across the Midwest began hosting “Circuit Chautau-quas,” as they were sometimes called, which brought culture and enter-tainment to these rural towns under a “big top” tent. The lectures and discussions on leading topics soon included Broadway performances and musical acts. The movement was considered to be a version of the urban art scene for people of small-town, rural America. By the turn of the century the Chautauqua tents drew hundreds of thousands of attendees across the country. President Theodore Roosevelt is said to have called the Chautauqua phe-nomenon “the most American thing in America.”

Nothing lasts forever, of course, and Chautauquas eventually fell out of favor and were replaced

Clifton ChautauquaThe Tradition of Reinvention

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by popular radio programs and television, and in a broader sense, the cultural shifts brought about by the rise of the automobile. Although the Chautauqua movement is regarded as a bygone chapter in our collective history, there has been a revitalized version of the traveling performances and educational workshops making their way into the fabric of everyday America again. The largest and perhaps most prestigious of these “new Chautauquas” is the Ohio Chautauqua, which is produced by the Ohio Humanities Council and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It celebrates its sixteenth year this summer with weeklong events being held in four communities across the state. Cities and towns are selected to host the event a year in advance and must submit to a rigorous application process in order to hold the coveted title of host community.

Enter Clifton, Ohio, which is proud to have been selected as one of the four host communities for the 2015 Ohio Chautauqua. The small village, straddling the Greene and Clark county line, and bordering the popular college towns of Cedarville and Yellow Springs, is a historic landmark in its own right, with one of the state’s most visited nature preserves and one of the largest water-powered grist

mills still in existence. However, Clifton is also a cultural crossroads, connecting our past to our future in unique and creative ways that set it apart from other villages of its size. For instance, the historic opera house, built in 1893, is today a vibrant music venue, featuring two live performances per week as well as seasonal theatrical productions. The Clifton Union Schoolhouse, a building constructed in 1872, has a newly renovated community theater space that is open to the public weekly and houses the second-floor private art studio of a world-renowned painter. A contemporary art gallery was recently opened in the historic town hall, which is now an active senior citizen center. The town also puts on an annual music and arts festival named after the ancient geological particularity, the Clifton Gorge.

It is in this spirit of preserving our rich historic character while finding new ways to revitalize our community’s landscape that Clifton embodies the importance of the arts and humanities in building a strong community and creating a dynamic future. It is the tradition of reinvention that is truly the most American thing in America.

Clifton Chautauqua (Contd.)

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VendorsVENDOR WARES

Rue Farms Take Home Baked Goods, Chips, Kettlecorn, etc.

Thomas Ireland Smith Farm

Ohio Maple Syrup and products

Tastefully Simple Food Products

North River Alpacas Alpaca Fiber Products

Rose-A-Lee Designs Handmade cloth products

Midwest Festival of Fibers Fiber arts – spinning, weaving, knitting, tatting

Montgomery-Greene Tatting Guild

Tatted products

Natures Canvas Photography

Canvas Photo Prints

Survive Or Knot Parachute Cord Crafts

Thirty-One Purses, Totes, Wallets, Thermals

Charles & Nancy Shoopman

Wooden Boxes, Puzzles, Ornaments, etc.

Little House Pottery Pottery, Wheel Throws & Slab Made Tiles & Items

Scentsy Fragrance Wax Fragrances, Warmers, etc.

Tupperware Tupperware Products

Pampered Chef Pampered Chef Products

Clarice Moore Children’s Book Author; Caricatures

Usborne Books & More Children’s Books

Silk Bloomers, Flowers & Crafts

Silk & organic floral arrangements & decorations

Jennifer Earley Handmade Jewelery,etc.; Treats and Dog Treats

Plant-a-Rock Art Rocks & Stones

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Vendors (Contd.)VENDOR WARES

Yellow Cat Spoon Jewelry Jewelry From Vintage Spoons & Forks

Oragami Owl Oragami Owl Jewelry Products

LW Todd Designs Tye Dye T-Shirts

Village of Clifton Artisans Local Art & Craft

Carroll Halliday Ford Auto Display; Bounce House

My Gorilla Garage Garage Floor Coating

Everdry Waterproofing Waterproofing Products

GutterShutter Company Maintenence-Free Gutters

Greene County Parks & Trails

Display & Literature

Greene County Health Dept

Duck Race Promotion

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Tue-Fri: 9am - 6pmSat: 9am - 1pm

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Riddle’s Ribs & BBQ Pulled Pork, BBQ Dinner, Pork Chops, Ribs, Chicken, Fish

Paul’s Potatoes Texas Tenderloin, Hot Dogs, Corn Dogs, Coneys, Chicken

Tenders, Funnel Fries, & French Fries

Bette Juanita’s Italian Sausage

Italian & Smoked Sausages, Philly Cheesesteak, & Chicken & Noodles

Bette Juanita’s Lemonade

Lemonade Stand

Lighthouse Church Steak Burgers, Grilled Chicken Sandwiches, French Fries,

Nachos & Chips

La Pampa Ltd Friday Only.

Grill Cart—Corn & Sausage Sandwiches

Bella Sorella PizzaSaturday Only

Brick Pizza Oven

FOOD VENDORS

Vendors (Contd.)

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• Medical services onsite – medical imaging (including CT and ultrasound), lab

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lifton Opera house is a beautifully preserved concert hall that was

built in 1893. Originally known as the town hall, it has been a venue for minstrel shows, medicine shows, school plays, church activities, style shows, dinners, dances, weddings, meetings, all variety of concerts, theatrical productions, and even basketball games. The tower was taken down in the 1920s and the building was not used for many years. Then, in 1978, part of the north wall fell in. Howard Printz, then President of the Clifton Historical

Society, began raising funds to save the historic building. Thanks to his dedicated work and the generosity of the donors who cared so much for the Opera House, it is restored and continues to be a valuable part of the Clifton community. The Opera House is owned by the Village and managed with the help of Brian Ehlers, the Opera House Event Coordinator.

See our upcoming shows listed in the summer/fall event schedule (pp. 27–29). The Opera House can also be rented for private events. For more information call (937) 342-2175.

The Clifton Opera House5 South Clay Street, Clifton OH

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Clifton Gorge Blend Coffee is for sale at the Village concessions kitchen during the Festival. The proprietary blend is also available at the Clifton Opera House during all regular season shows.

Check us out on the web for more information, including other Stoney Creek blends, organic & fair trade coffees, single origin selections, flavors, and more.

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The Clifton Opera HouseSUMMER & FALL SCHEDULE

All shows start at 7:30 PM unless otherwise noted. Suggested admission for most shows is $7.

JULY

Saturday, July 5 Mama’s Wranglers (Classic Country/Bluegrass)

Friday, July 11 Vintage Voices & Fairborn Barbershop Society

Saturday, July 12 Kettering Banjo Society

Friday, July 18 Amethyst (Classic Country)

Saturday, July 19 Corky’s Old Time Rock & Roll

Friday, July 25 Tipp City Community Band

Saturday, July 26 Lonesome Meadow (Bluegrass)

AUGUST

Friday, August 1 North & South (Bluegrass)

Saturday, August 2 For What It’s Worth (Classic Rock)

Friday, August 8 Out of Order (Classic Rock)

Friday, August 15 Curious Sounds (Americana)

Saturday, August 16 Dayton Letter Carriers (Big Band)

Friday, August 22 Lower London Street Band (Dixieland)

Saturday, August 23 Ragtime Riverboat Rats

Friday, August 29 & Saturday, August 30 Clifton Gorge Music & Arts Festival

SEPTEMBER

Friday, September 5 Beeswing (Celtic)

Saturday, September 6 Sauerkraut German Band

Friday, September 12 Evan Lanier & The Bluegrass Express

Saturday, September 13 Out of Order (Classic Rock)

Friday, September 19 Corn Drinkers (Bluegrass)

Saturday, September 20 Corky’s Old Time Rock & Roll

OCTOBER

Saturday, October 4 Sugargrove (Bluegrass)

Saturday, October 11 Kettering Banjo Society

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The backdrop of the Opera House stage, painted by local artist Sharon Benedict, depicts several Clifton landmarks.

The Clifton Opera House currently hosts year-round entertainment of all types and genres.

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Friday, November 14 Cross Country (Gospel, Classic Country, Bluegrass)

Saturday, November 15 Lonesome Meadow (Bluegrass)

Friday, November 21 Shakertown Stompers (Dixieland)

Saturday, November 22 Ragtime Riverboat Rats

Friday, November 28 Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers ($12)

Please visit the Clifton Opera House website for changes and additional shows at cliftonoperahouse.com

OCTOBER (Contd.)

Friday, October 17 Out of Order (Rock & Roll)

Saturday, October 18 The Grace Brothers (Gospel/Bluegrass)

Friday, October 24 Evan Lanier & The Bluegrass Express

Saturday, October 25 Cedarville University Jazz Band

NOVEMBER

Saturday, November 1 Blue Moon Soup (Bluegrass, Americana/Celtic/Folk)

Friday, November 7 Evan Lanier & The Bluegrass Express

Saturday, November 8 New Mountain Heritage (Bluegrass)

The Clifton Opera HouseSUMMER & FALL SCHEDULE (Contd.)

All shows start at 7:30 PM unless otherwise noted

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SPECIAL THANKSto those who who turned the idea of a vibrant

music and arts festival into a reality.

Carroll Halliday

Clifton Village Council & Special Projects Committee

Brian Ehlers

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