Show Performers to display IDi w talents at quarry The second in a series of programs sponsored by the Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Commission willbe will willbe willbe be held at the Dinosaur National Park August 7 78 SATURDAY at 9 pm p.m. at t the Split Mountain campground amphitheatre Mark Nelson will perform several musical selections Mr Nelson is a performer of traditional American music of rural people time old-time square dance tunes play party songs dar dance tunes tunes' from Ireland d and andA A Anglo American gl in ri ait li ballads Il ds For Forthe Forthe Forthe the past three years he was been living performing and collecting folk music in Utah He noted that the States State's unique history has given rise to a most unusual musical tradition combining elements of American string band music with older English and Irish styles as well as songs growing out of the Mormon colonization In Utah folk music has never been lost to be later rediscovered by academic folklorists Many of the songs are a living part of a thriving oral culture and the fireside is ismy ismy ismy my stage for the parks festival he noted Sunday Mr Mr- Nelson will perform at 8 pm p.m. at the Green River Campground TilE THE AMERICAN Pl Players will perform Sunday at 11 am at the Dinosaur Quarry building I The players are committed to to performing th the best best in American theater They bring g Echoes to Utah's parks echoes of our past of the ideas f ideals ide-als and individuals that have guided us on our road of years of freedom Appearances of American heroes such as Teddy Roosevelt Thomas Edison Sojourner Truth Benjamin Franklin Eleanor Roosevelt and Abigail Adams will enliven the Dinosaur National Park Park amphitheatre The next Bicentennial Festival in inthe the parks is slated for August 21 2122 There is no charge for the performances |