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Show Summerfest set for Aug. 9-10 Summertime in Bountiful means Summerfest. This year, Summerfest International 1991 will take place on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9-10, on the Bountiful Tabernacle and Stoker School Grounds. The festival fes-tival is open to the public, free of charge, 10 a m. -9 p.m. and promises prom-ises to be bigger and better than before. A wide variety of visual arts and crafts will be offered for sale at 75-80 75-80 artists' booths, along with a Children's Art Yard offering many artistic activities for kids. The featured performing artists will be folkdancers and musicians in colorful native costumes, representing repre-senting 13 countries including Argentina, Brazil, China, France, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ita-ly, Mexico, Philippines, Switzerland and the United States. At the festival, each group will dance for half an hour both days. Tickets will be sold for evening, indoor in-door performances to be given by all the groups on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The dancers will be accompanied by musicians playing on traditional instruments. The musicians will also give their own performances. Approximately 500 performers will be coming from around the world to stay in area homes during that week. There will be a parade and receptions to honor them. Craftsmen from several countries 4 will demonstrate traditional crafts from their country during the festival. fes-tival. In keeping with the international flavor of the festival, there will be 10 or more ethnic food booths selling sell-ing taste foods from near and far. A festival spokesperson said, "Based on the response of last year's audiences to the foreign dancers, we are encouraged and pleased to present these exciting and talented international performers. per-formers. This will be a grand opportunity oppor-tunity for people along the Wasatch Front to be exposed to many interesting inter-esting cultures and entertainment from other lands." Watch for further information in the Clipper each week until the festival. |