| Fri April 26 6:30pm-11pm El Camino Real Music Festival Sat April 27 10am-6pm * Festivities * Music, Vendors, & Entertainment * Historic Downtown * FREE Admission Sun April 28th 10am-1pm * Cowboy Breakfast (Tickets $15/$20 at door) Presented by the Bastrop Opera House & The Downtown Business Alliance. (DBA) |
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| Learn all about how to shoe a horse, tan a hide, spin wool, and do an Indian dance at Bastrop’s 25th annual Yesterfest Weekend Celebration April 26-28. Musical entertainment, historic reenactments, staged gunfights, cowboy demonstrations, Native American ceremonial dances, and a great children’s interactive area highlight the event that gives everyone the opportunity to experience the Old West. The three day event includes great food like homemade beef stew, beans and biscuits cooked on the campfire close to a chuck wagon, and demonstrations of cast iron cooking. Local downtown restaurants are all open among the five block street market area also featuring more than 100 street vendors. Be sure and visit the “pioneer village” for demonstrations highlighting pioneer activities like spinning, basket weaving, broom making, quilting, wood carving, iron smithing and costumed reenactors! On Friday night from 6:30 to 11 pm the El Camino Real Music Festival, an open air production on Main Street, features the music of Son de Rey, Polvo del Norte and Banda Matizz for a popular street dance. Saturday brings more music of all kinds including country & western, folk, gospel, Celtic, German polka, bluegrass and jazz on two stages on Main Street, and features sets by Tish Hinojosa and local favorites The Peterson Brothers. Don't forget to stop by 921 Main Street to experience the Western Heritage area, featuring the Jacob Family Native American Dance Troupe, the Buffalo Soldier Camp, the chuck wagon cattle-drive display and the Spoiled Doves Of Texas Dance Hall Girls will be setting up an old time photo area! A special children’s venue planned and operated in partnership with the local YMCA will include a cow milking demo, Ms. Poppy the Clown, and Magical Mystical Michael, among others, and will feature many interactive activities for the kiddos. Don’t miss the quilt display at the Bastrop County Historical Society’s new Museum and Visitor Center at 904 Main Street, and the Bastrop Opera House, built in 1889 and in continuous operation since, will have the Clickety Cloggers performing on Saturday. Visit www.bastropoperahouse.com for information on Saturday night’s featured play performance at the Performing Arts Center in Bastrop. Saturday evening music culminates in a concert by Billy Joe Shaver, a ticketed event at the Bastrop Brewhouse stage set against the backdrop of the Colorado River. For tickets and more information click HERE. Sunday morning a Cowboy Breakfast will feature music by Dunn Deal at 921 Main Street. Breakfast tickets are $15 online and at the DBA Information booth Saturday. Tickets will be $20 the day of the event. Proceeds from the breakfast will be going to the Bastrop Downtown Business Alliance to help fund downtown events throughout the year. The Bastrop Downtown Business Alliance and the Bastrop Opera House, sponsors of the annual Yesterfest event, invite everyone to dress in their Pioneer best and join in the fun starting Friday, April 26 from 6:30 to 11 pm with the El Camino Real Music Festival, Saturday, April 27 from 10 am to 6 pm for the street fair and Sunday, April 28 from 10 am to 1 pm for the Cowboy Breakfast, all in historic downtown Bastrop. |
