{"id":29970,"date":"2012-08-09T20:49:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=29970"},"modified":"2012-08-09T20:49:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T00:49:13","slug":"mint-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/mint-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12july\/grooveth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/>A Big Part of Mint Festival Weekend, August 10 &#8211; 12<!--more--><br \/>\nWith so much to do at the Annual Mint Festival, some people forget to just bring their lawn chair and spend some leisurely time listening to and watching the free entertainment.<br \/>\nThings kick off on Friday, August 10 with some entertainers specifically for Senior Citizen Day.<br \/>\nThen Taylor Fernandez takes the stage at 5:45 pm. You may remember Taylor as the Clinton County Idol in 2009. The headline entertainment for Friday is Capital City Groove. Their performance starts at 7:00 pm at the Performance Shell in the City Park. Their group performs a wide variety of music with three lead singers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12july\/toppermost.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThroughout the day on Saturday there is everything from country to dance groups, with the headline entertainment at 7:00 pm with Toppermost, Michigan&#8217;s most popular Beatles Tribute Band. Then on Sunday there is some contemporary Christian music, along with the Children&#8217;s Ballet Theatre.<br \/>\nTwo special daytime concerts have been added this year featuring The Clarksons on Saturday from 1-3 pm and then Louie Longoria on Sunday from 2-4 pm. Both of these performances will be at the Band Shell. The full schedule of performers follows:<br \/>\n<strong>Friday, August 10<\/strong><br \/>\nMain Pavilion Stage<br \/>\n2:00 &#8211; 2:45 pm Deanna Nelson<br \/>\n4:15 pm &#8211; 5:00 pm Olde Thyme Harmony Quartet<br \/>\n5:45 &#8211; 6:45 pm Taylor Fernandez<br \/>\nPerformance Shell<br \/>\n7:00 &#8211; 9:30 pm Capital City Groove<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12july\/groove.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday, August 11<\/strong><br \/>\nMain Pavilion Stage<br \/>\n5:15 &#8211; 6:00 pm Whiskey Diski and the Barrel Boys<br \/>\n6:15 &#8211; 7:00 pm Whiskey Diski and the Barrel Boys<br \/>\nPerformance Shell<br \/>\n1:00 &#8211; 3:00 pm The Clarksons<br \/>\n3:30 &#8211; 4:30 pm Mint City Singers<br \/>\n7:00 &#8211; 10:00 pm Toppermost, Beatles Tribute Band<br \/>\nCounty Grounds<br \/>\n1:00 &#8211; 2:00 pm Children&#8217;s Ballet Theatre<br \/>\n4:00 &#8211; 5:00 pm The Dance Works of Michigan, LLC<br \/>\nPavilion 2<br \/>\n2:00 &#8211; 3:00 pm A Step In Time Dance and Karate<br \/>\n<strong>Sunday, August 12<\/strong><br \/>\nMain Pavilion<br \/>\n11:30 &#8211; 12:15 Christopher Hale<br \/>\n1:15 &#8211; 2:00 Christopher Hale<br \/>\nPerformance Shell<br \/>\n2:00 &#8211; 4:00 Louie Longoria<br \/>\nCounty Grounds<br \/>\n1:00 &#8211; 2:00 pm Children&#8217;s Ballet Theatre<br \/>\nFor more information about the weekend entertainment or any other part of the festival contact the Chamber of Commerce at 989-224-7248 or <a href=\"mailto:ccchamber@power-net.net\">ccchamber@power-net.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Big Part of Mint Festival Weekend, August 10 &#8211; 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}