World-Fest (April 12 – May 6)
America’s largest international festival presents top entertainers from around the world:
•NEW: Viva Italia showcasing operatic tenor Aaron Caruso, trained by Rome’s Maestro Veccia and who recently sold out at Carnegie Hall
•NEW: Piazza de Fiesta, a “Little Italy” plaza alive with true Italian entertainment including flag throwers, living statues, stilt walkers and a colorful costume parade
•NEW: The Mariachi Divas, a Grammy Award-winning all-female music ensemble with members from Mexico, Cuba, Samoa, Argentina, Columbia, Honduras and more
•NEW: Hawaiian Country Music, a show featuring Hawaii’s traditional country music starring four-time Grammy winner George Kahumoku
•NEW: Peru’s Yawar Chicci folk music and dance troupe.
•NEW: Kenyan Sarakasi Acrobats, world-renowned acrobats from Nairobi, Kenya.
•Returning favorites: Russian Academic Band, Ireland’s premier harpist Dearbhail Finnegan, Ecuador Manta and a Slovenian Polka Party (May 4-6)
Bluegrass & BBQ (May 10 – June 3)
The International Bluegrass Music Association’s reigning Bluegrass Event of the Year features:
•Bluegrass music’s top artists and award-winning performers including Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, the Grascals, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and the Kruger Brothers
•The top up-and-coming bands in bluegrass including the Gibson Brothers, Balsam Range and Little Roy & Lizzy
•Two National Bluegrass Competitions – The National Single Mic Championship (May 19 & 20) & The Youth In Bluegrass Band Contest (May 26 & 27)
•A Barbecue Feast with grills filled with over 40,000 pounds of barbecue: Memphis dry rubs, Carolina vinegars, smoky Texas eats and sweet KC-style
National KidsFest (June 9 – July 22)
The Ultimate Summer Vacation destination for families presents:
•The Fabulous Wallendas! Famous Family Circus returns, featuring Guinness World Record High Wire-Walker and Discovery Channel star Nik Wallenda
•NEW LUMA, using high-tech illumination techniques for a three-dimensional show of light, color and motion, bringing to life a story, created exclusively for Silver Dollar City, centered around the park’s Marvel Cave
•NEW: Gazillion Bubbles, an interactive show taking bubble artistry to amazing levels with lasers, lighting effects and sheer bubble mastery
•Cartoon Character Meet & Greets with kid-favorite cartoon superstars
NEW: An Independence Day Celebration July 4 turns the park Red, White & Blue with fireworks and all!
Moonlight Madness (July 21 – August 5)
It’s all about summer night thrills and family adventure from night rides to street dances:
•Ride into the night with extended time on over 30 rides and attractions
•Nightly Street Dances on the park Square
•The Fabulous Wallendas! Famous Family Circus continues for high-wire fun
Southern Gospel Picnic (August 24 – September 3)
America’s largest Southern Gospel Picnic presents hundreds of performances from Dove Award winners and top gospel acts, including:
•The Booth Brothers, the Triumphant Quartet, Jeff & Sheri Easter, the Isaacs and the Collingsworth Family
•2-hour Southern Gospel Nights Concerts each evening
•Mouthwatering picnic-style foods including the park’s famous chicken: double-battered and golden fried, apple-glazed, orange-glazed and hickory smoked
Country Music Weekend (September 8 – 9)
An ALL-NEW Music Event – A weekend featuring country music legends Diamond Rio and Pam Tillis in concert
National Harvest Festival (September 13 – October 27)
The nation’s largest festival of demonstrating craftsmen features the return of the Salute to the Great American Cowboy:
•NEW: Western Stunt Show features professional stunt men and women performing amazing feats in a light-hearted, Western-themed presentation
•Over 125 visiting craftsmen from around the country demonstrate their art in the nation’s largest festival of demonstrating craftsmen
•Best of Missouri Hands Juried Artists in a special showcase
•Legendary Western star and watercolor artist Buck Taylor returns, with guest appearances by fellow stars of classic Westerns
•Plus Cowboy Poets, wild mustangs, trick horse stunts, trick roping and bull whip demonstrations
An Old Time Christmas (November 3 – December 30)
Heralded “The Most Illuminated Park on Earth” by the Travel Channel and “One of the most sparkly, lively holiday celebrations anywhere” by Midwest Living with:
•NEW: It’s a Wonderful Life, an all-new musical production adapted from the Frank Capra classic, from the award-winning Silver Dollar City show producers
•The Christmas on Main Street light & sound show featuring the 5-Story Special Effects Christmas Tree
•The acclaimed production A Dickens’ Christmas Carol
•The colorful Holiday Light Parade
•A musical Living Nativity
•4 million lights, holiday shows, rides, shopping and Silver Dollar City legendary dining
