Vibrant Orange City, Iowa

Téada of Ireland: March 8
2019-03-08 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Winds Event Center, 908 8th St SE, Orange City, IA, 51041, United States
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An Irish traditional band with a truly worldwide reach, Téada (pronounced “TAY-dah”) has appeared as a frequent headliner at major music festivals throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Russia, the Middle East and Australia. Their traditional yet refreshingly modern sound entrances wherever the band travels.

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One of Irish traditional music’s leading exponents, Téada is driven by a fascination for the timeless, expressive force of music inherited from previous generations of musicians. Winner of ‘Best Young Irish Traditional Act’ at Ireland’s Music Awards, Téada first came together in 2001 to make an appearance on the innovative Irish television series ‘Flosc’. With engaging textural arrangements, Téada—meaning “strings” in the Irish language—revels in the vibrant traditional music of Ireland. Deftly playing up its structural intricacies while preserving the contagious energy inherent in the repertoire, the group strives to capture a sense of the rawness and individuality of the solo artist within a modern group context.
Téada of Ireland
Date: Friday, March 8, 2019
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Prairie Winds Event Center
Tickets: $15/adults, $10/students
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Carpe Olé! Musical Comedy Workshop
2019-04-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Fruited Plain Cafe, 172 N. Main Ave, Sioux Center, 51250, United States
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International award-winning artists Olé! have a motto: Everyone has talent — we just haven’t always discovered it yet.
They’ll show you how to start, how to get your act together, overcome fear, and develop the confidence to stand in front of strangers and critics.
Find your inner performer and hone your skills at clowning, writing, acting, music, and comedy with international stars!
For performers aged 14 and up. Advanced registration required. Registration closes 48 hours before workshop begins. Attendance is capped at 20 participants.
Date: April 11th, 2019
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Location: The Fruited Plain Café, Sioux Center
Minimum Enrollment: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 20

About The Instructors:
Paul Morocco, Guillermo de Endaya and Marcial Heredia perform together in one of the most zany, unpredictable and spectacular shows in the world. It’s a wonderful celebration of music and comedy, full of surreal invention and fun. Olé comes direct from Spain and has been a favorite on the international stage for over 25 years.

Official Trailer Olé : April 11th, 2019 from Orange City Arts on Vimeo.

Get tickets for the evening performance of Olé! Epic Musical Comedy at the Unity Knight Center in Orange City here!
This performance and workshop is made possible through a partnership between Orange City Arts and Sioux Center Recreation and Arts Council.

Olé! Epic Musical Comedy: April 11
2019-04-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Unity Christian Knight Center, 216 Michigan Ave SW, Orange City, 51041, United States
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Called the “Gods of La Guitarra” and “Maestros of Love & Mayhem,” Olé! has a 25 year history of smashing expectations with their unique blend of virtuosic guitar playing and slapstick comedy antics.
Direct from Spain, master guitarists “El Gentleman,” “El Grotesquo,” and “El Macho” fight for their pride while playing, spinning, and throwing their Spanish guitars. Add in ping pong ball battles, juggling, and unexpected explosions, and the result is unforgettable!
A favorite with audiences of all ages, the show is a madcap musical journey through the rhythms of flamenco to salsa and blues to pop, accompanied by a zany comedic style reminiscent of the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges.

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The Gipsy Kings meet the Marx Brothers in this hilarious performance like nothing you’ve ever seen!

Olé! Epic Musical Comedy
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2019
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Unity Knight Center
Tickets: $15/adults, $10/students
Olé!’s visit to Sioux County is made possible through a partnership with Sioux Center Recreation and Arts.

Extend your experience with Carpe Olé! Musical Comedy Workshop! Click the link to learn more.

Porter Union: June 5
2019-06-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041
Recently featured on USA Network’s reality television series, “Real Country,” husband and wife Cole and Kendra Porter are the real deal. In a match made in honky-tonk heaven, honest, heartfelt lyrics are the perfect pairing to their old-time country sound.

After meeting and falling in love in a neighborhood bar in their Midwest hometown, they’ve spent the better part of the last decade perfecting their signature sound touring around the country, performing everywhere from dive bars to theaters to the silver screen.

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NOLA Jazz: June 12
2019-06-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041
NOLA Jazz was born in the basement of the Des Moines Social Club in 2015 and in only a few short years their “gutsy & heartfelt” New Orleans Jazz has earned them a nationwide fan base. Double Iowa music Hall of Famers (Jazz AND Rock & Roll), this 5 generation, 8 member band has played with some of the biggest movers and shakers in the New Orleans and NYC jazz scenes. But if you ask them, the real joy comes from coming together as a band to collaborate and create what they call a “family living room” experience for their audiences.

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Community Band: June 19
2019-06-19 07:00 - 20:00 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041
A perennial favorite, local musicians under the direction of Dan Mangold play everything from big band hits to movie and showtunes to patriotic melodies with a personal touch.
About the Orange City Area Community Band:
About 30 members strong, the Community Band rehearses and plays together throughout the summer. Led by MOC-FV High School Band Director Dan Mangold, the Band is comprised of a wide range of ages and ability levels and is built on the philosophy that music can continue to be a regular part of life for all of us. Band members are paid for rehearsals and performances and are an important part of the Onstage Orange City season each year.
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Festival Latino VIII: June 26
2019-06-26 18:00 - 20:30 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041
One of the most popular nights of the summer, Festival Latino is a community-wide celebration of Latin American heritage. Featuring family activities, latin music, food, and traditional dress, this event brings neighbors together to honor our differences, share commonalities and just generally enjoy each other’s company.
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Max Hatt / Edda Glass: July 3
2019-07-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041
Bossa Nova, Americana, and Folk music come together in this truly impressive, genuinely unique duo. Praised by critics for their incredible sound and extraordinary lyrics, Max Hatt / Edda Glass have recently been beloved by NPR, the legendary Daytrotter studio, PBS, Paste magazine, Huffington Post, and the Lincoln Center, to name just a few.

Max Hatt / Edda Glass have “an incomparable spook” (Nashville Scene) and a “unique sound” (Larry Groce, NPR Mountain Stage), comprised of Glass’s unmistakable voice, Hatt’s epic guitar landscapes, and their award-winning Jazz Americana compositions. Praised for her “impeccable vocal command” (PopMatters) and compared to a gamut of singers from Astrud Gilberto to Billie Holliday, Glass’s voice is ultimately “one of a kind…you cannot confuse her with another artist” (New York Theatre Guide). Hatt’s equally distinctive guitar work combines the harmonic innovations of jazz with the melodic resonance of folk, creating music that’s “subtly poignant, elegantly funky, and haunting without trying to be” (Nels Cline, Wilco). With a new album produced by Wilco’s Pat Sansone, they’ve toured coast-to-coast from NYC’s Lincoln Center to NPR Mountain Stage, Sundance Film Fest, and Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival.

Max Hatt / Edda Glass began in Montana, where Hatt had a jazz trio and Glass had a knack for singing Brazilian Portuguese. Glass sat in on songs like “Girl from Ipanema” and they soon became the state’s only Bossa Nova band, honing their original material on the side. On long drives between Bossa Nova gigs, Glass wrote lyrics to Hatt’s solo guitar compositions: “Max’s compositions are so cinematic,” she recalls, “and you look out the window and it’s like the camera’s panning for you, over these enormous landscapes, and you start expecting something to happen— a story to begin.” This highway collaboration took them all the way to New York City at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where the two unknowns won the 2014 Grand Prize of the International Mountain Stage / NewSong Competition. It was there that their songs of migrating geese, dispossessed tribes, and mysteries in the wheat fields captured the attention of their future producer, Pat Sansone. “I was mesmerized from the first moment I heard them,” Sansone recalls. “They have the ability to create a deep sonic landscape with only voice and guitar, with songs that poses a mysterious and soulful magic.”

Hatt grew up in the Chicago-land area, studied jazz guitar in the David Baker program at Indiana University, and has taken classes with Pat Metheny, Julian Lage, and Lee Retinour. The daughter of a jazz trombonist and a music aficionado, Glass was likewise steeped in jazz, and learned to sing in Portuguese through obsessive teenage listening to an obscure Nara Leão album (followed by the famous Getz/Gilberto). With other influences ranging from Neil Young to J.D. Salinger, Homer, Jim Jarmusch, and Casablanca, the duo truly creates “a unique sound harmoniously forged from seemingly disparate elements,” (Larry Groce of NPR Mountain Stage).

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Community Band: July 10
2019-07-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041

Big & Small Sounds: Parent / Child Music Date
2019-07-17 14:30 - 15:30 | Orange City Town Hall, Orange City, IA, 51041, United States
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Our littlest musicians explore sounds and song with professional strings duo Olivia and Karla of The OK Factor! Ages 3 + will engage with their grown ups in active listening activities surrounding size, range and pitch, plus explore the cello and violin up close.
Registration fee includes one child + one adult.
Ages: 3+ (accompanied by an adult)
Date: July 17
Location: Orange City Town Hall
Cost: $15

The OK Factor: July 17
2019-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041
Olivia Diercks and Karla Colahan, cellist and violinist of the new-classical crossover duo, The OK Factor, have one word to describe their musical connection: lucky.
Organic and genuine, their original compositions feel both comfortingly familiar and uniquely fresh, and have been described as “genre-bending” (Julie Amacher, MPR) and “pure magic” (Wausau Pilot & Review).

The ease with which they write and perform has caught the attention of the Minnesota music community in which they live and work, bringing them success on stages such as The Cedar Cultural Center and as frequent featured artists with Minnesota Public Radio. Their distinct compositional and performance style awarded them the honor of being finalists for the prestigious McKnight Fellowships for Musicians in 2018.

Olivia and Karla are also sought-after collaborators, having partnered with numerous Minnesota composers and musicians including singer-songwriters Ellis Delaney and Lynn O’Brien, percussionists Jenny Klukken and Krissy Bergmark, and composer Mischa Santora, among others. They have appeared as opening acts for Charlie Parr, The High Kings, and Swedish quintet Jaerv, as well as composers-in-residence for digital music library Black Label Music. The OK Factor has produced three studio albums of their original music and arrangements: Water Street (’14), That’s Enough of That (’16), and Have Yourself an OK Christmas (’17).
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Children’s Bell Choir
2019-07-18 10:00 - 11:00 | Orange City Town Hall, Orange City, IA, 51041, United States
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Learn and perform a beautiful piece of music with instructor Leanne Bonnecroy! Students will learn to read simple bell choir music, rehearse and perform with the heavenly sounds of bells.
The class meets from 10-11am on July 18th, 22nd, and 24th before performing as the opener for the July 24th Community Band concert at Windmill Park!
Grades: K-4
Dates: July 18, 22, and 24
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 am
Performance: July 24
Rehearsal Location: Northwestern College Music Building
Cost: $20

Community Band: July 24
2019-07-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041

Petsmas in July
2019-07-27 14:00 - 22:00 | Revival Animal Health, 1700 Albany Place SE, Orange City, Iowa, 51041
Revival Animal Health will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a community event called Petsmas in July on July 27, 2019. The day will include a host of pet-and family-friendly activities beginning at 2:00 pm at Revival Animal Health’s headquarters.

Musical Theatre Dance
2019-07-30 13:30 - 14:30 | Northwestern College DeWitt Theatre Arts Center, 809 Albany Ave SE, Orange City, IA, 51041, United States
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Get those bodies pumped and those jazz fingers ready to delve into storytelling through choreographed movement. Explore the foundation of dance, basic steps, and learn a dance combo that demonstrates the importance of body movement in dramatic form.
Grades: 3-5
Date: July 30
Time: 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Location: Northwestern College DeWitt Theatre Arts Center
Cost: $15
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Make ’em Laugh! Physical Comedy Workshop
2019-07-31 15:00 - 16:00 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041
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The best way to make others smile is to start laughing yourself, and this workshop makes that easy!
Learn from international clown and comedy stars Rob Lok and Miss Jane of Allez-Oops and discover just how amazingly expressive your own body can be. Giggle and guffaw through the basics of non-verbal comedy, unlock your inner goofball and get your friends and family roaring with laughter!
Ages: 5 – adult
Date: July 31
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: Windmill Park Bandshell
Cost: $10

Allez-Oops! : July 31
2019-07-31 19:00 - 20:00 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041
Married duo Rob Lok and Miss Jane are ALLÉZ-OOPS! They’re bringing back classic vaudeville acts—with a comedy twist. Having performed in over 35 countries throughout the world and in all types of venues, Rob and Miss Jane understand the need for an engaging and thrilling performance that can be understood in any language and at any age!

Blending circus thrills, deft pacing and spontaneous comedy, this family friendly dialogue-free spectacle will engage all audiences and be a guaranteed crowd favorite with their comic sight gags and visual humor.
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Whitesidewalls: August 7
2019-08-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041
Legendary in the Midwest, these guys have been rocking the oldies for decades and really know how it’s done. Come hear all your favorites the way you want them played.
Featuring five singers playing multiple instruments, the tight harmonies and driving dance beat of the Whitesidewalls are the signature of the Rock ‘n Roll Revue. Hound Dog, Swanee, Gino Gambucci, Bobby Maestro and Rocky Beaumont have handcrafted a fabulous show with tunes that will have you jumping just like they did all those years ago!

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The SchoolHouse Company: August 14
2019-08-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Windmill Park, 200 Central Ave NW, Orange City IA 51041
Following last summer’s success, our own local theatre troupe will present a popular musical revue, title and cast TBA.
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Arts on Central: August 21
2019-08-21 17:00 - 21:00 | Downtown Orange City, 200 Central Ave N., Orange City, IA, 51041, United States
The summer’s signature event, this year’s festival will feature a Sioux County first—a regional Battle of the Bands, where local musicians will engage in a contest of skills for your votes!
Meanwhile, wander Central Avenue and play games, make your own crafts and original works of art, win prizes, and taste test weinie preparations from all of your favorite businesses as once more the Orange City Chamber of Commerce pairs their annual “Thanks with Franks” with Arts on Central.

Photo Credit: Ken Fry, Centrum Arts and Foto

Audiences agree: it’s the biggest day of summer, and the best way to end summer vacation in style. In fact, Arts on Central typically attracts crowds of 3,000 people or more!
There’s a place for everyone on Central Avenue on August 21, 2019!

Photo Credit: Ken Fry, Centrum Arts and Foto

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Vision Orange City: Public Meeting
2019-11-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Prairie Winds Event Center, 908 8th St SE, Orange City, IA, 51041, United States
Vision begins here and we want you to be a part of it. Our leadership and leading programs will showcase their updates and how they are working to make Orange City more beneficial to all. Come see how working together can solve problems, create new opportunities, and inspire others to do the same.
Greetings from the Mayor followed by updates from:

Orange City Dev. Corp.
Orange City Parks & Rec
Orange City Public Library
Prairie Winds Event Center
Landsmeer Golf Course
Orange City Arts Council
Orange City Area Daycare Center
Orange City Chamber of Commerce
Tulip Festival Committee
Dutch Heritage Boosters
Sioux County Historical Society

When: November 12, 6:30 -8:00 pm Where: Prairie Winds Event Center
