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Queen City Shout, a Springfield arts festival, is back for its 13th year, kicking off on Monday, March 18. New to the festival this year, which showcases local music and filmmaking, are poetry and ...
The Old Capitol Art Fair was first celebrated in 1962. It has been held continuously on the lawn of and in the streets surrounding Springfield's Old State Capitol, except when the historic 1837 building was being reconstructed in 1966-70. [1] The fair is known for the Children's Tent, a Springfield innovation.
Springfield is home to the annual Springfield Old Capitol Art Fair, a spring festival held annually in the third weekend in May. [68] Since 2002, Springfield has also hosted the 'Route 66 Film Festival', set to celebrate films routed in, based on, or taking part on the famous Route 66. [69] [70]
As the Springfield Art Museum prepares to shutter for three years of renovations, museum staff are packing up for a new, temporary location.. The art museum will conclude all programs and ...
"The Gillioz Jazz Festival allows us to move in conjunction with national promotion of jazz, and to creatively expand our programming," said Geoff Steele, Gillioz Center for Arts & Entertainment ...
The Mattoon Street neighborhood features many of Springfield's most prestigious residential addresses, on Mattoon Street, Salem Street, Elliot Street, etc. It also features one of the famous architect H.H. Richardson's first works in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the Hispanic Baptist Church. Early each Fall, the neighborhood hosts a large ...
Arts & Culture Grant funds, which come in part from hotel/motel tax revenue, will benefit 25 organizations in Springfield and the surrounding area. Springfield Regional Arts Council distributes ...
In 2010 and 2011 the Springfield-headquartered Hampden Bank sponsored the Hoops City Jazz & Art Festival, a three-day event that drew approximately 30,000 people to Metro Center to hear varieties of different jazz music—from smooth jazz, to hard bop, to New Orleans-style jazz.