Waukegan arts, music festival honors author Ray Bradbury

Posted August 15, 2023 11:00 pm

Submitted by the Waukegan Park District

The 23rd Annual Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine Arts & Music Festival will be from 11 a.m. to 4:51 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, in Waukegan's Bowen Park. Courtesy of Jeff Justman

The Waukegan Park District is hosting the 23rd Annual Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine Arts & Music Festival from 11 a.m. to 4:51 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, at Bowen Park, 1800 N. Sheridan Road, Waukegan.

The festival celebrates Ray Bradbury with arts and music.

The free family festival features local artists, vendors, community organizations, music and dance stages, storytelling, and creative art projects for all. Visit Artist Lane to see and purchase local art.

Art vendors, including painters, sculptors and photographers, will have their art for sale. Attendees can also visit the Waukegan Park District's Arts Park to make their own art.

Ray Bradbury, born in Waukegan on Aug. 22, 1920, was an author and screenwriter in fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery. Some of his most famous works include elements of his hometown of Waukegan in them. Ray Bradbury passed away on June 5, 2012, and he is honored in numerous ways in Waukegan.

The 23rd Annual Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine Arts & Music Festival will feature live performances from several regional artists

New this year, local actors will perform Ray Bradbury's Zero Hour, a suspenseful radio play about a children's game called "invasion" that starts to become terrifyingly real as the time moves to five o'clock, the designated zero hour for the Martian invaders' arrival. The play will begin at 6 p.m. in the Dr. Lynn Schornick Theatre in the Jack Benny Center for the Arts.

Advance registration is not required to attend this free, family-friendly event. More information is available at waukeganparks.org/dandelion.

The Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine Arts & Music Festival will feature numerous local artists displaying and selling their work. Courtesy of Jeff Justman

Zion Ari is just one of the musicians who will perform at the Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine Arts & Music Festival Aug. 19. Courtesy of Jeff Justman

Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine Arts & Music Festival

The festival will take place from 11 a.m. to 4:51 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, at Bowen Park, 1800 N. Sheridan Road, Waukegan, and feature live performances from the following regional artists:

<b>Acoustic Stage</b>11-11:30 a.m. Bill Tong

11:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. Sophie

12:10-12:40 p.m. Rafael Torrez

12:45-1:30 p.m. Jeff Jazzman

1:35-2:20 p.m. Funology

2:25-3:10 p.m. Juiette Z. Payne

3:15-4 p.m. Zion Ari

4-4:51 p.m. Jack Tell

<b>Pavilion Stage</b>11 a.m. to noon Ordinary Hero

12:15-1:15 p.m. Jack Tell

1-2:30 p.m. Zion Ari

2:45-3:45 p.m. Destruction Baby

4-4:51 p.m. Crooked Moon

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