Eight acts spanning mariachi, Japanese taiko drumming, Celtic fiddle and Mexican folk ballet took the stage at Bountiful City Park on Saturday, Aug. 8, as the Bountiful Davis Art Center's free Summerfest Folk & Heritage Arts festival enters its final day.
The two-day festival, which opened Friday, Aug. 7, with Indigenous music and hoop dancing, runs noon to 8 p.m. at 200 West 400 North. Admission is free.
Saturday's performance lineup opened with Mariachi Fuego at noon, followed by Taiko at 1 p.m., Halua at 2 p.m., Tutilli Ballet at 3 p.m., Divya at 4 p.m., Geno at 5 p.m., Callanish at 6 p.m. and Ballet Folklorico at 7 p.m. Callanish, a Utah-based Celtic ensemble that has played together for more than 25 years, performs Irish and Scottish music on fiddle, flutes, whistles, guitar, vocals and bodhrán.
No tickets or registration are needed for general admission.
Cyanotype workshop and Art Yard
Saturday's Art Yard adds a hands-on cyanotype photography workshop led by photographer and interdisciplinary artist Sara Serratos, were open all day to visitors of any age. The sun-printing technique uses UV light and treated paper to produce blue-toned images.
Families can also helped paint a giant paper-mâché Axolote sculpture created by artist Clara Amezcua, a collaborative acrylic painting activity celebrating traditional Mexican papier-mâché and piñata-making heritage. The Art Yard is free and supervised by adult volunteers.
Food, artists and the America 250 theme
An open-air artist marketplace features regional makers who sold handmade work and demonstrated their processes live in their tents. Food trucks, provided through the Food Truck League, lined the park with cultural cuisine options.
This year's Summerfest carried the theme "E Pluribus Unum — Out of Many, One," adopted as part of the nationwide America 250 commemoration of the country's 250th anniversary. The festival also coincided with BDAC's own 50th anniversary, as we reported Aug. 4.
"As we mark America's 250th anniversary through the theme E Pluribus Unum — out of many, one — we invite our community to experience the music, dance, visual art, and cultural traditions that make our region vibrant," executive director Sarina Villareal Ehrgott said in an Aug. 4 announcement.
