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Pear Blossom Spring Fair

Created by Larry Marshall (See other events)
Everything Old is New Again!The old Pear Blossom Street Fair is now renamed the new Pear Blossom Spring Fair and is celebrating its 30th year. In addition to the new name is a new venue at Hawthorne Park.The event, as always, follows the Pear Blossom Parade on Saturday, April 10th from 10 AM to 7 PM and has the largest potential crowd of any Southern Oregon event. The event continues on Sunday, April 11, from 10 AM to 5 PM.With crowds of 20,000 or more at this two day event (previously held on Friday and Saturday), the Alba Park venue was outgrown. The Heart of Medford Association (HMA), a nonprofit organization (www.heartofmedford.com) , decided to move the event to Hawthorne Park. They have retained Joy & Larry Marshall, Marshall Fundraising Management as the Event Managers.This year, in addition to the 100+ retail, arts/crafts and other vendors along with 14 food concessions, there will be something for everyone! New this year in the Kids Zone will be activities for kids created especially for them by ScienceWorks with interactive space-orientated projects and Kids Unlimited creating “tattoos” using removable ink with glitter and sparkles. Wildlife Images will be featuring some of their ‘traveling’ animals and teaching about exotic animals; all the old standards will still be there, too, with cotton candy, pony rides, face painting, bounce houses, and elephant ears to eat and alpacas to meet! The Southern Oregon Alpaca Association (SOAA) will be introducing their unique and adorable ‘farm’ animals to many kids for the first time.For the first time, an outstanding music component is being added to the event to make it even more enjoyable! There will be a large professional mobile stage with first-class sound and many of the best Rogue Valley musical talent groups will perform...with the professional entertainers generously donating their services back to the event! The musical theme will be spirit-uplifting in keeping with the mission of HMA.The performance roster is as follows (subject to change):Saturday:• 12:00 -12:40: "Random Sound", 13 year old kids rock & roll band, covering Beatles songs, as well as originals;• 1:00 -1:40: "The Relief", a dynamic group full of energy and passion will perform all original songs that will have everyone dancing in front of the stage;• 2:00-2:40: "The Rogue Suspects", playing well-known funky blues, rock and Motown;• 3:00-3:40: "Michael Mish", environmental-oriented musician/composer, will hit the keyboard singing many of his Emmy-award winning children's songs, R&B, and covering songs from iconic legends, Elton John, Cat Stevens and The Beach Boys;• 4:00-4:40: “Michael ‘Hawkeye’ Herman and Friends”, acoustic blues musician and global blues educator;• 5:00-5:40: "Apropos Musique", unique sounds of contemporary pop group;Sunday:• 12:00-12:40: "Siskiyou Violins", nationally-honored, teen ensemble;• 1:00-1:40: "The Gayle Wilson Band", long-time favorite, performing classic rock;• 2:00-2:40: "4 Stories High", recently transplanted duo from New York City, Laura Berman and partner/husband, Craig Benelli, will perform 'New Thought Inspirational' community music;• 3:00-3:40: "The Hedgehogs", soulful gypsy jazz and swing group with Brad Kauder, Dan Fellman and gang;• 4:00-4:40: "Havurah Choir" led by Allen Kenner & delivering uplifting selections;HMA is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help revitalize and build awareness to the renewal of downtown Medford along with its retail merchants, and to renewing foot traffic to the area and its environs.
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