Category: Events
Adult Concert with Dan Bern – Americana / Rock / Folk – Former Mount Vernon Native
Dan Bern is playing in his hometown for the first time! His Facebook profile states: “If you must put me in a box, make sure it’s a big box…” You could try to label that big box as “Americana / Roots / Rock / Folk”, but, that would be missing quite a lot still. Bern has toured the US, Canada and Europe since the mid-’90s, and has recorded some two dozen studio albums. He also wrote songs for films such as “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” and “Get Him to The Greek.” He is currently writing songs for a new Amazon cartoon, “The Stinky and DIrty Show!”
Further in his Facebook profile he states: “Dan Bern is best known for his prolific songwriting and electric live persona. He has released eighteen albums and built a loyal following based on prodigious touring and output of songs in all forms.”
The Washington Post says: “Dan Bern strums drop-dead gorgeous melodies like a demon with his tail on fire; and expresses his love for humankind through scabrous, literary, skeptical rhymes full of hyper articulation and the tormented self-knowledge of the really, really smart.”
NPR says: “With his acoustic guitar and a batch of witty and insightful songs, Dan Bern is rapidly becoming the voice of a new generation of folk music.”
The Uptown Theatre in the First Street Community Center is thrilled to present Dan Bern in the second of two special shows while he is on tour.
This show is on Sunday, July 26 will be a regular adult show at 7:30pm. Tickets are $15.
Tickets on sale at CarePro Pharmacy & at the door.
You can learn more about Dan Bern at:
His Facebook page
His website
Click here for a playlist of YouTube recordings
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Children’s Concert with Dan Bern – Former Mount Vernon Native
Dan Bern is playing in his hometown for the first time! His Facebook profile states: “If you must put me in a box, make sure it’s a big box…” You could try to label that big box as “Americana / Roots / Rock / Folk”, but, that would be missing quite a lot still.
Further in his Facebook profile he states: “Dan Bern is best known for his prolific songwriting and electric live persona. He has released eighteen albums and built a loyal following based on prodigious touring and output of songs in all forms.”
The Washington Post says: “Dan Bern strums drop-dead gorgeous melodies like a demon with his tail on fire; and expresses his love for humankind through scabrous, literary, skeptical rhymes full of hyper articulation and the tormented self-knowledge of the really, really smart.”
NPR says: “With his acoustic guitar and a batch of witty and insightful songs, Dan Bern is rapidly becoming the voice of a new generation of folk music.”
The Uptown Theatre in the First Street Community Center is thrilled to present Dan Bern in the first of two special shows while he is on tour.
This show is on Sat. July 25 at 2 pm is a kids show, $5.00, kids under 5 FREE.
Tickets on sale at CarePro Pharmacy & at the door.
You can learn more about Dan Bern at:
His Facebook page
His website
Click here for a playlist of YouTube recordings
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Lincoln Highway – Henry B. Joy Tour – Historical Automobile Tour
The First Street Community Center in Mount Vernon, Iowa is in for a grand show of active automotive history on Monday the 29th of June, 2015. The Lincoln Highway Association is stopping in Mount Vernon at the Community Center for a lunch break.
The Lincoln Highway Association celebrates the “First Road Across America” with an automotive tour that takes dedicated automotive enthusiasts from all over the United States along portions of the Lincoln Highway system for a long distance automotive tour. This year’s event starts in Detroit and runs to San Francisco.
We are excited about returning to Mount Vernon. Iowa is a special state on the Lincoln Highway. We always get a great welcome there… The tour is designed to honor the 100th anniversary of the trip Henry B. Joy took to reach the Pan Pacific exhibition in San Francisco in 1915. He and his group took 23 days. Our tour is 12 days on the road.
We will visit some of the same places he did. One is Belle Plaine where he stayed overnight. Our stop will be after lunch in Mount Vernon, not overnight. That evening we will have dinner at Niland’s Cafe and stay overnight in Ames.
There are about 45 cars on the tour, but they do not travel in a caravan. They will arrive over about 1 hour. They are all gathering at the Old Middle School in Mount Vernon for lunch. Not all are antiques and Classics, but there are several Packards and other old cars with us.
We have about 90 people participating that day. There are over 100 folks with us through out the 12 days, but some come for only a part of the tour…
This is the third Lincoln Highway Association tour to visit Mount Vernon. You can tell we like your town.
– Rosemary
Many of the tour’s participants have sent in photos of their classic automobiles to their website, Rosemary has kindly given permission for me to show you some of them here as well.
NOTE: You can click on the any of the photos for a better view of the car.
You can see more of the cars that will be on the tour here. You can learn more about the Lincoln Highway Association here.
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