Park City Event Guide: August 17 – 19

August 17, 2018 by Molly Miller, Colony PR Leave a Comment

FRIDAY, August 17

This weekend, it feels like things are winding down, but not without about eleventy free see-ya-summer concerts. There are so many, in fact, we couldn’t list them all! Check the schedule at Mountain Town Music’s website; they’re responsible for programming so many of them and have created opportunities for hundreds of our community members to enjoy so much music throughout our gorgeous summer days and nights.

This weekend, we’re enjoying our free time to the fullest as we say a bittersweet goodbye to summer. We know, we keep saying it and it’s pretty uncool. But we need to face it eventually – school starts next week!

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KPCW’s Back Alley Bash
5 – 9 PM @ Town Lift Plaza 

TONIGHT: Cole Sport presents the annual KPCW Back Alley Bash, from 5 – 9 p.m. at the Town Lift Plaza. This free event has live music, games, and activities for the kiddos. There’s also food and beverages available for purchase, and all sales benefit KPCW, our local nonprofit, community radio station. PLUS – there’s an opportunity drawing, the winner of which will get a Grand Glamping Adventure for four: a 3-night stay in a luxury tent at Conestoga Ranch + breakfast & dinner each day! Tickets are $25 each or 5 for $100.

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Neil Simon’s “Biloxi Blues”
8 PM @ The Egyptian Theatre

This Tony-award-winning show is presented by the Neil Simon Festival and is the second in Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical comedy trilogy. The show focuses on Eugene Jerome, a young army recruit during World War II, stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943. There he will meet a diverse assortment of soldiers,l learn about life, love, and some harsh lessons while in boot camp. Some adult language and situations. “Biloxi Blues” will play the Egyptian Theatre through August 19th.

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SATURDAY, August 18

MOVE →

Mid-Mountain Marathon
7 AM @ Silver Lake, Deer Valley 

No surprise to us! This trail marathon has been voted the best in Utah – and the course rolls right through The Colony! It begins bright and early – 7 AM – at Deer Valley, and follows the iconic Mid-Mountain Trail for nearly 20 miles. The last bit of the course takes runners through the Utah Olympic Park trail system, with an exciting finish at the base of the 120-meter Olympic Nordic jump.

The course winds across the Wasatch Back at an average elevation of 8,200′ and is largely shaded single track, and also serves as a fundraiser for our community Mountain Trails Foundation, which builds, maintains, and protects Park City’s 400-plus miles of trails.

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Saturday Morning Nature Walk
Saturdays: 8:30 AM @ Swaner Nature Preserve and EcoCenter

Explore the Swaner Preserve wetlands with a guide to learn about the wonders of wetlands, native plant and animal species and the history of the Preserve. Through September 30.

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Yoga on the Patio
Saturdays @ 10:30 AM
Park City Library

Join the complimentary community yoga classes on the patio outside the Park City Library! Held each Saturday at 10 a.m., through August 25, the class provides an opportunity to start your weekend off on the right foot – and to connect with your Park City neighbors. Bring your yoga mat; classes move inside if it rains.

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Build Your Gnome Home 
10 AM @ Kimball Art Center

Calling all kids! You guy probably already know this, but everyone needs a home for their garden gnome! Or a fairy garden. Or a terrarium. Whatever you want to call your creation, you can make one Saturday at Kimball Art Center!

Guidance on building the craft is provided, along with materials: large clay slabs, felt, yarn, popsicle sticks, and other supplies. Once the gnome home is constructed, kids will paint their houses with colorful underglazes. Due to drying and firing times, pottery will be ready for pick up 10-12 days after the class has ended. Adults are required to register with children; no more than two children per adult. $50 per child/adult pair ($25 for each extra student),

HEAR & SEE →

Jim Gill
1:30 – 2:30 PM  &  3 – 4 PM
Park City Library 

This is a fun one: you’re instructed to “get ready to sing, clap, dance and sneeze along during this visit” – sounds like a winner, for sure. Jim Gill is an award-winning musician and author, and his music play creates the spirit of a family room in the concert hall. It’s an invitation to children, parents, and grandparents to sing and play together! 

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Miners Park Free Concert
IRIS / memoryfield @ 1:3o PM

This eclectic and highly accomplished trio, consisting of vocalist IRIS, guitarist/vocalist Billy R. Preston and Juliet Gamero on keyboards/vocals have been writing and recording together since their early beginnings in Austin, Texas.

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Miners Park Free Concert
Brother Run @ 3:30 PM 

This duo is, as its name suggests, a brother band collab. Austin and Skylar Stoddard say they’re musically inspired by their surroundings and life journeys. They share their talents with one another to compose art that is inspirational and joyful to their audience.

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Canyons Village Concert
Magic Giant @ 6 PM

Just a few more concerts left in this free series! Catch Magic Giant this week on the Canyons Village Stage. As always, you’re encouraged to utilize alternative transportation (like Park City’s incredible free transportation, or use the Summit County/Park City e-bike share program!) The shows are programmed by Mountain Town Music; here’s the rest of this season’s schedule:

• Aug. 23rd – Zander
• Aug. 30th – Big Blue Ox
• Sept. 1st – Marc Broussard

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SUNDAY, August 19

BUT FIRST, COFFEE →

Pink Elephant Coffee Roasters is a local business located on Historic Main Street. The tiny space brews a cup of coffee with HUGE taste.

HEAR & SEE →

Free Concert @ Park City Mountain 
4 PM @ Legends

OF NOTE  →

Park Silly Sunday Market is OFF on Sunday, August 19. It will return on Sunday, August 26, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Historic Main Street.