Wah-Shun-Gah Days is this week
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Originally published 02:13 p.m., June 16, 2008
Updated 02:14 p.m., June 16, 2008
COUNCIL GROVE — A Council Grove tradition continues this weekend as the Wah-Shun-Gah Days festival runs Friday through Sunday with comedy, music, the event’s annual Inter-tribal Pow Wow, and other entertainment. This year’s festival will mark the event’s 26th year.
Comedian Heywood Banks headlines Friday’s Wah-Shun-Gah activities. Banks, who has been featured in “Rolling Stone” and “People” magazines, as well as on “Entertainment Tonight” and “Evening at the Improv,” performs at the Council Grove Auditorium at 7 p.m. Friday night. At 9 p.m., local band Clearview will perform rock ’n’ roll from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s at the Main Street Tent.
At 8 a.m. on Saturday, the festival’s annual car show begins in the courthouse parking lot. The 2008 Wah-Shun-Gah Days parade begins on Main Street at 10 a.m. Also on Saturday, festival goers will be treated to the spinning skills of Brent Dellingar, the 2002 national yo-yo champion and a repeat performer from last year’s festival. Dellingar will perform at 1:30 p.m. in the Council Grove High School auditorium. The auditorium will also host a performance by the mother-daughter puppeteer team of Clement McCrae, from Kansas City, Mo. Clement McCrae will perform two shows, one at noon and the second at 3 p.m.
The festival’s annual taste of American Indian heritage, the Inter-tribal Pow Wow, begins at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Kaw Mission. The powwow runs until 10 p.m. and continues Sunday at 1 p.m. Also on Sunday’s schedule is the Wah-Shun-Gah Walk, beginning at 8 a.m., and the annual children’s tractor pull contest, which begins at 1 p.m. on the Neosho Riverwalk.
Wah-Shun-Gah Days festival is sponsored by the Council Grove/Morris County Chamber of Commerce. For a complete schedule, visit the chamber’s Web site at www.councilgrove.com.
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