Silver Dollar City - Street Fest

 

Welcome back to Silver Dollar City

The first major festival of this season is STREET FEST

There are a lot of specialty foods available around the park and they do have a tasting passport available if you are interested.

In the Riverfront Playhouse, the Anastasini Circus is performing.  You'll absolutely love Coco, their clown who entertains before the show and then several times in between acts

Their first act was a foot juggler

Coco helping out a volunteer at the miniature bike

Coco showing how it is done

Aerial silk artist

Have you ever seen a man spin 10 plates at once?

Aerial rings

These two brothers performed some Icarian Games where the older brother would launch the younger brother into various flips

The Anastasini was very entertaining and definitely worth seeing

Sometimes you come across a show that you just cannot describe in words and that show is most definitely Kristy Sellar's Imaginarium currently playing in the Opera House

It would be easy to label the show as pole dancing interacting with multimedia, but that really does the show no justice.  It is just something you have to watch for yourself

The show also features an aerial hoop artist

If you only have time to see one show during Street Fest, it needs to be this one

They had some very random acts on the Square this year.  One was where they had park guests pretend to be animals and other circus things and the other was this Pom Pon Parade.  It could be be described as a generic Chinese dragon

Over by Red Gold, the Living Garden was back with a few new characters

The crowd favorite fountain lady was back again this season

The final year of Street Fest runs through April 29

Street Fest - Food (SDC)

  

FOOD

A major part of Street Fest is the food offerings.  SDC has brought back Tasting Passports to help guests maximize their food spending money and be able to test out these new offerings

STEAK FAJITA LOADED HOT DOG

Lady Liberty

Thoughts: Good combination of flavors.  The steak was seasoned nicely.  The hot dog was a good quality product.  The cheese topped it off perfectly

HIGHLY RECOMMEND

FRESH FRUIT LIEGE WAFFLE

Taste of the City

Thoughts: This thing was pretty yummy.  The one thing (and you will see that it is a common thing this year - the portion is really tiny and we believe this is the full size unless a full size is two waffles instead of one).  The waffle was bathed in chocolate and then covered with the toppings that included whipped cream and strawberries.

RECOMMEND

STEAK FAJITAS LOADED RAVIOLI

Lady Liberty

Thoughts: The steak was good here too and the raviolis were fresh so this was an amazing combination of flavors

HIGHLY RECOMMEND

SMOKED BRISKET TOTCHOS

Hatfield's Tater Patch

Thoughts: This sounded like it would be good on paper, but the execution was just all right.  The individual components were tasty, but together it just didn't really work.  If you think the portion looks tiny in the photo, it was even worse in real life.

DECENT / SKIP

FAJITA CHICKEN BREAD CONE

Taste of the City

Thoughts: This might have been the winner on this food card.  Full sized portion loaded with chicken and the cone tasted like a sweet pretzel.  Very good.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND

STRAWBERRY FANTA FLOAT

Hannah's

Thoughts: This year's version was a major upgrade from last year. The fruit on top made all the difference.  A great treat to enjoy

HIGHLY RECOMMEND

Final thoughts on this year's offerings.  We honestly were disappointed in what was offered.  The portions we saw / got at a lot of places were not really worth a "punch",  Hopefully as the season goes on this improves on subsequent tasting cards.

Street Fest (SDC)

 

Welcome to Street Fest at Silver Dollar City

Let's take a look at the entertainment offerings for this festival

Starting on the square, there are three Blossom Beauties wandering around interacting with park guests

On the Gazebo Stage, Kent Arnsbarger is performing on his steel pan.

This guy is extremely talented.  He actually recorded all of his background accompaniments himself.  He has a degree in music from the University of Indiana

Have you ever wanted to see a roaming band with a cowbell player?

How about a roaming band with TWO cowbell players?

Yeah we didn't get that either, but BOOM! definitely seemed to be having a good time regardless

We Flip Acrobats also performed on the square

Pretty entertaining duo

The Living Garden returned to the Red Gold Plaza for another season

The cast does a nice job

New this year was a fountain

There was a wandering peacock (peahen?) that was walking around near the Red Gold

Eric Haines, the one man band was back again this year.

He is a lot of fun and did a small set over by the entrance to Echo Hollow

Our favorite show this year was the Anastasini Circus.

In the past, this group has supplied a few small acts to be performed on the Gazebo Stage.  This year they were given a real stage and a longer show

The show featured quick change artists, diablos, aerial artist

and ended with this amazing balancing act.  This was by far the best show during the festival

Remember those BOOM! cowbell players?  Well they apparently play percussion in the drumline.  Why they didn't play on their drumlines with the rest of the band, I am not sure.  The BOOM! drumline wanders around Rivertown

In the Opera House was the final show of the festival - Bloom

The show featured a quick painter with dancers

The dancers were amazing, but we were really underwhelmed by the artist, especially after seeing Paint Jam the last few years at the park and the high level art that those painters did

The real star of the show was Kristy Sellers who did an amazing pole artist act synced to the projected background on the screen behind her.  It was amazing and I would have loved to have seen more of her performing

This was the finale of the Bloom show.

Overall a pretty good festival.  Like normal there were high highs and several acts that we will not need to see again.  Great start for the season at SDC.  Looking forward to the next festival