HOT SPRINGS – When the 39th annual Main Street Arts and Crafts Festival begins its three-day run on Friday, everyone will once again have the chance to visit this one-of-a-kind get-together and enjoy their favorite part of the action.

It might be shopping the wide variety of arts and crafts booths, having fun with some of the planned children’s activities or choosing one – or maybe more than one – of the food vendors.

A full schedule of all the entertainment, as well as a vendor listing, can be found on the Main Street Arts and Crafts Festival special advertising section, which is attached.

When your feet need a rest or you just would like to enjoy a little bit of top quality musical entertainment, follow your ears to the north end of Centennial Park where the entertainment stage is located. Nearly a dozen different acts will occupy the stage this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as a wide variety of original music and cover tunes will be presented.

Or perhaps, you have some rambunctious youngsters, who don’t really have an urge to sit and enjoy the music.

For those young ones, check out a wide variety of youth activities planned for this year’s Festival.

Fun and games with the Hot Springs Boys and Girls Club, the local 4H Clubs and the Elks Club Crafts will take place throughout the weekend.

Special “Music and Stories from Harry Potter” will take place both friday and Saturday while Jolene Jensen will conduct an Art and Painting activity on Saturday. Check the schedule on B7 for more information.

Opening the Festival on Friday will be guitarist Pegie Douglas, who offers the unique paring of Badger Clark poems with her original music. Douglas, as do many other of the acts on tap, performs frequently throughout the Black Hills.

Rock and folk performer Harland Allen takes the stage in the afternoon, presenting his acoustic offerings and then Paul Larson, who has been a frequent participant at the Badger Clark Music and Poetry Festival each fall in Hot Springs will close the day with his guitar playing and songs of the cowboy.

Singer/songwriter and acoustic guitarist Marnie Cook will present her unique folk music program to open things on Saturday, followed by fellow Folk musician Steve Thorpe. The popular county western duo of Brad and Bonnie Exton, known as the Ramblin’ Rangers, will take the stage in the afternoon with their entertaining cowboy music set and the day will wrap up with singer/songwriter Mark Williams.

Sunday will begin with Hot Springs High School junior Amber Hulse, as she plays keyboard and accompanies herself on contemporary and pop music, with some original music thrown in as well.

She will be followed by the Hot Springs men’s quartet SOUL, presenting an upbeat Christian and Gospel harmony explosion, while guitarist Frank Gregg will close the festival with his Folk and Americana offerings.

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