By PF Staff
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Waukegan, IL. -The Waukegan Park District is hosting the 23rd Annual Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine Arts & Music Festival on Saturday, August 19, 2023 from 11am to 4:51pm at Bowen Park, located 1800 N. Sheridan Road. The festival celebrates Ray Bradbury with arts and music. Art vendors, including painters, sculptors, and photographers, will have their art for sale.
Ray Bradbury, born in Waukegan on August 22, 1920, was an author and screenwriter in fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery. Some of his most famous works include elements of his hometown of Waukegan in them. Ray Bradbury passed away on June 5, 2012 and he is honored in numerous ways in Waukegan.
The 23rd Annual Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine Arts & Music Festival will feature live performances from the following regional artists:
Acoustic Stage
11am to 11:30am: Bill Tong
11:35am to 12:05pm: Sophie
12:10pm to 12:40pm: Rafael Torrez
12:45pm to 1:30pm: Jeff Jazzman
1:35pm to 2:20pm: Funology

Pavilion Stage
11am to 12pm: Ordinary Hero
12:15pm to 1:15pm: Jack Tell
1pm to 2:30pm: Zion Ari
2:45pm to 3:45pm: Destruction Baby
4pm to 4:51pm: Crooked Moon

2:25pm to 3:10pm: Juiette Z. Payne
3:15pm to 4pm: Zion Ari
4pm to 4:51pm: Jack Tell
New this year, local actors will perform Ray Bradbury’s Zero Hour, a suspenseful radio play about a children’s game called “invasion” that starts to become terrifyingly real as the time moves to five o’clock, the designated zero hour for the Martian invaders’ arrival. The play will begin at 6pm in the Dr. Lynn Schornick Theatre in the Jack Benny Center for the Arts.
Preregistration is not required to attend this free, family-friendly event. More information is available at waukeganparks.org/dandelion.