Raw States
Saturday in the Park
Sioux City, IA · Music
- When
- July 3, 2027
- Where
- Grandview Park Municipal Bandshell · Sioux City · IA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A single-day touring-act music festival at the Grandview Park bandshell in Sioux City, running for 35 years and drawing roughly 25,000 people each July. It is one of the largest free-standing outdoor concerts in western Iowa.
The history within reach
- Winter Quarters82 mi
Some 2,500 Latter-day Saints wintered in dugouts and log huts on the Missouri after leaving Nauvoo, and around 400 died of scurvy, malaria and exposure.
Two and a half million people came to a lagoon lined with white plaster palaces meant to prove the plains were civilised.
- Templeton Rye83 mi
During Prohibition this Iowa farm town of a few hundred ran a bootleg rye operation of genuine scale, 'Templeton rye' was the good stuff in Midwest speakeasies, and Al Capone's outfit was a customer.
- Malcolm X85 mi
Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, where the Klan rode past the house while his mother was pregnant and his father, a Garveyite preacher, was later killed.
Malcolm Little was born here to a Garveyite preacher and his wife.