Wednesday, October 06, 2004
10 girls in queen's contest for 57th Ozark Folk Festival
From the Eureka Springs (AR) Times-Echo
The Queen of the 57th Original Ozark Folk Festival will be chosen from 10 candidates as the Festival gets started Thursday evening.
The Queen's Contest is the first event of the four-day Festival.
Local high school girls compete for the royal honor by writing and presenting elocutions and presenting a fashion show of Victorian bathing suits and wedding dresses.
Emmylou Harris,Buddy Miller, Guy Clark, Jesse Winchester, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage and Maura O'Connell will all be present for the four-day event which also includes a parade, folk song writers contest, and the celebratation of the coming of the autumn season in the Ozarks.
The Basin Park Hotel began the Barefoot Ball tradition in the early 1950s when two contestants from the radio show "Truth or Consequences" won a trip to the Eureka Springs Ozark Folk Festival and were "dared" to leave their shoes in California and spend the entire trip barefoot!
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Eureka Springs Times-Echo
The Queen of the 57th Original Ozark Folk Festival will be chosen from 10 candidates as the Festival gets started Thursday evening.
The Queen's Contest is the first event of the four-day Festival.
Local high school girls compete for the royal honor by writing and presenting elocutions and presenting a fashion show of Victorian bathing suits and wedding dresses.
Emmylou Harris,Buddy Miller, Guy Clark, Jesse Winchester, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage and Maura O'Connell will all be present for the four-day event which also includes a parade, folk song writers contest, and the celebratation of the coming of the autumn season in the Ozarks.
The Basin Park Hotel began the Barefoot Ball tradition in the early 1950s when two contestants from the radio show "Truth or Consequences" won a trip to the Eureka Springs Ozark Folk Festival and were "dared" to leave their shoes in California and spend the entire trip barefoot!
Read the article
Eureka Springs Times-Echo
# posted by Dave Sichak @ 10:18 AM 
