Welcomes you to the
28th Annual Hope Watermelon Festival!


Festival Entertainment

BancorpSouth Stage

Thursday, August 12
6:00 pm Dog Show (sponsored by Klipsch/Byreview Vet Clinic)
8:00 pm Draft Miser
8:30 pm Pail
   

Friday, August 13

10 am - 4pm Jim Barentine
4:00 pm Gene Cagle
6:30 pm The Campbell Family Show
8:00 pm Ace Cannon (sponsored by SuperCountry 105)
Special Guest Jumpin' Gene Simmons
   
Saturday, August 14
9:00 am TBA
10:00 am Hillbilly Horseshoes (sponsored by UACCH)
11:00 am Jeff Cuerwin & The Community Blues Band
12:30 pm The Jordans (sponsored by Brazzel/Oakcrest Funeral Home)
2:00 pm Old School
3:30 pm Sustaining Grace
5:00 pm Mike Anderson
5:30 pm Rudy Preston
6-7:30 pm Hometown Jamboree
6 pm-7 pm Night Hawk
7-7:30 pm Mike Anderson, Carl Jackson, Gene Cagle & Megan Estes
8:00 pm Bear Creek Boys (sponsored by SuperCountry 105)
   

Sunday, August 15

1:30 pm  Mary & The Summerville Singers
   


First National Bank Stage

Thursday, August 12

10 am-5 pm Jim Barentine & Friends
  Local Talent
5:00 pm Jeff Madlock & Friends
   

Friday, August 13

10 am- 5pm Open Stage Time
5:30 pm Tangence
7:30 pm Country Roads Band
   

Saturday, August 14

7:00 pm Bobby Oliver & Jam City Revue Band
8:00 pm  
   


McDonald's Stage
(Coliseum)

Thursday, August 12

7:30 pm Margie Dansby Gospel Train (The New Life Steppers, Russell Carlton, Britney Holliman, The Cross Road Singers, Providence Baptist Church, Regina Johnson, The Mountain Men, The Antwine Community Praise Dancers, Angelia Preston, Mount Tabor Praise Dancers, Leo Smith, Rev. Wallace Ingram, The Biddle Brothers)
   

Friday, August 13

Noon Mark Gunter
1:30 pm Southwest Arkansas Arts Council
2:15 pm Mark Gunter
3:30 pm SWACC
4:30 pm Mark Gunter
5:30 pm Dancetastics
   

Sunday, August 15

1:00 pm Watermelon Gospel Concert featuring DANNY FUNDERBURK & MERCY'S WAY
Local acts include:  The Good Life Singers & The Hempstead County Melody Boys
Admission $3.00 Sunday Only  
   


Street Dance
Thursday, August 12 at 7:00 pm
(in front of Coliseum)
Featuring Night Hawk-Sponsored by CenterPoint/Arkla

   

 
1615 North Hervey   Hope, AR 71801

SHADES OF GREEN NURSERY
"Beautiful flowers for office, home and garden"
James Bryon Waters, Owner/Manager 597 Hempstead Road 8 777-6887

DJ MOTOR CO.
David "DJ" Johnson
 3539 Highway 278 W.  722-6282

WYLIE GLASS & SALVAGE, INC.

Highway 67 West P.O. Box 239 Hope, AR 71801-0239 777-2786 WATS: 800-348-9894
Birkett, Barbara & Stacey Wylie


1321 South Main
777-3600


Hervey & Avenue D
Hope, AR 71802

870-777-4500

HOPE GRAPHICS
Computer Vinyl Graphics
Highway 67 East 4314 E. 3rd St. Hope, AR 71801 870-777-9729 after hours 870-777-4042
Becky Hood, Owner

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