Culture Daze Festival

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The annual Nacogdoches Culture Daze Festival will begin on Monday, May 2 at 7 p.m. in Swan Lake Hall of Madame Gurskey’s Academy of Tap and Ballet.
The festival will be three days full of fun, food, festivity and culture.
Day one of the festival includes musical performances by Josh Turner, Luke Bryan, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Maypearl Weedmeyer, Tammanette and the Tams and Cookie and the Cupcakes.
“Country-western music certainly is part of our culture,” festival sponsor, Madame Gurskey said. “We have booked a number of stars and rising stars who are very popular.”
Opera Appreciation Day includes operatic performances by Tutti del Frutti, Frutti del Tutti, Spumoni, Vino Veritas and Veritas Vino beginning at 8 p.m. in Swan Lake Hall.

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