What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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Fritz's Adventure Dynamic action facility Fritz's Adventure opens the nation's fi rst Aerodium Outdoor Flying Adventure this summer. The newest addition to its multidimensional adventure facility, Fritz's vertical, outdoor wind tunnel fl ight experience allows visitors to enjoy the thrill and challenge of skydiving in a safe, controlled environment. Fritz's Aerodium Outdoor Flying Adventure opens as a seasonal off ering, available through the fall. The vertical, open-air wind tunnel generates winds upwards of 140 miles per hour, allowing guests to fl y under instructor supervision. In addition to its Aerodium outdoor fl yer, Fritz's indoor adventure space boasts more than 80,000 square feet of hands-on thrills, including climbing, tunneling, sliding, ziplining and more. Fritz's Adventure is thoughtfully designed to deliver a perceived element of risk within a strategically engineered, safe environment. By off ering a variety of fun and engaging challenges, Fritz's Adventure allows visitors of all ages the chance to instill confi dence, strengthen relationships and create lifelong memories. Memorial Day Memorial Day weekend is coming up and Branson Mill off ers $1 hot dogs, live demonstrations with crafters, a coloring contest, gift basket raffl e, and specialty treats at Treehouse Café including Dole Whip, cotton candy, and free Mountain Man samples. We will announce the winner of the gift basket raffl e and the coloring contest at 5:00pm on Monday. We look forward to seeing you there! BRANSONBULLETIN forward to to to see e ing you there! BRANSONBULLETIN Plumb Nellie Days The 54th Annual Plumb Nellie Days Arts & Crafts Festival is back. Plumb Nellie brings all of what makes Branson great to one historic downtown location. Skilled artisans showing and selling what they've been hard-at-work making, mouth-watering foods, and sidewalk sales that will have you literally dancing in the street! This festival draws thousands each year from all over the United States who'll come for the arts and crafts and stay for the many shows, shops and activities that Branson off ers. Plumb Nellie Days runs through Sunday, May 20. Record Breaking Roller Coaster Silver Dollar City rolling out biggest attraction ever THE BEST OF BRANSON Rock N' Roll History Welk Resort Theatre captures million dollar moment THE BEST OF BRANSON It was Dec. 4, 1956 and Sun Records Studio owner Sam Phillips had scheduled a recording session with rockabilly guitar hero Carl Perkins.Phillips had just discovered his next star, Jerry Lee Lewis and hired him as the session player for Perkins. Phillips had recently parted professional ways with an early discovery, Elvis Presley but Elvis was coming in just to say "hi". Phillips, the "godfather of rock n' roll," was responsible for Johnny Cash's early fame and called him to come down to the studio to see his old friends. The opportunity arose to get his four discoveries in the same recording studio. An impromptu jam session ensued, a quick acting studio engineer hit the record button and the rest is rock n' roll history. Relive that million-dollar moment in time with the cast of Million Dollar Quartet at the Welk Resort Theatre through December. Chris Cathcart, who manages the Tony Award-winning Broadway style musical, knows why Million Dollar Quartet is a No 1 hit with music fans around the world. "It's the music," he said. "It's 100 percent live! We don't just hire people who look like these guys and lip sink. The band onstage are playing the music. No sound tracks. Elvis is playing guitar. Cash is playing guitar. Jerry Lee Lewis is playing piano. Carl Perkins is on guitar. These are super talented musicians, the music is great and it's all being played live onstage." You'll be dancing in your seat to rockin' classics like Blue Suede Shoes, Folsom Prison Blues, Great Balls of Fire and That's All Right Mama, plus twenty more million dollar favorites. See and listen to this over-the-top tribute to that one-of- a-kind night as the Million Dollar Quartet comes to life at Welk Resort Theatre. For more information or to make reservations, call the box offi ce at 417-337-7469 or check them out online at MDQbranson.com. MAY 20-26, 2018 WHAT'S UP! 39