From July 15 to August 3, we traveled over 2500 miles and visited Yakima and Spokane, in Washington, Salmon and Coeur d'Alene, in Idaho, and Troy, in Montana. Even though the temperature was over 100 degrees most of the time and the schedule was packed, many Chautauquans feel that this year's tour was one of our best.

Parades

• Salmon, ID—a festive Everybody's Welcome parade down the main street with our marching band and performers.
• Troy, MT—a lively and colorful preshow parade around Roosevelt Park with our marching band, performers, one of our beautiful giant puppets and many enthusiastic audience members.
• Troy, MT—an impromptu parade through a local supermarket that brought smiles to shoppers and employees.
• Coeur d'Alene, ID—a dynamite Samba Carnival-type revelry with 300 local children, as part of the Art On the Green Festival.

Workshops

This year, the workshops included:

• Samba (drumming and dance)
• Community Quilts
• Magic
• Juggling
• Song Swap
• Mask-making
• Improvisational Voice
• Orff Musical Instrument Making, and
• Acrobatic Pyramid.

Community Shows

• Juvenile Detention Centers in Yakima, WA and Coeur d'Alene, ID— samba drumming, magic and juggling workshops with 80 kids. Kids who were in workshops were invited to be part of the vaudeville show that took place in the facilities.
• Inner City Outreach–Spokane, WA—a show and workshops at four middle schools. The summer program, Hubs, serves over 400 children, many from financially challenged families.
• Senior Center in Salmon, ID—a performance for elders at the Discovery Care Center.

Community Quilt Donation

A total of 48 Baby Quilts were donated to the Epic Crisis Nursery and YMCA Crisis Center in Yakima (29), Women's Helpline in Libby, Montana (12) and Mahoney House in Salmon (7). These quilts will go to children in need.

Vaudeville Show

This year, our full-length Vaudeville shows featured:

• Magical Mystical Michael
• Joey Pipia, the fabulous magician and funny guy
  • (Two Magicians!  Count 'em!  Two!   No waiting!)
• Faith Petric, our living treasure of folk music
• Haute Trash Fashion Show (ooh la la!)
• David Kelly, splendid juggling
• Greenlight Circus, bilingual clowning and juggling
• CrowNose Quintet, no fast funk music
• Adam, and the mysterious Diablo juggling
• Smerdyakov Karamazov, delightful humor
• The Amazing Noodlini and Son, Old World Juggling
• Fyodor Karamazov, and his Flaming Meteors
• Harry Levine, singing Mud Bay Juggler
• Phina and Sophie, comedy and dance
• Karl and Dr. Pom, lyrical music of hammer dulcimer and nyckelharpa
• Petra, the tap-dancing wonder
• Baba Baby Huey and One-Two, quixotic wisdom, and, of course,
• The Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra.

Four Shows

• Franklin Park, Yakima, WA
• Roosevelt Park, Troy, MT
• Island Park, Salmon, ID
• North Idaho College-Art On The Green, Coeur d'Alene, ID

Benefit performance

The show in Troy, MT was a benefit performance for the Troy School Arts Program and Friends of the Hot Club. The Friends of the Hot Club supports cultural growth in the Troy area.