Tumbleweed Festival

If you're in the Garden City area, come out for LIVE MUSIC & FUN in the Lee Richardson Zoo at this year's Tumbleweed Festival. High Plains Public Radio will be hosting LIVE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCES from some of the fabulous artists playing this year. Plus, we'll broadcast LIVE from 12-2p CT as Valarie Smith hosts Songbirds, with interviews and sets from Jeff Black, Elexa Dawson & 80 Proof Alice!

New at this year's Tumbleweed Festival is HPPR's Gazebo Sessions: a special live broadcast from the festival with interviews and acoustic performances, as well as a two hour edition of Songbirds live. Saturday, Aug 26, 11a- 5p CT at the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City, KS.

Beneath the wooden gazebo in Lee Richardson Zoo, HPPR captured interviews and live sets from artists headlining the Tumbleweed Festival in August of 2022—and we shared those with you on High Plains Morning throughout the week of February 20th. But in case you missed it, HERE ARE THE AUDIO LINKS! Enjoy this little slice of Tumbleweed Festival, High Plains!

With winter on the High Plains comes the season of the tumbleweed. The Russian thistles that dried and snapped from their roots in the fall now rove the…