Free Evening of Artistic Performances 

Bringing together opera, tango, fire and modern dance, some of Kansas City’s most innovative performance styles will collide on Saturday, Oct. 24, for WaterFire Kansas City 2009. Back for its third year, the moving, multi-sensory experience will feature intimate performances by Vesuvius Fire Tribe, Quixotic Performance Fusion, local operatic singers and KC Swing and Tango. The free event begins at dusk on Brush Creek and runs until midnight. A full schedule of the evening’s live performances is listed below.

6:15 p.m.          Sunset; continuous music begins

6:30 p.m.          Fires lit

6:37 p.m.          Live tango performance by KC Swing and Tango

7:01 p.m.          Live performance by featured vocalist Nathan Granner (tenor), “Music of the Night” from Phantom of the Opera; written by Andrew Lloyd Webber

7:24 p.m.          Live performance by featured vocalist Sylvia Stoner (soprano), “Quando m’en vo” from La Boheme; composed by Giacomo Puccini

7:38 p.m.          Live performance by featured vocalist Elaine Fox (mezzo soprano), “Only Love” from The Scarlet Pimpernel; composed by Frank Wildhorn

7:41 p.m.          Live tango performance by KC Swing and Tango

7:59 p.m.          Duet by featured vocalists Elaine Fox (mezzo soprano) and Sylvia Stoner (soprano), “The Barcarolle” from The Tales of Hoffman; composed by Jacques Offenbach

8:11 p.m.          Live performance by featured vocalist Nathan Granner (tenor) and guitarist Beau Bledsoe, “Extase”

8:15 p.m.          Live tango performance by KC Swing and Tango 

8:23 p.m.          Live performance by Quixotic Performance Fusion

8:50 p.m.          Live performance by featured vocalist Elaine Fox (mezzo soprano), “Seguidilla” from Carmen; composed by Georges Bizet

9:08 p.m.          Live performance by featured vocalist Nathan Granner (tenor) and guitarist Beau Bledsoe, “Chiquilin de bachin”

9:22 p.m.          Live performance by Quixotic Performance Fusion

9:32 p.m.          Live tango performance by KC Swing and Tango 

9:36 p.m.          Live performance by featured vocalist Nathan Granner (tenor), “Glad To Be Unhappy”; composed by Rogers and Hart; arranged by Jeffrey Rukaman

9:42 p.m.          Live performance by featured vocalist Sylvia Stoner (soprano), “O mio babbino caro” from Gianni Schicchi; composed by Giacomo Puccini

9:51 p.m.          Live drum performance and fire dancing by Vesuvius Fire Tribe

10:05 p.m.         Live performance by featured vocalist Nathan Granner (tenor) and guitarist Beau Bledsoe, “La Barchetta”

10:10 p.m.         Live performance by Quixotic Performance Fusion

10:52 p.m.         Live tango performance by KC Swing and Tango

Midnight            Program concludes; fires extinguished

*Note: This schedule does not include spontaneous sidewalk performances by Vesuvius Fire Tribe.