Siouxland Families

Fireworks. Funnel cake. Ferris wheel. Funk music. Sioux City's biggest and best music festival, Saturday in the Park features all that and more, and you're going to want to be part of the tens of thousands of people who flock to Grandview Park on the first weekend of July to be a part of the fun! Here's your guide to attending Sioux City's Saturday in the Park Music Festival.   *Now updated with details for the 2025 Saturday in the Park festival! * Crowd at a previous year of SITP, photo by R.W.  Saturday in the Park Main Stage The 2025 Saturday in the Park festival will bring us funk, blues, country, and rock! This year's concert on July 5th, 2025 is headlined by Teddy Swims , known for his vocal range, vocal control, and rasp on bluesy songs including his viral hit Lose Control and the Door. His new album I've Tried Everything But Therapy drops June 27th so we are going to be some of the very first people to hear him after its release and we get to do it for F...

If agile footwork to the beat of an Irish drumbeat makes your soul stir (it does mine!) you do not want to miss A Taste of Ireland  when it comes to Sioux City this fall! Thank you to A Taste of Ireland for sponsoring this post.  This October, Sioux City fans can discover A Taste of Ireland live at the Sioux City Orpheum Theatre! Here's what families should know about A Taste of Ireland before the October 23rd show in Sioux City: image provided by A Taste of Ireland What is A Taste of Ireland? photo provided by A Taste of Ireland A Taste of Ireland is a new off-Broadway production featuring Irish dance and music. The talented cast includes performers with experience in productions like Lord of the Dance and Riverdance  and the audience will love classic songs like Danny Boy , Tell Me Ma , Wild Rover , and many more . Modern Irish dance, contemporary dance, tap, and imaginative storytelling make this show a captivating experience. Throughout the show, the cast puts these...

Performer extraordinaire Tom Cridland is bringing his Elton Tribute show to Sioux City on August 28th, and Elton fans are going to love it. The great music of Sir Elton John would be enough to ensure a good show on their own. But Cridland doesn't leave it at that--he also has an incredible backstory that makes this show even more unique and special.   Basically, during the lockdowns at the beginning of this decade, Brit Tom Crindland took up a new hobby, like so many of us: he decided to learn to play the piano. Beyond the fun of it, he also hoped it would help him stay sober after recently recovering from a struggle with alcoholism, and it did. Crindland poured his heart and soul into the music, focusing on getting himself healthy and staying busy. But his amazing talent shone through, and it turned into much more. When the world opened back up, Crindland took his act to the stage and it was electric. While he doesn't sound exactly like Elton (or claim to), he does have tons ...

Grandview Park sits amidst the central Sioux City hills, with a spectacular view of much of the city from the highest points in the park. As promised, there's a grand view! Grandview Park Basic Facts Grandview Park sits on 32 acres, roughly between McDonald to the west, Douglas Street to the east, 24th street to the south, and Stone Park Boulevard to the north, while Grandview Boulevard winds through the park. The park has been open to visitors since 1908 when it was opened as Grand View Park.  Grandview Park Bandshell The star of Grandview Park is its bandshell. The art deco masterpiece was built as part of the civilian works administration, and its beautiful appearance to this day is a testament to their hard work.  When no performance is happening, you can climb on stage yourself! CWA Project 217, aka the Grandview Park Bandshell, was designed by l...

Fine arts abound in Siouxland! In addition to excellent school performances from area high schools and colleges, there are also a large number of professional and community theater and music performance groups in Sioux City, Sioux Falls, and other nearby communities in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Here's where to catch the best choral and instrumental music, musicals, plays, dinner theatre, and more in Siouxland:  Live Music in Siouxland The Browns Le Mars, IA This northwest Iowa family has serious pipes, and puts them to good use singing for audiences across the nation, and right here in Siouxland! When they aren't on the road, the Browns perform at the Browns Century Theater in Le Mars. For more information, visit the Browns website or follow them on Facebook . Rockestra Sioux City, IA Sioux City Rockestra is America's first professional rock orchestra! Founded in 2004, Rockestra has been providing quality entertainment since, including several CDs.    For more...

This weekend, epic adventure sweeps into Siouxland as the Sioux City Symphony presents Star Wars like you've never experienced it! The original Star Wars movie, now known as A New Hope (episode 4) will be shown on a huge screen at the Orpheum theater with the original voice and sound effects, however the symphonic music originally provided by the London Symphony Orchestra in the 1977 film will be replaced by live music from the Sioux City Symphony! A New Hope is rated PG, but there are few scary moments, and I would recommend this event for kids 8+ who can sit still and quiet for 2+ hours (the movie run time is 121 minutes, plus plan on a few minutes of introduction from the Sioux City Symphony and possibly an intermission) and who are okay with some sci-fi suspense and fighting. Star Wars: A New Hope at the Sioux City Symphony has two performance times: Saturday September 29th at 7:30pm Sunday September 30th at 3pm All seats are $49, and tickets are available onli...

Each month we will bring you info on free events for kids in the Siouxland Area. If you know of one we have missed, please leave us a comment or send us an email. We will update our lists throughout the month as we hear of new events, so check back often for the latest scoop! We also recommend checking out our monthly post of activities that have a charge! Happening in June 6/1: Sioux City Public Library summer reading program "local heroes" kickoff event at Morningside library, 10am to noon 6/1: Junie B Jones birthday party at Barnes & Noble 7pm 6/2: Family storytime at Perry Creek library, 11am 6/2: Stick and Stone Storytime at Barnes & Noble 11am 6/2: Read-to-me dogs at Sioux City downtown library, grades K-5, 2-3pm 6/3: Family storytime at Morningside library, 10:30am 6/4: Live Animal Lunchtime at Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center, 4:30pm, all ages 6/5: Hapless Heroes, juggling and more at the Morningside library, 11am & 1:30pm, all ages, free...