Columbia Community Band performs at 2009 Festival of the Arts.

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Members of SCA demonstrate fighting techniques.

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Storyville Stompers perform in the bandstand.

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Columbia Community Bands performs on courthouse steps.

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Festival attendees admire SCA display.

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Gardell Powell and Jim Judd visit at art show reception.

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Cast members of the FACT production "Once Upon a Mattress" perform on the steps of the bandstand.

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The FACT production chorus entertains the crowd.

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Food was available for hungry fair visitors.

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Marie Jaynes and Deborah Marshall dip ice cream in the FAHA Olde Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor.

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Lacey Eaton and members of the CMU Opera Workshop present excerpts from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Patience.

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The Canote Family Singers perfrom gospel tunes.

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German Oom-pah Band adds some gusto to the fair.

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The bandstand was a popular venue for perfromers at the festival.

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