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SUMMARY:2026 Scarecrow Stroll
DESCRIPTION:What to Expect During Your Visit\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom the moment you arrive\, the Garden becomes a playful celebration of fall. Here’s what you’ll experience during the Scarecrow Stroll:\n\n\nScarecrows Around Every Corner: \nExplore imaginative scarecrow displays placed along meandering garden paths. Each one has its own personality\, story\, and charm. Some are humorous\, others artistic\, and some feel straight out of a fairy tale.\n\n\n\nLocal Creativity on Display: \nEvery scarecrow is handcrafted by someone in our community—artists\, schools\, families\, and local businesses. This makes each visit unique and full of heart.\n\n\n\nAutumn in Full Color: \nOctober is one of the most beautiful months in the Garden. Colorful leaves\, crisp air\, and seasonal blooms create a perfect setting for photos and peaceful nature walks.\n\n\n\nFamily Photo Moments: \nStrike a pose with your favorite scarecrow. Whether you’re capturing a family outing or snapping selfies with friends\, there are plenty of photo-worthy moments throughout the stroll.\n\n\n\nVote for Your Favorites! After exploring the Scarecrow Stroll\, you can vote for your favorite scarecrow! Look for flyers and signs around the Garden with QR codes—just scan and cast your vote directly from your phone. The scarecrow with the most votes will win a Garden Friend–level membership\, and the winner will be announced once the Scarecrow Stroll concludes!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImportant Dates\n\n\nAugust 26: Application deadline\n\n\n\nAugust 31: Selected participants notified\n\n\n\nAugust 31 – September 28: Build your creation\n\n\n\nSeptember 28 – October 1: Deliver creation to IBG\n\n\n\nOctober 1 – November 2: Exhibit on Display\n\n\n\nNovember 3-7: Scarecrow pick-up\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScarecrow Guidelines\n\n\nFamily-friendly\, weatherproof designs only\n\n\n\nMaximum footprint is 3 feet by 3 feet\, with a height limit of 6 feet\n\n\n\nDo not use hay (straw is okay to use)\, glitter\, cardboard\, or live plants\n\n\n\nNo advertising or giveaways. Limited branding such as logos on shirts or hats is allowed\n\n\n\nParticipants are responsible for installing\, maintaining\, and removing their scarecrows\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBe Part of the Stroll\nCommunity members\, businesses\, classrooms\, and artists of all ages are invited to design and build a scarecrow for display at the Garden. Show off your creativity and help bring Scarecrow Stroll to life as we transform the Garden into a joyful fall wonderland for all to enjoy.\n\n\nCreate Something to Celebrate\n\n\nLet your creativity shine by designing a one-of-a-kind\nscarecrow for display at the Garden.\n\n\n\nOpen to individuals\, families\, classrooms\, businesses\, \nand artists of all ages.\n\n\n\nFrom playful to imaginative\, each creation helps bring \nScarecrow Stroll to life.\n\n\n\nChoose a theme\, gather your materials\, and create a \nscarecrow that reflects your unique style.\n\n\n\nShare your creation with the community and inspire\nvisitors as they explore the Garden this fall.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Fall Fun\n\n\nBe part of a community tradition that brings people \ntogether through creativity and seasonal discovery.\n\n\n\nYour scarecrow will help transform the Garden into \na festive fall experience for visitors of all ages.\n\n\n\nWander\, explore\, and enjoy the creativity of our community \nthroughout Scarecrow Stroll.\n\n\n\nCelebrate the season by adding your own touch to this beloved Garden tradition.\n\n\n\nHelp create a magical fall experience where imagination\,\ncommunity\, and nature come together.
URL:https://www.mikebrowngroup.com/event/2026-scarecrow-stroll/
LOCATION:Idaho Botanical Garden\, 2355 N Old Penitentiary Rd\, Boise\, Idaho\, 83712
CATEGORIES:Festivals & Events,Halloween
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SUMMARY:BLUEY'S BIG PLAY
DESCRIPTION:This is Bluey’s Big Play\, For Real Life. \nWhen Dad feels like a little bit of a time out\, Bluey and Bingo have other plans! Join them as they pull out all of the games and cleverness at their disposal to get Dad off that bean bag. \nBluey’s Big Play is a theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series\, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm\, and new music by Bluey composer\, Joff Bush. \nJoin the Heelers in their first live theatre show made just for you\, featuring brilliantly created puppets. This is Bluey as you’ve never seen it before\, brought to real life. \nBluey’s Big Play is presented by BBC Studios and Andrew Kay in association with Windmill Theatre Co.
URL:https://www.mikebrowngroup.com/event/blueys-big-play-3/
LOCATION:Morrison Center\, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane\, Boise\, Idaho\, 83725
CATEGORIES:Family
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SUMMARY:DynaDuo Presents - Smile Empty Soul
DESCRIPTION:DynaDuo Presents: Smile Empty Soul\n9th St. Parallel at Knitting Factory\n416 S 9th St – Boise\, ID 83702\nWedOctober 147:00 pm(Doors: 6:30 pm)\nAll Ages\n$38.52Buy Tickets\n\n\nDELAYED DELIVERY: There is a ticket delivery delay in place for this event. Tickets will be emailed 48 hours prior to the event.\n\n+ Google Calendar\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\nSmile Empty Soul\n\n \n\nSmile Empty Soul was a heavy alternative trio formed while its three members were still in Santa Clarita\, California high schools.Led by singer/guitarist Sean Danielson\, the band also included drummer Derek Gledhill and bassist Ryan Martin. After honing their sound with numerous hometown gigs\, Smile Empty Soul began venturing to the Sunset Strip\, and eventually passed a demo to Todd Parker of the Los Angeles indie ThroBack. That exposure led to a deal with Jason Flom’s Lava imprint\, which was expanding in the wake of early signee Kid Rock’s white-hot success. The trio hooked up with producer John Lewis Parker\, who was at the helm for their self-titled debut\, issued by Lava in May 2003. With its screeching guitars and Danielson’s rage-filled vocals\, the album was indebted to the alternative sounds of the early ’90s. Vultures\, Smile Empty Soul’s third record (the band’s sophomore outing\, Anxiety\, was scheduled for release in 2005\, but a split with Lava kept the album from seeing the light of day until the band released it through their own MRAfia Records label in 2009) hit the streets in 2006\, and was followed by the aforementioned Anxiety. Their fourth full-length\, Consciousness\, arrived in 2009\, followed by 3’s in 2012. ~ Johnny Loftus
URL:https://www.mikebrowngroup.com/event/dynaduo-presents-smile-empty-soul/
LOCATION:Knitting Factory\, 416 S 9th St\, Boise\, Idaho\, 83702
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SUMMARY:Fruit Bats w/ Matthew Logan Vasquez
DESCRIPTION:Fruit Bats | The Landfill | MRG887 \nThe midwest\, particularly the part of the midwest Eric D. Johnson hails from\, is a largely flat expanse. Zipping through it on the highway\, you’ll see cities and towns rise up in the distance\, but blink and you’ll miss other man-made rejoinders to horizontal living dotting the landscape\, hill after hill\, built from the refuse of the past: landfills. Some of these hills make for great sledding spots\, parks\, and trails. Others turn organic waste into compost. The Landfill\, Fruit Bats’ June 12\, 2026 album from Merge Records\, is something else entirely: a mountain dominating the landscape of Johnson’s heart. \nThis being a Fruit Bats record\, one scales that mountain to take in the view\, to see the future spread out as wide and endless as the midwestern plains. “But the mountain that gives us this vantage point\,” Johnson says\, “is made out of the trash that we’ve created\, the collective weight of the past and where it’s taken us.” When he details that view on title track and lead single “The Landfill” — “a holy vision / of what could be / and couldn’t be / and could have been” — it’s thrilling to hear him sent soaring by a full complement of instruments. But what’s truly stunning is how\, in his recontouring from could to couldn’t to could have been\, he has lost none of the vulnerability that was brought to the foreground of his songwriting by 2025’s solo outing\, Baby Man. \nOver the course of his now 25-year career under the moniker\, most of Eric D. Johnson’s output as Fruit Bats has been the product of patience and fine-tuning. His songs\, to borrow a phrase\, are slow growers\, given life on albums that encompass long stretches of time and memory. Baby Man changed that — he disallowed himself from referring to material he’d been working on before laying the album down\, utilizing the morning pages technique of stream-of-consciousness\, observational songwriting which flowed directly into his afternoon recording sessions. It was both a breathtaking document of Johnson’s skill as a singer-songwriter and an unvarnished account of the two weeks in which he recorded the album. \nBaby Man’s closeness to Johnson’s heart and the close attention to his voice and instrument its minimalist-maximalist ethos required uncorked something in him as he wrote towards a new full band effort. “That session was over\,” he explains\, “but there was way more to explore. I liked the immediacy of it\, and I wanted to see how that would translate into a full-band Fruit Bats record.” Within weeks\, he was back in a studio\, this time with his band — David Dawda (bass)\, Josh Mease (guitars\, synth)\, Frank LoCrasto (piano\, synth)\, and Kosta Galanopoulos (drums) — with whom Johnson has spent over a decade building Fruit Bats into one of the most in-demand live acts in indie rock. Listening to The Landfill\, it’s not hard to understand why: simply put\, this band smokes. \nProducing the initial recording sessions in Washington’s Bear Creek Studios\, Johnson set out to capture “the sound of this band I constantly marvel at\, the feeling of being in a room with musicians you love and trust enough to let them cook.” They laid most of it down on the floor — no click tracks\, no comped vocals\, and minimal overdubs\, with frequent collaborator Thom Monahan returning to provide additional production and The Landfill’s final mix. “It’s how we do things with my other band\, Bonny Light Horseman\, and I was curious to see how it would work with Fruit Bats\,” Johnson notes. “It’s both a very personal record\, and my most collaborative to date.” \nIt’s also the most live a Fruit Bats record has been since 2009’s The Ruminant Band\, and in paring back the number of tracks that typically layer a full-band song\, the psychedelic\, technicolor dreaminess of their sound is more vivid than ever. Time and space melt into the sublime as the band gels around Johnson’s hazy croon on “That Goddamn Sun\,” stretching out to accommodate him as he trips from California to North Carolina. In striking a balance between ecstatic romance and melancholia\, “Think Aboutcha” occupies the blissful-but-doomed intersection of the E Street Band and Paul McCartney\, playful but playing for stakes that are larger than life\, while “Perhaps We’re a Storm” charges headlong into the unknown. \nAll of these songs — most of the songs on The Landfill\, in fact — mark themselves immediately as some of the best in Eric D. Johnson’s ever-expanding songbook\, seekers and anthems alike. It’s the most daunting peak he’s scaled yet\, musically or lyrically: a swashbuckling set of full-band jammers couldn’t be more honest and open-hearted about his hopes and anxieties\, his dreams and failures\, what’s passed and what will come to pass\, were it just him\, his guitar\, and the listener. \n\n \n\nMatthew Logan Vasquez\nMatthew Logan Vasquez – Best-known as the co-founder and frontman for shape-shifting heartland indie rockers Delta Spirit\, Matthew Logan Vasquez’s fiery delivery and thought- provoking lyrics draw from a huge and versatile well of influences\, including Gordon Gano\, Kurt Cobain\, Neil Young\, and Thom Yorke . As a solo artist\, he juggles elements of indie rock\, electronic pop\, R&B\, and soulful Americana\, flirting with despondency\, but ultimately succumbing to beatitude. Vasquez’s latest release SANA SANA 2026 is pushing his sound into a broader spectrum and depth\, trading in his rasp for more of a croon
URL:https://www.mikebrowngroup.com/event/fruit-bats-w-matthew-logan-vasquez/
LOCATION:Treefort Music Hall\, 722 W. Broad Street\, Boise\, ID\, 83702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Music,Music
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