Oldsmar’s Centennial celebration continues this Friday

Dinner dances, car shows, concerts and festivals have highlighted Oldsmar’s centennial celebration so far in 2016, and the Oldsmar100 festivities continue this week with the latest Fifth Friday concert at R.E. Olds Park.

Oldsmar's second Fifth Friday centennial concert takes place this Friday, April 29, from 5-10 p.m. at R.E. Olds Park.

Oldsmar’s next Fifth Friday Sunsets at R.E. Olds Park centennial concert series, featuring the Cristi Vale Band and Soul Circus Cowboys, takes place this Friday, April 29, from 5-10 p.m. at R.E. Olds Park.

Oldsmar’s yearlong centennial celebration has already featured everything from dinner dances to custom car shows.

Yet there’s still plenty more to come before the festivities conclude with a special concert at Tampa Bay Downs in October.

In fact, the centennial party continues this weekend with the next Fifth Friday concert at R.E. Olds Park on Friday night.

“We would like to tell you about the next People’s Centennial concert that’s coming up on Friday, April 29th from five till ten,” Oldsmar100 committee member Quyen Le Trujillo said during the April 19 council meeting.

Quen Le Trujillo (R) poses with a friend at the Centennial Dinner Dance in March.

Quen Le Trujillo (R) poses with a friend at Oldsmar’s Centennial Dinner Dance at Nielsen headquarters on March 31, 2016.

“Cristi Vale Band will be our opening band, Soul Circus Cowboys will be our headliner, and during intermission, we will have the world’s largest country line dancing here in Oldsmar!”

While Trujillo couldn’t get Mayor Doug Bevis to commit to the line dancing, the mayor did say Tampa-based Soul Circus Cowboys is on the verge of becoming a nationally recognized act.

“If you have not seen Soul Circus Cowboys, they put on a great show last time (they played here),” Bevis said. “They’re probably going to be in Nashville very soon with a national recording contract.”

The concert is the second of four such themed events to be held held on the four fifth Fridays in 2016.

The first was in January, when the Black Honkeys kicked off the city’s centennial celebration, and the next two will take place on July 20 and September 30. Those concerts will feature Caribbean and golden oldies themes, respectively.

Oldsmar will host 4 Fifth Friday concerts in 2016 as part of its centennial birthday celebration.

Oldsmar will host 4 Fifth Friday concerts in 2016 as part of its centennial birthday celebration.

In the coming months, the city will host a special centennial edition of Celebrate Oldsmar in September that will include the rescheduled Oldsmar Days parade, and the centennial festivities will conclude with a concert featuring members of Journey, Kansas, the Beaver Brown Band and Deep Purple, backed by local rockers, Stormbringer, on October 1 at Tampa Bay Downs.

“This only happens every 100 years,” Council member Jerry Beverland said in approving the $50k loan to the centennial committee on April 5th. “I’m all for it.”

For more information on Oldsmar’s centennial festivities, including the Fifth Friday events, visit Oldsmar100.com.

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