Events

Jun 14

Oahe Days is an annual Arts & Music Festival that takes place in Pierre. 

The event will include live music, art & food vendors, carnival rides and games, a beer garden, and many more fun activities for the family!

Jun 14

Celebrate the arts and crafts that are melding Native American culture and the new west.

During the three-day “Gift from Mother Earth Art Show.” Exhibitors, the makers of custom-made clothing, jewelry and other items for sale, fill much of the visitor complex.

The booths open at 8 a.m. all three days.

Awards are given in several art categories. Visitors also enjoy American Indian performers.

Jun 13

Jun 13

Celebrate the life and times of one of Deadwood’s most famous gunslingers—Wild Bill Hickok at Wild Bill Days.

Music, National Dock Dogs Competition, classic car auction and gold panning demomstrations.

Jun 14

 Join the Fun in Garretson!

Three days with live music and entertainment, parade, vendor fair, fishing derby, and an Old West reenactment! A 5k/10k/1mi race is free and open for any festival attendee on Saturday morning.

Local businesses go all out for Jesse James Days, providing entertainment on Main on Friday and Saturday evenings, and specials all weekend long!

Jun 14

The community of Highmore comes together each year to offer a variety of different events. Our goal is to make Old Settlers' Weekend fun for the whole family.

Events include a parade, car show, rib cook-off, bull bash, golf tournament, street dance and church service.

More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/highmoresdcivicandcommerce/

Jun 14

Fine Arts in the Hills displays fine arts from across the country! Some artists may also be selling their artwork. Come visit Main Street of Hill City to see the beautiful artwork! 

Jun 14

The two words are synonymous with fun, music entertainment, dancing, and traditional Czech foods.  The celebration has kept alive the heritage of the early founders of the little South Dakota community who came to Tabor from Czechoslovakia as early as 1869.

What started out to be a small community celebration has grown into an attraction that draws literally thousands of people each year.  The little town of 400 people and the surrounding rural community has attracted as many as 10,000 people to Czech Days.

This 2024, events will include the annual parades, baseball, fireworks, music, Bohemian tractor pull, craft fair, quilt show, carnival, dancing, craft workshops, queen pageant, kids' pedal tractor pull and Czech heritage reenactments.

Jun 09

Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society's newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous.

Mar 23

For over 600 years, stringed keyboard instruments have served as repositories for human imagination, science, technology, craft, artistry, and music. They are admired for their stature – and oftentimes stunning beauty – alongside their ability to play both melody and harmony. Keyboard innovation has continuously expanded throughout the world, throughout time.



Opening in March 2024, the special exhibition “High Strung: Five Centuries of Stringed Keyboard Instruments” will explore the form, function and development of keyboard instruments from early harpsichords to the modern piano. The special exhibition brings together nearly 20 keyboard instruments from the NMM’s collections - some of which have never before been on exhibit.



Instruments that will be on display include:


• An octave virginal (NMM 4660), from the same workshop as the NMM’s Neapolitan harpsichord, c.1530 (NMM 14408)

• A highly decorated harpsichord by Andreas Ruckers, 1643 (NMM 10000)

• Harpsichord by Nicolas Dufour, 1683 (NMM 5943, pictured below), made in Paris in a native style that fell from popularity by the first decade of the 18th century

• French grand piano, Clavecin à marteaux, (harpsichord with hammers) by Louis Bas (NMM 4653) from 1781. This instrument, the earliest surviving French grand piano, is exceptional, retaining much of its original action parts

• Downward-striking piano by Nanette Streicher und Sohn (NMM 10298), and a small trapezoid hammer instrument by Gottfried Maucher (NMM 4570) – an example of a lesser-known instrument type, similar to the tangentenflugel by Späth and Schmahl, built c.1784 (NMM 4145), which was once a favorite instrument type of Mozart

• Grand piano by Erard (NMM 5984) and Chickering & Sons (NMM 5413), built at a time in which America led the way in piano technology, not only with grand pianos, but also with the large ”square” pianos by makers such as William Knabe & Company (NMM 14447)



“High Strung: Five Centuries of Stringed Keyboard Instruments” will open to the public on March 23, 2024 in the NMM’s Jason & Betsy Groves Special Exhibition Gallery. It will remain open through the calendar year. Support for the exhibition is provided by generous grants from the Clayton and Odessa Lang Ofstad Foundation and the City of Vermillion, SD.

Fee: $Included with Museum Admission