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40 bands on tap for the 2022 John Hartford Memorial Festival will appeal to bluegrass, newgrass and jamgrass fans.

The Wichita Catholic Diocese plans to explore whether Father Emil Kapaun died a martyr in a North Korean prisoner of war camp.

The next installment of the John Hartford Memorial Festival is in the works, With the regretful 2021  passing of the creator, John Hotze. Tom Burkhart has joined with Brent Turner and John Grantz to maintain the festival into the future.  The event is scheduled for June 1st through the 4th in 2022.

  Article Contributed by John Hartford … | Published on Thursday, May 20, 2021 We are excited that the John Hartford Memorial Campout will be our first "official event" of the year. Keeping the tradition of the John Hartford festival alive, June 2-5 will be in memory of John Hartford and John Hotze. There will be music on the main stage Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tickets will not be sold this year. The campout will be open to everyone who has a paid camping reservation. If you are coming for the weekend or overnight and don't have a camper, you will need to make a primitive tent re...

By MIINDY KEPFIELD Staff writer Father Emil Kapaun’s extraordinary life will be honored with a funeral Mass at Wichita arena, but his family wanted to return him home first. His remains will be flown from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Eisenhower Airport, where a procession will escort them to St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church, in Pilsen, where Kapaun grew up. “When I found out I broke down,” longtime Kapaun Museum volunteer Harriet Bina said. “Right now I am so thrilled. I know that’s what his mother had prayed for…for a long time. And I didn’t think that would happen for a while.”