The Lum & Abner Music & Arts Festival

The Lum & Abner Music & Arts Festival

Join us in Historic Janssen Park in downtown Mena for a weekend of old fashioned fun!
Mena’s signature event, the Annual Lum & Abner Music & Arts Festival is the June 6th & 7th, at Janssen Park, in Mena, Arkansas. This event is presented by the Mena Advertising & Promotion Commission and has been steadily growing year after year. Live entertainment is a huge part of the event as it runs all day both days of the festival.
In addition to live entertainment, enjoy wonderful arts and crafts, great food, a beer garden, the awesome Lum & Abner Car, Truck, and Motorcycle Show, Kiddie Korner with playground and bounce houses, the Lum & Abner 5K Run/Walk, the Lum & Abner 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament, the RE/MAX Baby Crawlin’ Contest, and more!



Events


Lum & Abner Music & Arts Festival Line Up
Friday, June 7th
10:00 am - National Anthem
2:00 pm - Shady Oak Tribadours
4:00 pm - The Iron Road Band
6:00 pm - Magnolia Brown
8:00pm - Fonky Donkey
Saturday, June 8th
10:00 am - National Anthem
1:00 pm - Ouachita Little Theatre presents Adventures of Lum & Abner
2:00 pm - Shades of Gray
5:00 pm - Jettway Performance
8:00pm - The Zac Dunlap Band
Lum & Abner Festival 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament
Late registration will be from 8:00-9:30 on June 8th. The tournament will begin at 10:00 that morning.

Lum & Abner 5K Run/Walk
- 5k Run/Walk on-site registration will start at 7:00 a.m. at Janssen Park. Race Start Time is 7:30 a.m.
- Race entry fee - $25 Pre-Registration fee through May 31, the first 50 people to sign up receive a t-shirt. After May 31, the Registration Fee is $35.
- Payment instructions- Mail or drop off checks payable to: Mena A & P Commission 524-A Sherwood Avenue, Mena, AR 71953

Lum & Abner Car Show
The History of Lum & Abner
Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was aired from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to Pine Ridge after the show’s fictional town.
Jot ’em Down Store
Created by co-stars Chester Lauck (who played Columbus Edwards, albeit he called himself “Lum Eddards”) and Norris Goff (Abner Peabody), Lum and Abner was as low-key as Easy Aces, as cheerfully absurdist as Vic and Sade, and exaggerated The Goldbergs’ ethnic focus by amplifying the protagonists’ regional identities. As co-owners of the Jot ’em Down Store in the fictional town of Pine Ridge, Arkansas, the pair are constantly stumbling upon moneymaking ideas only to find themselves fleeced by nemesis Squire Skimp, before finally finding a way to redeem themselves. Lum and Abner played the hillbilly theme with deceptive cleverness. The hillbillies knew that the slickers would get what was coming to them sooner or later and either didn’t mind or knew more than they let on that the slickers getting theirs was a matter of fortunate circumstance.

Vendor Applications Due by April 1, 2025.
Please submit your application by April 1, 2025. If you are interested in becoming a Vendor for the 2025 Lum & Abner Festival and need additional information, please contact us directly at 479-394-8355 or pasha@visitmena.com.

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