Union Square has been transformed in time for MusicFest 25 and is filled with greasy food, blasting music and one famous face gearing up for tonight’s show.
Check out our slideshow below and get a taste for what MusicFest 25 has to offer.
- Crews prepare the video screen and ensure perfect sound for tonight and tomorrow night’s shows.
- Also for thrill-seekers: the climbing wall.
- Bounce houses go up on the outskirts of Union Square.
- Grease smells permeate the air Friday afternoon outside the Union County Courthouse.
- Giant turkey legs and lemonade: God’s gift to man. Oh, and on sale at MusicFest 25.
- Vendors sell their wares on Washington Street in the afternoon as crews otherwise prepare the area for the evening’s shows.
- Stage crews test the sound system on the Main Stage Friday afternoon before performers enter the area.
- A zip-liner tests the equipment before allowing customers to take to the ropes.
- A clearly avid Razorback fan sells his wares just inside the northern entrance near First Financial Bank.
- The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission sets up for MusicFest with a number of fish swimming idly in the afternoon sun.
- Onlookers enjoy a variety of fish swimming the tanks of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
- MC Hammer and his group rehearse on the Main Stage before tonight’s show. Hammer will follow Vanilla Ice at 9:45 p.m.











