FIRE ON THE WATER

From dusk until midnight, Brush Creek (Ward Parkway and Broadway) will be alight. No, no one is setting afire the effluvium along the aptly nicknamed Flush Creek. This is the fourth year for WaterFire, which would be a spectacle if only for its 55 floating bonfires. But the event, designed by award-winning artist Barnaby Evans, is also a multimedia extravaganza that includes performances by Vesuvius Tribe; Quixotic Performance Fusion; KC Swing and Tango; and singers Nathan Granner, Sylvia Stoner and mezzo-soprano Elaine Fox, whose voices will carry across the water with the wafts of burning aromatic wood. Try food from Plaza restaurants in the booths set up along the creek. Search WaterFire Kansas City on Facebook.— Robert Folsom

Sat., Sept. 18, 2010