Support QCS2025: Celebrate The Arts, Support Poverty Relief

The 14th Annual Queen City Shout festival takes place March 24 - 30, 2025, showcasing more than 100 live musical acts, as well as film, poetry, dance, and visual arts at multiple entertainment venues located throughout Springfield in the Historic C-street, Downtown & Rountree neighborhoods.

The seven-day festival offers annual attendees and new fans alike the opportunity to experience daily live performances, displays, and exhibitions by local and regional artists. Besides great entertainment value, each ticket sold supports poverty relief in Springfield and the surrounding areas. With thousands of attendees annually, festival organizers estimate more than $100,000 has been raised in support of nonprofit organizations working to alleviate poverty in the Ozarks.

This is where our annual fundraiser comes in. Whether you plan to attend the event or not, this is just a little extra something to help us in our final goal for raising funds for our participating nonprofits. In short, added to our ticket sales, we will use all the donations from our fundraiser to distribute it out to our participating nonprofits equally.

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Queen City Shout is Springfield, Missouri’s largest arts showcase, including music, film, visual arts, dance, poetry, and more. With a two-fold mission to Celebrate The Arts and Support Poverty Relief, the festival offers attendees a week-long opportunity to take in a vast array of outstanding creative talent this area has to offer. Annual proceeds benefit numerous nonprofit organizations serving the greater Springfield area.