As part of a community wide celebration of the 50th Walnut Valley Festival, Southwestern will, for the first time, produce Gale’s “Winfield, A Bluegrass Musical.” Set at the campgrounds during the festival, the musical tells the story of a first-time attendee who finds love, family, and himself among the strummers and pickers who inhabit the festival campgrounds. Armed with a guitar, his best friend, and a new song, Dusty encounters the ethereal Celeste and falls hard. Along the way he meets Peg and the pickers of Pirate Camp, Cookie and the Mutineer camp strummers, and the mystical musical minions who inhabit the woods by the Walnut River. Plans call for the show to take place in Richardson Performing Arts Center (RPAC) on the evenings of Sept. 9 and 10, with a matinee on Sunday, Sept. 11. The Sunday matinee will be free of charge to any festival attendee (wearing a wristband), and buses will be on hand to transport people from the campground up to Southwestern College’s campus for the show.