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Bull Shoals will celebrate 75 years of the Bull Shoals Dam with Dam Jam 2026, a free day of music, food, cars and family fun from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at Roy Danuser City Park.
The City of Bull Shoals and the Bull Shoals-White River Chamber of Commerce are putting on the event, with 1st Security Bank as the sponsor. Donations collected during the day will go to the city’s parks.
Live music will come from BLT Americanna, Heavy Wrecker and Ozark Thunder. More than 50 vendors and seven food trucks will be set up in the park.
Motorcycles, classic cars, a boat show and model trains will be on display. Families can take in the Great Dogwood Water Balloon Battle, a splash zone, a kids’ craft corner and an airplane flight simulator.
1st Security Bank will host a weenie roast, with all donations going to the city parks.
The Army Corps of Engineers started work on Bull Shoals Dam in 1947 and finished it in 1951. President Harry S. Truman dedicated the dam on July 2, 1952, and the lake that formed behind it turned a small settlement on the White River into a resort and retirement town.
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