What's Happening in Provo and Orem | Apr. 18, 2025

What’s Up Provo! Happy Good Friday and hope it’s been a great Holy Week for everyone so far. So many events to get to, lot’s going on, let’s just hope the weather cooperates!

A few highlights from today’s newsletter:

• 🥚 Easter Egg Hunts, Utah's Maple Syrup Festival, Ties and Tiaras Daddy-Daughter Dance

• 🎵 Deer Valley Music Festival Announcements

• ☀️ Sunshine Buns

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Here’s a quick roundup of the best local news (no police reports allowed):

🎵 Deer Valley Music Festival Announcements
This 2025 season will run from July 3 to Aug. 9 and feature artists such as The Beach Boys, Lindsey Stirling, and Common, plus shows like Disney in Concert, and The Music of Journey.

🏛️ Elder Christofferson dedicates the newest building on BYU campus

Sports
🎾 BYU men’s tennis’s first game of the BIG 12 tournament ends in a loss to OSU 3-4. Box Score
⚾️ BYU beats UVU 9-3. Highlights
🏀 The twin brother of Utah Jazz player, Taylor Hendricks, is transferring to UVU. Article
🏀 “Top point guard Robert Wright III on why he signed with BYU”. Article
🏃‍♀️ Hutchins breaks BYU 10,000-meter record. Article

Saturday is packed with events. Maybe the most events we’ve ever included for a single day. Let’s get into it!

Friday
47° | 🌧️ | 65%

🏇 Utah Barrel Race
Rodeo season is coming up and in Heber they are featuring the original women’s rodeo event! (As you may already know, this is a “women-only rodeo event” )
Wasatch County Event Complex | Today & Tomorrow 8am - 4:30pm

🌸 Mother’s Day Original Show
This one is an artist reception, so some of the artists will be there and they’ll be selling actual, one-of-a-kind originals. So when the piece sells, that’s it (although some may be made into prints after the show).
Frameworks Gallery University Place | 7pm - 8pm

🦈 Family Night Shark Dissection
We heard that once a shark was dissected and they found a full suit of armor. And a French fishermen found an unopened bottle of madeira wine inside a shark. And they drank it! Anyway, not sure you’re going to find any treasures like that inside these sharks. But the real treasure is the memory you’ll make a long the way, and it sounds like this one will be memorable!
Little Beakers in Orem (143 N State Street) | 6pm - 7pm

👉️ Also:
Film: The Da Vinci Code (PG-13, 2006) from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Media Auditorium
Utah Shakespeare Festival: Henry IV at the Orem Library at 7pm
Good Friday Evening Service at 7pm
BYU Baseball vs Arizona at 4:30pm MDT at BYU's Miller Park
BYU Softball vs Utah at 6:30pm at Miller Park
BYU Men's Volleyball vs Pepperdine at 7pm at Smith Fieldhouse
Short Attention Span Theatre at the Noorda Center for the Performing Arts at 7pm

Saturday
56° | ☀️ | 0%

Easter Egg Hunts 🥚 🍬 🐇 

About 8,939,132 eggs will be hidden around the Provo, Orem, etc. tomorrow. Here’s where you can find each and every one:

🥚🛍️ Easter Egg Hunt at the Market
The Provo Farmers Market’s first ever Easter Egg Hunt! Fill your basket, get a picture with the Easter Bunny at Red Robin, and BYOB!
(bring your own basket)
Provo Towne Centre Mall (Food Court) | 12:30pm - 1pm

🥚⚱️ Artifacts of History Easter Egg Hunt
This one’s an all-day egg hunt in the bookstore! Just find an egg, turn it in at the front desk, and claim your prize—every participant wins, no matter your age.
(Also, going through Saturday, they’re having their 📚️ Basket O’ Books sale, fill an easter basket with kids books and pay only $20.)
Artifacts of History | 10am - 9pm

🥚 🐰 Springville Easter Egg Hunt
Thousands of eggs, age-divided hunt zones, prizes, and a breakfast selection from food trucks. (Free event)
Memorial Park | 9am - 10am

🥚⏲️ Bunny Hop Egg Drop
What we like about this one is that apparently it stops exactly at 10:17am.
Vineyard Grove Park Splash Pad in Vineyard | 9am - 10:17am

🥚🍓 9th Annual Earth Day Easter Berry Nature Walk, Easter Egg Hunt
A much healthier option. 100 plus fruit and nut trees and 37 kinds of berries!
1pm to 4pm, call 801-808-4424 to register

🥚 Teen After Hours: Egg Hunt
Teens in grades 7–12 are invited to compete in this one.
Orem Library | 6pm - 8pm

🌷 The Annual Pleasant Grove Easter Egg Hunt
Discovery Park | 10am | for ages 0 - 12

Ties and Tiaras Daddy-Daughter Dance 👑 

It’s going to be a night filled with dancing, food, crafts, and great memories at the Provo Rec Center! It’s the 2nd annual Ties and Tiaras Daddy-Daughter Dance.
Provo Rec Center | 5pm - 7pm | More info

Utah's Maple Syrup Festival 🍁 

We love finding you hidden gems, and this is definitely one of them!

This one is put on by a group of neighbors in Woodland Hills and it’s free to attend! There’s going to be live music and free games, a free petting zoo, as well. Also maple syrup tastings, a vendor market, and an exclusive chance (your one and only chance for a while) to buy locally made Bigtooth Maple Syrup.

Lauritzen Field, Woodland Hills | 10am - 2pm | More info

🎭 Mountain Melody Marionettes: Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin is his name! Should be a great show for kids 3 and up (in other words, it’s not the Brothers Grimm version where Rumpelstiltskin has an… unusual demise). Right now the spots are filled up for all three performances, but there is a waiting list for each.
Provo Library, Bullock Room #309 | 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm

🐣 Easter Extravaganza
We thought about including this with the Easter Egg hunts, but we don’t think there’s an official Easter Egg hunt at this one.

So there may or may not be an Easter Egg hunt, but there’s pretty much everything else: Free photos with the Easter Bunny and Pawlette the Build-A-Bear bunny, train rides, a petting zoo, face painting, the Easter Market (with about 40 vendors), even a magic show and story time on stage!
University Place | 12pm - 4pm

👉️ Also:
FREE Adult Pickleball Clinics! from 9am to 11am in Mapleton
Stupendous Socks and Terrific Teddy Bears at Heindselman’s Yarn & Needlework
BYU Men's Volleyball vs Pepperdine at 7pm (home)
Orem City Free Swap at Palisade Park from 8am to 1pm

Friday Foodie
Sunshine Buns ☀️ 

When we walked into Sunshine Buns we saw just two cinnamon rolls on display and assumed that was all they had left for the day (they do sell out sometimes).

So, we told them we’d buy everything they had left. Don’t do that. Turns out they usually have a ton of freshly baked rolls in the back.

Anyway, Sunshine Buns opened up August of last year. They serve up yummy cinnamon rolls for dine in, pick up, or catering. They’ve always got their classic flavors (Mema Original made with a 40 year old family recipe, and the Original Cream Cheese) but they also rotate some of their other flavors. Some examples are 🍪 Cookies & Cream, the Raspberry Crumble, 🍊 Sweet Orange, and more!

Sunshine Bun’s menu

Live Music 🎸 

@ The Velour
Friday - (Wild Flour EP release show) Drusky, Geist, Wild Flour
Saturday - Bombshell Flowers, DefMoe, Lighthouse Logic

@ The Boardwalk
Friday - Jack A., INK, ICYR

@Java Junkie
Saturday - Nick Webb, Danielle Pace, Ani Rowley

@ The Rise
Friday - NO PRO & FRIENDS
Saturday - WAIKS

See ya Monday!

Thanks for reading and have a great Easter weekend! 😉 

-Nicole, Josh, & Carlie

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