Veterans will be expressing themselves Aug. 2 during the ParkBeats summer music in the park series.
The ParkBeats music will start at 5:30 p.m., with the concurrent Osseo Farmers Market also opening at 5:30 p.m. The events are at Central Park in Osseo.
Schultz, Executive Director of the Heartbeat Center for Writing, Literacy, and the Arts 
“We have some extra programs by veterans and for veterans during the Aug. 2 ParkBeats, so we’ll be starting that night’s music a half-hour earlier than normal,” said Scott Schultz, executive director of The Heartbeat Center for Writing, Literacy and the Arts – the Osseo-based nonprofit education organization that presents ParkBeats.
The special veterans’ programming, part of The Heartbeat’s ongoing Veterans Expressing Themselves (VETs) project, will include displays of veteran-created art. It also will include music by Behind the Curtain, a group of veterans who are part of the Tomah Veterans Administration Hospital’s healing-in-arts project.
Vietnam veteran Doug Bradley, co-author of “We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War,” also will make a special presentation during the event. Information and exhibits by local veterans’ advocacy and tribute groups also will be part of the night’s presentations.
The night’s music also will include Dixieland Band, which has performers from throughout the Osseo and Eau Claire areas.
