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The festival includes more than 100 art and handmade craft booths, and food vendors will sell barbecue chicken and sandwiches and Liz West/ other country-themed fare. There will also be musical performances Flickr Creative Commons from country singer Randall Martin and bluegrass groups Rowdy Mountain Boys, The New Dixie Storm, Left Lane, and Last Road. This year’s musical offerings will also include a performance from SeraphSong, a women’s gospel choir.
October 13 2017 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE OR BY PHONE
In its initial years, the Pumpkintown Pumpkin Festival brought in 3,000 to 4,000 attendees and has since grown to hosting close to 35,000, says Buddy Cox, who was an original organizer of the festival in the ’70s.
$10 in advance | $15 at the door Enjoy light snacks, tasty sips, a raffle drawing and special promotions from participating stores along Butler Road.
“I think it’s just the atmosphere. We’re up in the foothills,” he says of the event’s popularity. “We’ve got a lot of wooded area where all the arts and craft people are and a creek that meanders. … With the smell of barbecue cooking and the music going, it’s just a down-home type of feel.” A festival parade will begin at 9 a.m. at the Pumpkintown Fire Department and make its way down to the community house. “It’s just a down-home, folksy type of parade,” Cox says.
FEATURING
And as the festival’s name would indicate, pumpkins will also be for available for purchase. “There wouldn’t be a pumpkin festival without the pumpkins,” Cox says. —Emily Pietras
Wandering Bard Meadery
WHEN Saturday, Oct. 14, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. WHERE Oolenoy Community House, 5301 Dacusville Highway, Pickens ADMISSION Free INFO pumpkintownfestival.org
MAULDIN YOUTH THEATRE PRESENTS
directed by Tim St. Clair II
TEENS
$8
ADULTS
$10
NOVEMBER
17-18 7:30 PM
COMMUNITY One of the region’s beloved fall traditions returns this weekend. The SC Pumpkintown Pumpkin Festival, first started in 1978, is a smalltown community event that offers attendees views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and vivid fall colors. Each year, the festival is held at the Oolenoy Community House, an old schoolhouse and local landmark constructed in 1918.
BUTLER BREWS AND MEAD
$6
OCT. 14
SC Pumpkintown Pumpkin Festival
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YOUTH
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
OCT. 15 NOVEMBER
19
3:00 PM
TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE OR BY PHONE
mauldinculturalcenter.org | 864.335.4862 THE ART HAVEN PRESENTS
Fall Art Show November 12 | 2 - 4 pm Mauldin Cultural Center
Mauldin Cultural Center 101 East Butler Road, Mauldin mauldinculturalcenter.org
MUSIC
Temple of Israel’s Music on Sunday Corde Cantanti is like a musical history lesson for the ears. The group, which kicks off the 18th annual Music on Sundays series at Temple of Israel on Sunday, focuses extensively on Baroque music and performs on a variety of historical and modern instruments, including the lute, guitar, cello, theorbo, and percussion. “This is a unique opportunity to hear music of the Baroque period performed by exceptional artists and on a variety of instruments typical of that period,” said Jack Cohan, a former Peace Center executive director who is on the concert series committee. The concert begins at 3 p.m., but an instrumental demonstration titled “Guitars Through the Ages” begins at 2:30 p.m. — Cindy Landrum
WHEN Sunday, Oct. 15, instrumental demonstration at 2:30 p.m., concert at 3 p.m. WHERE Temple of Israel, 400 Spring Forest Road ADMISSION $20 INFO 863-292-1782, templeofisrael.org