Summit Summer Festival enjoyable set for Saturday

The rural mountain group of Summit will come alive with music, artwork and celebration on Saturday because the annual Summit Summer Festival returns for one more day of free household enjoyable from 11 a.m. into the night.

This 12 months’s pageant guarantees a packed schedule of stay music that includes 9 acts, together with Marshal Adams (11 a.m.), Road Sodas (midday), Karl Smiley and Vicki Wolf (12:50 p.m.), Ernie Shuyler (1:45 p.m.), Chester Drawers (1:55 p.m.), Big Fir (3:20 p.m.), DTW (6:30 p.m.), Melanie Reid (8:30 p.m.) and The New Mistakes (9 p.m.).

Other foremost stage performances embrace the Sunrise Dance by Serena (12:40 p.m.) and drumming led by Michelle Lovrich (5:50 p.m.).

Festival-goers can get pleasure from a wide range of group actions all through the day. A watermelon-eating contest scheduled for 3 p.m. will function youth and adults in a juicy competitors, whereas a pie and cake public sale at 4:45 p.m. guarantees scrumptious treats and spirited bidding.

One of the day’s highlights might be a second-line model parade at 5:30 p.m., led by DTW with full viewers participation, bringing the group collectively in a celebratory march. The festivities may also function craft cubicles, meals distributors, an artwork present and a silent public sale.

The Summit Star Quilters, lively since 1972, will as soon as once more raffle off a home made quilt, which might be on show within the Summit Community Center. Tickets might be accessible for buy on website.

Attendees may buy limited-edition T-shirts that includes this 12 months’s poster artwork created by 95-year-old native artist Earl Newman.

The pageant serves as the main fundraiser for Summit Community Education Outreach, a nonprofit group that gives scholarships to graduating highschool seniors and helps the Summit Center, a free group house.

Organizers remind attendees that whereas admission is free and all ages are welcome, canines and alcohol will not be permitted on the pageant. Given the dry situations this summer time, festival-goers are inspired to be fireplace aware. Attendees ought to carry their very own consuming water and snacks.

To attain the Summit Summer Festival, take Highway 20 west from Philomath, flip proper onto Summit Highway (U.S. Highway 180), and observe the highway to Summit.

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