The Cotton District Arts Festival & Taste of Starkville 2008 will be held on Saturday, April 19 in the Historic Cotton District in Starkville, Miss... The festival is free and open to the public, and located just 0.2 miles from the Mississippi State University campus...The CDAF is a family-friendly event with live music, arts and crafts vendors, food vendors and more... Some of the festival events include the Taste of Starkville, Y'all Magazine Sweet Tea Challenge, Server Race, Father of Waters Bagpipe Parade, Juried Art Exhibition, Artison's Village, Poetry Slam, International Village, Old Cotton Mill 5K Run/Walk, the Junior Humane Society Children's Pet Parade, more than 30 local food vendors, over 100 local artisans vendors, and non-stop live entertainment from 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. on three different stages:Already booked for the CDAF '07 are the Skeleton Crew, Maria y El Sol, Nash Street, Big Blue Truck, BlackJack Road, Young Agent Jones, Roadhouse, the Artesia Jubilees, Ex- Supermodel, Jeff Cummings & Jeffrey Rupp, The Jarheads, The Pounder, TomFoolery, HayJay, Bobby Shannon, the Dawn Barham Band and more TBA...*For more information, contact Jen Rabideau at 662-312-3076 or
[email protected] or Candy Crecink at 662-324-3008 or
[email protected] at the Starkville Area Arts Council, or Ben Bounds at the Greater Starkville Development Partnership at 662-323-3322 or
[email protected]://starkvillearts.org/CDAF.shtml
http://www.starkville.org
