If you love bluegrass music, mark your calendar for Saturday, June 15, 2013, for five hours of fun. The City of Fulton, IL, and Heritage Canyon are proud to announce Fulton’s 1st Annual Bluegrass/Folk Music Festival. Five bands will entertain from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. The admission is $5 per person at the front gate and $10 per family–with a limit of two adults per family.
Heritage Canyon, 515 N. 4th Street, Fulton, is the venue, outside the General Store/Ice Cream Parlor. The buildings of Heritage Canyon will not be open during the concert, but one can look inside them.
After the following individual groups perform, they will conclude the event with a combined bluegrass medley.
- 1:00–The Matriarchs (Galena, IL)
- 2:00–The Wise Apple Riders (Illinois Quad Cities)
- 3:00–The Ryan Getz Band (Freeport, IL)
- 4:00–Dirt Simple (Wisconsin)
- 5:00–Frank Sidney’s Western Bandit Volunteers (Peoria, IL.)
This is a family event, so bring the kids, too. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.
The festival’s organizer, Bob Whitten, had this to say about the festival, “Make sure and bring your lawn chairs and blankets, pick out a shady spot, and enjoy the music. D’s Smokin’ BBQ will be cooking up rib eye and pulled pork sandwiches, hamburgers, hot dogs, and chips down in the canyon, so bring your appetite.”
The Early American Crafters will sell cones, popcorn, water, and candy bars at the ice cream parlor.
Craft vendors also will have items for sale.
Parking attendants will be on hand, and a shuttle bus will be provided for overflow traffic in the parking lot of First Christian Reformed Church on 14th Avenue, between 7th and 8th Streets in Fulton. Look for the big, pink signs along 14th Avenue.
Transportation for the elderly and handicapped will be provided inside Heritage Canyon, so don’t let the terrain stop you from coming.
For more information or to reserve a crafter spot, please contact Bob Whitten at 309-887-9210 or email whitten_bob@yahoo.com.