Festival of Flowers Greenwood Sc 2019

Bring together us for our final event of the 52nd South Carolina Festival of Flowers!

Open up to the Public, Free

This amazing
Musical Salute to America past the 246 Army Band volition exist showcasing tunes yous love and sharing their talents and dearest of music.

The 246 Army Band has been performing for more than 75 years. As the premier touring musical representative of the Due south.C. National Guard, this acclaimed system travels hundreds of miles each year presenting a variety of music to enthusiastic audiences.

Through these performances, the 246 Regular army Band fosters the back up of the American people for members of the armed services and their efforts around the country.

More Most the Due south.C. National Guard 246 Army Band

The 246 Ground forces Ring consists of 37 Soldiers/musicians who play in multiple ensembles to create the different touring groups.  These groups offer varied repertoire but consist of a standard ensemble of music of pop, patriotic and prove tunes.

The band was involved in multiple campaigns during WWII and has traveled overseas to areas such equally Guam, the Dominican Republic, Hawaii, Key Westward, and Florida.  In recent years, the band has played for the South Carolina Governors Inauguration, the “Bojangles 500” at Darlington Raceway, 75th Anniversary of the christening of the UsS. Yorktown, “Fall for Greenville” and the “Red, White and Blue” festivals in Greenville, S.C.

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Wesley Eatables will host its annual
Ladies Bridge Dejeuner
from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Friday, June 28th in Asbury Hall.

Ladies are required to sign up for a table of iv and each will rotate to other tables throughout the day to enhance the social aspect of the event. During check-in, in that location will be morning time refreshments equally well as a schedule given for seating arrangements and tickets for a chance at numerous door prizes. A lunch break from 12:00 noon – 12:thirty p.m. will feature a lunch to include vino and dessert.

Play resumes at 12:xxx p.thousand. and ends at 2:30 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and 3rd-place high scorers and door prizes will exist drawn.

Cost is $fifteen per person.

For information, contact Wesley Commons at (864) 227-7221.

Join Greenwood Variety Grouping

Saturday, June 22, 10 a.grand. to one p.thou.

At Magnolia Park

For a twenty-four hour period filled with family unit fun activities!

Take hold of a functioning by a hip hop artist. Be entertained past the magical sounds of a saxophonist and a bass player. Exist swept away by poesy and puppeteers. It’s all about fun on Family unit Fun Twenty-four hour period as visitors paint rocks, learn drumming, arts and crafts newspaper birds and pot a take-abode plant.  At the bookstall, children can select their own books and hear a storyteller. At Beanie Babies and Bears, there will be free stuffed animals. The Dorsum to Nature berth introduces snakes and other treasures from the woods while children use clay and colors to create their ain interpretations of nature’southward bounty.And it’southward all free.So join your friends and make new ones at Family Fun Day  — because there’s nothing quite like a walk in the park. (Sponsored past Greenwood Diversity Group)

Fix to have a blooming adept time…shopping?

Come out to Belk and celebrate summer and the SC Festival of Flowers with a fun celebration of what’south trending in fashion right now! So grab your girlfriends and visit Belk to shop ’til you drib!

Enjoy special discounts, cosmetic goody bags for the start 50 purchases in ladies or cosmetics, and giveaways every one-half hr! Vino, hors d’oeuvres, and music volition be sure to keep y’all feeling the fun all evening long.
  Come gloat with us in style!

Join usa in celebrating National Pollinator Week with a special effect touring the SC Festival of Flowers Topiaries and several of the Urban center of Greenwood’south Pollinator gardens.

Your tour volition be led by City of Greenwood Horticulturist, Ann Barklow, of the SC Festival of Flowers topiaries and the pollinator gardens.

National Pollinator Week is a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word most what
you can practice to protect them.

Bee Metropolis Us fosters ongoing dialogue in urban areas to raise sensation of the role pollinators play in our communities and what each of united states of america can do to provide them with good for you habitat.

The Bee City USA program endorses a set up of commitments, defined in a resolution, for creating
sustainable habitats for pollinators, which are vital to feeding the planet. Communities that participate are provided numerous benefits, including improving local nutrient production and addressing pest command issues less toxically.

Incorporated cities, towns, counties and communities across America are invited to make these commitments and become certified as a Bee City USA affiliate. For more than data refer to www.beecityusa.org.

Hosted by:
Lakelands Beekeepers Association & Greenwood In Bloom

Kickoff the summer on the Lake in style

Lake lovers and music lovers alike will assemble to kickoff the Lake Summer Concert Serial with entertainment by Split Shot. Separate Shot has grown to exist one of the most popular variety bands in the Carolina’s! With the charm only true Southerners tin can possess, they bring their talent to the land with a quick-witted, knee joint slapping sense of humor coupled with a articulate dear for the music.

Featuring ELoveation!

There is no better place to savour an outdoor concert than the Uptown Market place. Join Festival fans as we partner with Uptown Greenwood.

Fri, June 14th
5:30 p.one thousand.
Free Admission

Food and Concessions Available.

This years amusement volition feature “ELoveation.” They are a South Carolina based band that is speedily gaining recognition for their intense musical energy, versatile vocals, sensational style and dynamic sound. The Eloveation feel is a prove is like no other. They let the audience to go absorbed past their high energy and style. Eloveation is an eight-piece outfit with a lead guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and outstanding vocals.

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Bring together us!

The Greenwood Festival Chorale celebrates the SC Festival of Flowers 52nd Anniversary with a special performance.

Tickets are $xv and are available for purchase from Chorale members, the Arts Eye in Uptown Greenwood and at the door the evening of the operation.

For more data, visit GreenwoodFestivalChorale.org

This twelvemonth the Chorale presents Comedies & Tragedies – Songs about love lost, love found, love avoided, and love confounded (and avenged!). Songs about the quondam westward, the Blue Skies, and “up yonder”.

The Cokesbury College Historical & Recreational Commission, volition provide tours of Cokesbury College from two:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.  Visitors will see all the recent restoration efforts, both inside and outside of the College building.

Commissioners, acting as tour guides, volition discuss the Commission’south brusk and long-range plans for enhancing access to and community use of the College and grounds.  In addition, Commissioners will hash out planned restoration of other elements of the Cokesbury Community, including the Chapel and the original General Store and Post Office buildings which are located across the street from the College.

Cokesbury College was congenital in 1854 and opened equally one of the earliest Masonic Female Collegiate Institutes in the rural southeast.  Cokesbury College is the centerpiece of the original 19th century utopian Cokesbury Community.  The Higher building and grounds are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and are maintained and managed past the Cokesbury Higher Historical and Recreational Committee.

Historic Cokesbury College

Although Cokesbury feels a bit “off the beaten path” today, information technology was once one of the most prominent communities in the upper part of South Carolina. At its peak, it was a thriving hub of education for the entire country, and many influential S Carolinians called information technology abode. From Tabernacle to Cokesbury The story of Cokesbury began when visionaries in the Tabernacle Community decided to build a new school. After much deliberation, a public meeting was held on July 4, 1824 to promote the idea of develop-ing a new village around the new school’due south location. The name of the new village: Mountain Ariel.

Join us for our 10th Annual Topiaries and Tastings Vino Walk in Uptown Greenwood.

You’ll taste some of the most exceptional wines at our local Uptown merchants while strolling among our Signature Topiary Display. This fun and lively wine walk is a Festival favorite.

Wine Tasting stops include:

• Atlantic Bay Mortgage

• Blossom Shoes and Such

• David Lindsey Clothier

• Flynn’s On Maxwell Uptown Vino & Beer

• Chief & Maxwell

• Master Street Market

• ReVamp Studio

• The Spa On Maxwell

• Sugar Bazaar

• Sweet Teas Children’s Bazaar

• Thayers

• Call up Tank on Main

• The Museum

• The Vintage Vault

• Voila Conjugal and Formal

• Wade’s on Waller

WINE WALK TICKETS: $25 in advance, $35 week of event. Includes souvenir wine glass

Tickets on Sale at Flynn’s on Maxwell Uptown Vino & Beer, 120 Maxwell Avenue, 864-223-9463 or the Greenwood SC Chamber of Commerce, 110 Phoenix Street, 864-889-9314.

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Join the states for our Inaugural Topiaries and Tastings Beer Garden.

At the Beer Garden yous’ll feel locally brewed beers from Skillful Times Brewery. This garden will feature music, finger foods, and a feel good environment to hang with old friends and make new ones.

Beer Garden Tickets: $20 in advance, $30 week of consequence. Includes souvenir beer glass

TICKETS ON SALE At present!
Stop by Greenwood SC Chamber of Commerce, 110 Phoenix Street, 864-889-9314

or
Flynn’s On Maxwell Vino & Beer, 120 Maxwell Ave, 864-223-9463

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Come join the Lakeland Beekeepers at Emerald Farm for a fun and educational day!

An observation hive will be set for you to catch a glimpse of the life of a beloved bee. Find the queen bee without the worry of getting stung! See and learn about the equipment that the beekeepers utilise in their apiary. You volition exist amazed with what these little bees can accomplish in their short life.

Questions are welcome during the event!

Join the fun, visit the farm, and ride the Emerald Farm Limited. Pick upward some honey, plants, bird houses or chiliad art too!

This effect was rescheduled for September. Please contact the Emerald City Region, AACA for more data.

Hosted past Emerald City Region, AACA
Benefits Greenwood County Veterans Memorial
Pre-registration for Vehicles – $15, Mean solar day of Show – $20

Top 20 Trophies Awarded past Pop Vote of Show Participants, Club Participation Award.  Club Judged: Longest distance, All-time Pigment, Best Interior, All-time Truck, Best Orphan, Best Vintage (Pre-WWll), Best Chevrolet, Best Mopar, All-time Ford, Best Foreign Car, Best of Show.

Registration from 9:30 a.m. – 12 noon.

Goodie bags to showtime 50 entries–first come, first served.

To register mail registration course to: Michael Johnson, 116 Crabapple Fashion, Greenwood, SC 29649.

Due to the Rain FORECAST:
Kidfest along with The Butterfly Encounter, Juried Arts & Crafts Show and Photography Exhibit will be at the James Medford Family Result Heart at Piedmont Technical Higher.
620 N Emerald Road, Greenwood, SC

Fun and Entertainment for the Whole Family!

(CANCELLED) Chalk it upward Sidewalk Chalk Art Competition
8:00 a.thou. – 10:00 a.thou., Uptown Greenwood, Oregon Ave.
All ages/categories/talent levels!

Come up Experience The Butterfly Encounter!

“Feed” and enjoy six unlike butterfly species – hundreds flying around.

The Butterfly Run across is not merely an interactive, walk-through exhibit only it likewise provides educational demonstrations. You lot and your family unit will get to encounter the lifecycle of a butterfly from egg to adult. Y’all’ll also learn how to set up a cleaved wing.

A Crowd Favorite: Wildlife Geeks, Chuck Alberding

Shows at 1:thirty p.m. & three:thirty p.m. at the Museum, 106 Master St.

Relish the
Wild fauna Geeks, Chuck Alberding,
showcasing an incredible multifariousness animals for the kids to experience and detect! Chuck introduces his entourage of mammals, snakes, reptiles, and amphibians to kids of all ages. His presentation focuses on the unique characteristics and habitat of the animals as well every bit the importance of conservation of all species. Don’t forget to join us for the rest of Kidfest at Piedmont Tech’s Medford Center that will likewise include karate demonstrations, dance performances, activities, exhibits, and face painting for your kids to enjoy.

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Join united states for one of the most fun 5K runs and 1 mile fun run!

Saturday, June 8th, 2019

Yous will commencement out from the soccer field, then keep the Capsugel/LONZA track, and and so out to the Greenwood Track to Trails and back.

5k Certified Course: Capsugel/LONZA Running Track & Greenwood Rails to Trails / Timing by: Racing Toes

$ Cash Prizes $

Entry Fee:

$25
if received past
June 1, 2019 online or by mail.

$thirty
if received
June ii-Solar day of
Event (Cash or Check just)

T-shirts guaranteed to all pre-registrants thru June i, 2019.

“Feel the Fun” at our 5K run and 1 mile fun run/walk with greenbacks prizes! The 5k starts at Lander’s soccer field, loops around the Capsugel/LONZA track, downwardly the Greenwood Rails-to-Trails and back. Our i mile walk and kids run starts and finishes on the soccer field, making a lap around the runway. T-shirts guaranteed to all pre-registrants thru June 1st.

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