Antique Festival returns next week
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Visitors to downtown Clinton’s annual fall Clinch River Antique Festival crowd Market Street during last year’s event. This year’s festival is planned for Friday and Satuday, Oct. 4-5. - G. Chambers Williams III
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Street vendors are usually plentiful during the annual fall Clinch River Antique Festival held in Historic Downtown Clinton annually. This is a scene on Market Street from last year’s event. - G. Chambers Williams III
Coming up next week will be the 23rd-annual fall Clinch River Antique Festival in downtown Clinton, scheduled for Friday and Saturday.
Sponsored by the Historic Downtown Clinton organization, the festival will begin at noon Friday (Oct. 4) and run until 8 p.m.
On Saturday, it will resume at 9 a.m. and continue until 4 p.m.
Featured will be live music and other entertainment, street vendors, food trucks and trailers, food demonstration, and special promotions in Clinton’s downtown stores.
Festival events primarily take place on Main, Market and Cullom streets in the historic shopping district, and Market Street will be blocked to vehicular traffic both days.
There will be more than 90 vendors on hand, selling a variety of new and used merchandise, artisan goods, food and more, along with craft and cooking demonstrations and other activities.
“Easily our biggest event of the year, with hundreds of antique vendors lining Market Street, this year will be the biggest yet,” the Historic Downtown Clinton group says on its website. “It’s the perfect way to kick off the fall season.”
Thousands of people are expected to attend, with many coming to see Clinton from out of town for the first time.
Among artisans already signed up for the event are Amanns Gothic, Artworks by K Roberts, Bad Chicks Smithing, Belfire, Briteyes Crafts, Claj Pens, Copper Crafter, Creations by Penelope, Darts Custom, Garden to Gourmet Goodness, Goofy Goat Soap, Gypsy Moon Leather, Handedness, Happy Hollow Photography, Jewelry by Renee, Jodi Hartman Art, Joy Chooser Designs, Just Horsin’ Around, Kitsch Candle & Coaster, Laurel Browning Art, Laurie Latham, Liv’s Stained Glass, Lois Trader Art, Mama Bear Sweet Treats, Open Kiln, Pines & Needles TN, Rabo Design, Renee’s Baked Delights, Retrotherapy, Riverbend Candle Co., Robin Buchanan, Scottish Blessings Farm, Signed Cricket, Simple Wish Creations, SJN Crafts, Spark & Saw Crafts, Spring Street Farm, The Johnston Ventures, The Wonderful Wizard of Art, Thoughtful Paws Co., Treats & Chill, Tree Lovers Co., and Valerie Pearce Studio.
Food vendors will include Bailey’s Beverage Bar, Doug’s Boiled Peanuts, Drink Smooth, Good Hombres, Hamock’s, Lions Club. Little Bird Macarons, Nut Hut, PopNotch Kettlecorn, Rainbo Funnel Cakes & Shaved Ice, Rhyno’s Roadside, Shirley’s Boy Country Cooking, Traveling Tom’s Coffee, and Waffley Good.
Live entertainment is being lined up for both days, and will include the groups 323 North Main, Fountain City Ramblers, The Singletons, Evie Fiddles, Redd & The Paper Flowers, and The Tenos.
Downtown merchants will be open and stocked with some specials offered just for the festival weekend.
Parking is available in the Commerce Street parking lot, one block west of Market Street.
More information can be found at HistoricDowntownClinton.org.