Fall Crawl Cankerworm Festival
Fall Crawl 2012 - Saturday, October 27th — Midwood Park
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Our historic center city neighborhood is gearing up for its Seventh annual fall festival to celebrate Halloween for kids of all ages -- and to continue the neighborhood’s successful fight against the cankerworm infestation of our splendid tree canopy.
Fall Crawl, to be held on Saturday, October 27, begins with a costume parade for the neighborhood’s littlest goblins and ghouls followed by trunk-or-treating at Kilgo Church, sale of discounted tree banding supplies for neighborhood residents, music and food… and lots of other activities in Midwood Park.
All activities in Midwood Park throughout the day are free and open to the public – especially a stellar line-up of local musicians in the Midwood Park Amphitheatre from 1 pm until 6:30 pm, including the ever popular Plaza Midwood Family Band – back again by popular demand. Other autumn fun includes local artists and vendors, lots for the kids to do including pumpkin painting, scarecrow stuffing, inflatable obstacle course, bounce house for the children, and food and beverages for sale in the park.
FALL CRAWL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
- 9 am - noon: Treebanding supplies on sale in Midwood Park
- 11:30am Costume Parade for Plaza Midwood kids- parade begins in Midwood Park with a local marching band leading the goblins through the neighborhood
- 12:00 Noon- Trunk or Treat at Kilgo United Methodist Church
- 1 pm: Reading of "A Dasher Christmas" by author Clarkie Brwon - at the basketball court.
- 12:30pm - 5:30pm Activities in the Park
Food and beverage
Local artists and vendors
Great music
Kids activities – face painting, pumpkin painting, scarecrow stuffing, inflatable obstacle course, bounce house, and much more!
FALL CRAWL MUSIC LINEUP
at the Midwood Park Amphitheater
12:30 - 1:30
The Plaza Family Band: A group of Charlotte musicians that have collaborated to produce a Children's Music CD as a fundraiser for Plaza Presbyterian Weekday School. Mike Strauss, Hope Nichols and other neighborhood friends combine their talents to amuse and entertain all the kids in Midwood, as well as their parents and all the adults in the hood.
2:00 - 3:00
Sophie Teague: The little girl who had the courage to get up and sing at Midwood Maynia - and blew everyone away with her talent is doing an entire set by popular demand!
3:30 - 4:30 Sindy & Randy Floyd: The voice behind Billy Scott and the Prophets, Cindy and her husband Randy bring the sound of good old Beach Music and other Classics to Midwood Park.
5:00 - 6:00 The Shana Blake Band: The soulful, expressive vocals of Shana Blake and rich textures of the instrumentation fuse coherently to create a sound that's as smooth as honey, with a hint of R&B, funk, reggae, southern rock, gospel, country, jazz and the blues.
Fall crawl is presented by The Plaza Midwood Neighborhood Association and sponsored by many generous neighbors and companies; please look for them to be recognized at the event.
For vendor and sponsorship opportunities, contact Courtney Williams at Courtney.williams@edwardjones.com. For volunteer opportunities and general event information please contact Amy Martini at amypmartini@gmail.com.
