Sweetcorn Blues Festival
Over
50,000 ears of fresh sweet corn, sidewalk sales, arts, crafts, flea
market, and the best blues bands in central Illinois await you at
the 20th annual Sweet Corn Blues Festival in Uptown Normal August
23 and 24, 2008. Previously called Cornfest, the festival kicks
off at 10:30 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday and ends at 6 p.m. on
Saturday and whenever we run out of corn (usually about 4 p.m.)
on Sunday.
The sweet corn is harvested fresh each day from the field and is available fresh-cooked and buttered or un-husked by the dozen. Uptown Normal restaurants as well as specialty food vendors provide all kinds of goodies to compliment your fresh cooked sweet corn. There is no charge to attend the festival.
$3/dozen for unhusked ears or .$50/ear, fresh cooked and
buttered.
ENTERTAINMENT--Stage on North Street,
near Normal Theater
Saturday, August 23
1030 – 11:15 Sugar Creek Cloggers
11:30 – 12:30 Gamma Phi
Circus
1:00 - 2:30 Joe Zaklan Band
3:00 - 4:30 Matthew
Curry w/ Bill Porter & Friends
5:00 - 6:30 Hip Pocket
Sunday, August 24
11:00 – 12:30 Barb
Hamilton Band
1:00 – 2:30 Haley Crouch with Roling’s-Tones
3:00 – 4:30 Billy Galt & The Blues Deacons
This event is sponsored by the Uptown Normal Business Association, WGLT-FM and the Town of Normal. For further information, call (309) 454 9557 or email swesterdahl@normal.org.