The Old Town Association, Bonnie Wallsh Associates LLC, Brown & Brown Marketing and Dyer Hart Productions are pleased to announce a brand new and exciting festival to be held in Old Town, Rock Hill. Experience South Carolina Fest will take place on Saturday, September 1, 2012 from 4:00pm-9:30pm along Main Street in Rock Hill.
Experience South Carolina Fest will excite the senses & highlight the rich diversity of the music, food, people and the culture of South Carolina. The festival will come alive with the sounds of South Carolina from the Beach Music that will evoke a summer night's shagging at the beach to R&B representing the region as well as Gospel music. Confirmed entertainment at the festival will include Plair, Frontline and Freedom Temple Gospel Choir.
In addition, you can enjoy the tastes of South Carolina's regional cuisine representing key areas of the State. Fried fish, barbecue, fried chicken and turkey, sausage gumbo, po' boy sandwiches, corn bread, peach cobbler, red velvet cake and assorted other Southern specialties are all on the menu along with South Carolina Craft Beers, and Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka.
The Old Town Market will be an area at the festival where local farmers will sell their produce and local artisans will be selling their handmade art & crafts.
Michael Smalls from Hilton Head Island will be creating and selling Gullah Sweetgrass baskets and Ernest Lee, one of Columbia's most prominent artists, will be displaying and selling his Chicken Man paintings.
Participants will appreciate all the best South Carolina has to offer at the South Carolina Association of Tourism Regions booth at the festival.
And of course there will be plenty of activities for children a Kidz Zone with inflatables.
The festival is free to the public and everyone can feel a part of the lively festival celebrating South Carolina in the beautiful "Old Town District" of Rock Hill.
Experience South Carolina is planned to coincide with the start of the 2012 Democratic National Convention when people will be in the area from all over the Country. We will be welcoming them to South Carolina and celebrating the best the State has to offer.
The event is being produced by Dyer Hart Productions, Bonnie Wallsh Associates LLC and Brown & Brown Marketing (all local promoters) in partnership with The Old Town Association. Linda Dyer Hart is a resident of Tega Cay, SC, Carlondo Brown is a Rock Hill resident and Bonnie Wallsh is a resident of Charlotte. Contact: Linda Dyer Hart at 803-802-1678 or dyerhart@hotmail.com.
