Mountain Music/Arts Day Festival at Vogel

If you love music - old time mountain, bluegrass, folk and gospel music we encourage you to attend Mountain Music/Arts Festival at Vogel State Park on Saturday, September 8, 2007. Music groups are Baldwin & Haney, Jordan Harrison, The Bennie Shook Family, Ed Teague & Friends, Buck & Nelson and Phil Tanner & The Skillet Lickers. Crafters' and demonstrators' exhibits will open at 10:00 a.m. Music will begin at 11:00 a.m. with the last performance beginning at 4:00 p.m. Crafters will be displaying and selling quality crafts. Spinning, stained glass, basket weaving, painting, tin punching and woodcarving will be demonstrated the entire day.

Vogel State Park is located 11 miles south of Blairsville, Ga., on Hwy. 129. There's something for all ages at Vogel's Mountain Music/Arts Day Festival. The setting in the mountains overlooking Lake Trahlyta is beautiful, with Blood Mountain, the highest peak in Georgia on the Appalachian Trail, in the background. The fees for the festival will be adults $5.00, children 12 and under $2.00. No Pets are allowed. There will be a $3.00 park pass fee per vehicle upon entering the park. Shuttle service will be available from distant parking areas at no additional fee. The Vogel Volunteers, Inc., will provide food concessions along with funnel cakes. There will also be a raffle for a Union County Historical Throw/blanket. All proceeds are used for park programming. For further information, please contact David Foot, Park Manager or Randy Gambrell, Assistant Park Manager at 706- 745-2628. Visit our website at www.gastateparks. org our email address is vogel@alltel. net