Calendar

Your guide to event-related travel in the Southeast

GEORGIA

Watkinsville — Georgia Pottery Invitational, Aug. 25-Sept. 13, features food, live jazz, art exhibits and sales, workshops, demonstration and lectures. www.ocaf.com.

Lookout Mountain — Rock City’s Summer Music Weekends, Sept. 4, features food, walking tours, birds of prey shows and bluegrass and country music. www.seerockcity. com/summermusic.

Jekyll Island — Shrimp & Grits Festival, Sept. 15-17, features food, arts and crafts, cooking competitions and live music. www.jekyllisland.com/shrimpgrits.

Flintstone — Blowing Springs Farm, Sept. 29-Oct. 29, features the Enchanted Maize, cow train

rides, petting zoo and more. www. blowingspringsfarmc.com.

FLORIDA

Panama City Beach —Schooners Lobster Festival & Tournament, Sept. 11-17, features large, freshly caught lobsters, a sandsculpting contest, diving and a feast. www.schooners.com/ events/lobsterfestival.htm.

Pensacola — Seafood Festival, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, features live music, arts and crafts vendors, food and more. www.fiestaoffiveflags.org.

Port St. Joe — Scallop and Music Festival, Oct. 6-7, features scallops, other food, arts and crafts, children’s activities and live music. www.scallopfestfl.org.

Gainesville — Downtown Festival & Art Show, Nov. 11-12, features 250 artists, live music, food and

children’s activities. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.

ALABAMA

Eva — Frontier Days, Sept. 23-30, features car and tractor shows, craft shows, music, contests, food and games. www.evafrontierdays.weebly.com.

Athens — Grease Festival, Sept. 29-30, features fried foods, competitions, music and more. www. athensgreasefestival.com.

KENTUCKY

Bowling Green — Ice Cream and a Moovie, every other weekend through Sept. 16, features homemade ice cream, family friendly movies and self-guided tours of the dairy barn. www.chaneysdairybarn.com. Bardstown — Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Sept. 11-17, features live music, dance, cigars, bourbon tastings and a gala. www.kybourbonfestival.com.

Louisville — Bourbon & Beyond Festival, Sept. 23-24, features concerts, Kentucky bourbons and food creations from top chefs. www.bourbonandbeyond.com.

LOUISIANA

Morgan City — Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, Aug. 31Sept. 4, features food, livemusic, traditional events and children’s activities. www.shrimpandpetroleum.org.

MISSISSIPPI

Pascagoula — Mississippi Gulf Coast Blues & Heritage Festival, Sept. 9, features, live music, food and cultural exhibits. www. msgulfcoastbluesfest.com.

NORTH CAROLINA

Clayton — Harvest & Music Fest, Sept. 13-17, features a barbecue cook-off, craft vendors, art demonstrations, food trucks, acar show, carnival rides and more. www.claytonchamber.com/ pages/harvest-festival.

Winston Salem — Texas Pete Culinary Arts Festival, Sept. 16-17, features regional and national chefs, live music and more. www. visitwinstonsalem.com.

Mount Airy — Mayberry Days, Sept. 21-24, features concerts, games, movies, a parade, and meet-and-greets with actors from “The Andy Griffith Show.” www.mayberrydays.org.

SOUTH CAROLINA

York — Summerfest, Aug. 26, features a craft fair, food, 5k and 10k runs, classic car shows, train rides, zip lines, waterball, health fair, demonstrations, live music, contests and children’s activities. www.yorksummerfest.com.

TENNESSEE

Lebanon —Wilson County Fair, through Aug. 26, features concerts, rides, tractor and mule pulls, demolition derbies, livestock shows, food vendors, arts and crafts. www.wilsoncoun- tyfair.net.

Caryville — Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival, Sept. 30, features live music, juried art and quilt show, food and children’s activities. www.louiebluie.org.

Centerville — National Banana Pudding Festival, Oct. 7-8, features food, music, puppets, storytelling, live entertainment, rides, arts and crafts and a pudding cook-off. www.bananapuddingfest.org.

VIRGINIA

Alexandria —“Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon” exhibit at the Donald W. Reynolds Museum, through Sept. 30, 2018, features artwork, furnishings, archaeological discoveries, documents and interactive displays. www.mountvernon.org. Virginia Beach —FunkFest Beach Party, Aug. 25-26, features funk music, food, vendors and dance contests. www.beachstreetusa.com.