Williamston Spring Water Festival This Weekend
Thursday, August 26, 2021 at 5:38AM Greg Wilson/Anderson Observer
The 40th Annual Spring Water Festival is coming this weekend with music, arts, children's activites and more. Hours for the festival this year will be 6-10 p.m. on Friday and 9:15 a.m.-20 p.m. on Saturday.
The event celebrates the founding of the town that was once a popular tourist destination, which included the state’s largest hotel, drawing people from across the state to enjoy the benefits of a mineral spring which reportedly had medicinal qualities. The spring around which the town was built still flows, offering visitors a cool, refreshing drink of spring water in Mineral Spring Park, one of the oldest public parks in the country.
The two-day festival will feature free kids activities, amusement rides, more than 70 business and craft vendors, antique and classic auto show, live music and other special attractions.
The festival also offers a variety of performers on the park’s center stage and the amphitheater stage.
The festivals kick off Friday evening with live music by Blue Sky Blues Band and the Carolina Coast Band. Ten food vendors will be on hand for food and refreshments.
The Saturday opening ceremony is set for 9:15 a.m. Music lovers are invited to bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy a day of music which will include Easton Gowan, Andrew Crawford, Marvin King, Odyssey Band and Show and the Brooks Dixon Band.
New this year will be a golf cart parade. Amusement rides, an expanded area of free children’s games and activities.
The festival will again feature one of the Upstate’s largest antique and classic auto shows, organized by the Williamston Fire Department and featuring more than 100 vehicles. Rides on the restored 1936 firetruck, a festival favorite, will also be available.
For more information, visit http://www.springwaterfestival.com/