From: Hammond, Ken [Ken.Hammond@chron.com] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:14 PM To: guy@cybersquad.com Subject: September festivals, Texas -----Original Message----- From: unknown@libsrv01.magichron [mailto:unknown@libsrv01.magichron] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:00 PM To: Hammond, Ken Subject: 58072 -ACCESS- 3683357 -UPD- 20030824 -UPT- 1734 -STAT- A -PAPER- Houston Chronicle -HEAD- SEPTEMBER FESTIVALS / Gators and shrimp, hummers and doves -DAY- SUN -DATE- 20030824 -SECTION- TEXAS MAGAZINE -PAGE- 6 -EDITION- 2 STAR -ZONE- -BYLINE- -CREDIT- Staff -WHONOTE- -ENOTE- A listing of Texas festivals appears monthly in Texas Magazine. Festival information and color photographs for October festivals must be received by Sept. 1. Information must include a phone number for the public and admission costs. Send to Festivals, Texas Magazine, P.O. Box 4260, Houston, TX 77210. Fax 713-354-3501. Or e-mail information and high-resolution photos to festivals.features@chron.com. -DATELINE- -CAPTION- -ART- Photos: 1. Firefighter Justin Stewart helps Ethan Bell, 4, try out a firetruck at Grapefest in Grapevine (color); 2. Festa Italiana brings Italian-flavored fun and culture to Galveston (color); 3. Texas Gatorfest is Sept. 12-14 in Anahuac (color); 4. Cowboys compete in the World Championship Ranch Rodeo. The first Bayou Bend Ranch Rodeo is scheduled Sept. 13-14 (color, p. 10); 5. String Cheese Incident's Michael Kang performs at Austin City Limits Music Festival (color, p. 10); 6. Radio-controlled aircraft will compete in Monaville during the B-17 Gathering and Big Bird Fly-In (color, p. 11); 7. Bill Geissler serves shrimp during the Shrimporee Festival in Clear Lake (color, p. 11); 8. Koda Duren, 4, rides in the Stick Horse Rodeo at the Texas State Forest Festival in Lufkin (color, p. 11); 9. Central Texas Sounds will perform at the Hospice Brenham German Festival on Sept. 6 (color, p. 2) -PHOTOG- 1. Mark Rogers / Associated Press, 5. Sung Park / Austin American-Statesman, 7. Kim Christensen / Special to the Chronicle, 8. Joel Andrews / The Lufkin Daily News -CORRECT- -COLUMN- SPECIAL AFFECTIONS -CATEGORY- -TYPE- -KEYS- Texas Events -EKEYS- -PROC- edtljw -ELECTION- -RSEC- 0 -SLUG- Sept.03Fests.Shoup -LENGTH- 45 -LEAD- KIMBLE KOUNTY KOW KICK -TEXT- KIMBLE KOUNTY KOW KICK When: Sept. 1. Where: Junction. Contact: 915-446-3190. Admission: free. Held at Junction City Park, the 34th annual arts-and-crafts show will include a Little Miss and Mister Kimble County contest, a fiddling contest, games, food and rides. ... HOSPICE BRENHAM GERMAN FESTIVAL When: Sept. 6. Where: Brenham. Contact: 979-821-2266. Admission: $12, $5 ages 12 and younger. The festival will feature food booths, children's games and music by Die Musikkapelle Markt Erkheim from Germany, plus Music Masters and Central Texas Sounds. ... HERITAGE FESTIVAL When: Sept. 6. Where: Santa Fe. Contact: 409-925-8558; www.santafetexaschamber.com. Admission: free. Held at Runge Park, events include music, entertainment, a barbecue cook-off, motorcycle rally/poker run, historical displays, food, crafts, a beauty pageant, talent show, games, horse-shoe tournament, raffle and silent auction. ... RED RIVER COUNTY STEW COOK-OFF AND AUCTION When: Sept. 6. Where: Clarksville. Contact: 903-427-2645; www.red-river.net. Admission: free. Organizations and individuals compete to make Red River County's best pot of stew. Stew will be sold by the bowl; also for sale will be cookies, pies and cakes. Cakes, quilts and handcrafted furniture will be auctioned. All proceeds benefit the annual county fair, Sept. 17-20. ... GRAPEFEST When: Sept. 11-14. Where: Grapevine. Contact: 800-457-6338; www.grapevinetexasusa.com. Admission: free until 5 p.m. Sept. 12; $6 adults, $3 ages 6-12 and 62 and older; $10 weekend pass. The 17th annual wine festival, showcasing the Texas wine industry, will offer a GrapeStomp competition, wines from 24 Texas wineries, a children's area, a tennis classic, carnival, antiques, four stages of music, and the People's Wine Tasting Classic. ... HUMMER/BIRD CELEBRATION When: Sept. 11-14. Where: Rockport. Contact: 800-826-6441; www.rockport-fulton.org. Admission: varies by event. The 15th annual event pays tribute to the ruby-throated hummingbird and is scheduled during its fall migration along the Gulf Coast. Activities include lectures, workshops, field trips, hummingbird banding, bus and boat tours, and a self-guided tour of public and private hummingbird gardens. Featured speaker is nature writer/photographer Connie Toops. ... FESTA ITALIANA When: Sept. 12-13. Where: Galveston. Contact: 409-797-5157. Admission: $6. Celebrating the sights, sounds and smells of Italy, the event kicks off Sept. 12 with a spaghetti dinner ($6), entertainment by the Tarantella Dancers, a silent auction and a poker tournament ($25 entry). Saturday's events include food, music, dancing, boccie ball competitions, grape-stomping and Italian karaoke contests. ... FABRIC OF OUR CULTURES QUILT SHOW When: Sept. 12-13. Where: Victoria. Contact: 361-572-2787. Admission: $4. The 13th annual quilt show, fiber-art exhibit and marketplace will feature more than 140 quilt and fiber-art entries, demonstrations, vendors, educational exhibits and kids' activities. ... TEXAS GATORFEST When: Sept. 12-14. Where: Anahuac. Contact: 409-267-4190; www.texasgatorfest.com. Admission: $6, $3 students and seniors. The Alligator Capital of Texas' annual event at Historic Fort Anahuac Park, coincides with the opening of alligator season. The fest celebrates the alligator and its wetlands habitat with an alligator roundup, live alligator displays, alligator products, pageant, bike tour, motorcycle poker run, carnival and airboat rides, a petting zoo, three stages of entertainment, a beer garden and crafts. Prior to the festival Sept. 5-7, a barbecue cook-off and dance will crown the "King of the Marsh" alligator-cooking team. ... SHRIMPOREE When: Sept. 12-14. Where: Aransas Pass. Contact: 800-633-3028; www.aransaspass.org. Admission: varies by event. A cooking competition, international-beer sampling, shrimp-peeling contest, carnival rides, entertainment by trick-rope artists, clowns, Frisbee dogs and hypnotists and 15 musical acts including Rotel and the Hot Tomatoes, Asleep at the Wheel and Rick Trevino are scheduled for the 55th annual shrimp festival. ... STAGECOACH DAYS When: Sept. 13. Where: Anderson. Contact: 936-873-2633. Admission: $4, $2.50 ages 12 and younger. Fanthorp Inn State Historical Park will host this event featuring stagecoach rides, tours of the inn, dulcimer music, cowboy tales and poetry. ... PAN JAM STEEL DRUM FESTIVAL When: Sept. 13. Where: Kemah. Contact: 281-334-1871; www.panjamfestival.com. Admission: free. The third annual festival kicks off with a morning parade with grand marshal Ellie Mannette of Trinidad, the "father of the modern-day steel drum," followed by performances by North Harris College Steel Band, University of Houston's PANtagonists, the Islanders, Steeltones, Water's Edge, Steel Vibrations and Texas Tide. Also exhibits and silent and live auctions. ... LEGENDS OF WESTERN SWING When: Sept. 13. Where: Navasota. Contact: 979-779-2286. Admission: $20. The 23rd annual Western swing show and dance will feature music by Clyde Brewer and the River Road Boys with special guests Curly Hollingsworth, George Uptmor, Herb Remington and Leon Rausch. Barbecue buffet included. ... FIESTAS PATRIAS When: Sept. 13. Where: Richmond. Contact: 281-342-6478; www.fortbendmuseum.org. Admission: $5 adults, $4 ages 62 and older, $3 ages 5-15. Fort Bend Museum will host this annual celebration of Mexico's independence from Spain with live music, mariachi bands, watermelon and jalapeno-eating contests, a puppet show, car show, food, crafts and Fiestas Patrias queen coronation. ... FINE RIDES AUTOFEST When: Sept. 13. Where: Wallis. Contact: 979-478-6712. Admission: free. Enjoy food, '50s music and cars in this open car show featuring rods, customs, antiques and classics, with more than 25 trophies to be awarded. ... CAT SPRING ANTIQUES FESTIVAL When: Sept. 13-14. Where: Cat Spring. Contact: 979-865-5618. Admission: $4; free for ages 12 and younger. More than 55 antiques dealers from the South and Midwest will offer formal and country furniture, vintage silver, ceramics, textiles, quilts, glassware, estate jewelry and garden furnishings at the 18th annual festival at Agricultural Hall. Also, a farmers market, plant and herb sale and home-cooked food. ... BAYOU BEND RANCH RODEO When: Sept. 13-14. Where: Houston. Contact: 281-463-6650; www.hfrc.org. Admission: $14; $20 for weekend pass; free for ages 11 and younger. Houston Farm and Ranch Club will host its first ranch rodeo in which Texas ranch hands will compete in ranch-bronc riding, wild-cow milking, team penning and branding. Rodeo sanctioned by the Working Ranch Cowboys Association. ... WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR When: Sept. 17-20. Where: Brenham. Contact: 979-836-3695; www.brenhamtexas.com. Admission: $7 adults, $3 ages 6-12; $15 season pass. The 135th annual fair will feature entertainment, rodeos, a carnival, country crafts, food, livestock and poultry auctions, and exhibits. ... THETA CHARITY ANTIQUES SHOW When: Sept. 18-21. Where: Houston. Contact: 713-622-3560; www.thetaantiquesshow.com. Admission: $10. More than 50 dealers from across the country and Europe will bring their collections of antiques and fine arts to the George R. Brown Convention Center. ... LONESOME DOVE FEST When: Sept. 19-20. Where: Karnes City. Contact: 830-780-3112; www.lonesomedovefest.com. Admission: $3, free for ages 11 and younger. The annual event, on the opening weekend of dove-hunting season, celebrates traditions and the outdoor lifestyle of South Texas with a parade, youth activities, exhibits, barbecue, games, raffles, crafts, and presentations on wildlife conservation, land management, hunter safety and ethics. ... AUSTIN CITY LIMITS MUSIC FESTIVAL When: Sept. 19-21. Where: Austin. Contact: 512-475-9077; www.aclfestival.com. Admission: $70 three-day pass. The music festival brings the magic of the public-television series outside the studio and into Austin's Zilker Park. Artists include REM, Ween, Pat Green, Lucinda Williams, Steve Winwood, Los Lobos, Yo La Tengo, Asleep at the Wheel, Rosanne Cash and Yonder Mountain String Band. ... BAYFEST When: Sept. 19-21. Where: Corpus Christi. Contact: 361-887-0868; www.bayfesttexas.com Admission: $7; $2 seniors; $1 ages 7-12; three-day pass $15. The festival celebrates the cultural and ethnic diversity of the region with five stages of music, art and entertainment, including U.S. Navy parachute team, carnival, crafts, games and fireworks. ... B-17 GATHERING AND BIG BIRD FLY-IN When: Sept. 19-21. Where: Monaville. Contact: 281-498-7935. Admission: $5; free for ages 11 and younger. Radio-controlled "big birds" and bombers will migrate south to Bomber Field for this 15th annual event in which pilots compete for awards. Competing aircraft are scale replicas of real aircraft. ... PLANO BALLOON FESTIVAL When: Sept. 19-21. Where: Plano. Contact: 972-867-7566; www.planoballoonfest.org. Admission: $4. More than 100 hot-air balloons participate in the annual event that includes a parachute-team exhibition, radio-controlled model-airplane exhibition, festival market, fireworks, kids' activities, food and music. ... SHRIMPOREE FESTIVAL When: Sept. 20. Where: Clear Lake. Contact: 281-326-1142. Admission: free. Space Center Rotary Club is holding its 30th annual Shrimporee and benefit auction at Clear Lake Park, featuring children's activities, crafts, live and silent auctions, and a shrimp/fish plate ($15). ... CHILI FEST AND COOK-OFF When: Sept. 20. Where: Humble. Contact: 281-540-7442; www.rstex.com/chili/. Admission: $5, $3 ages 7-13. Admission includes all the chili you can sample at the second annual cook-off. Humble cooks will be judged on best-tasting chili and showmanship. Activities include live music, art contest, pie and cake contest, games, puppet show and exhibits of cars, firetrucks and motorcycles. ... EDOM FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS When: Sept. 20-21. Where: Edom. Contact: 903-852-3897. Admission: free. The juried art show will feature sculptors, woodworkers, a furniture maker, weavers, jewelers, painters and potters. Harpists will perform in the art show, and stage musicians will play country, folk, oldies rock 'n' roll and gospel music. Plus food, a children's area and a sheep-to-shawl demonstration of wool. ... CITYWIDE GARAGE SALE When: Sept. 20-21. Where: Needville. Contact: 979-793-7778. Admission: free. Residents of Needville will participate in a citywide garage sale. ... TEXAS RICE FESTIVAL When: Sept. 20-Oct. 4. Where: Winnie. Contact: 409-296-4404; www.texasricefestival.org. Admission: $6; $4 ages 6-18; free for ages 65 and older and 5 and younger. In celebration of the rice harvest, festivities begin with a horse show and rice run Sept. 20-21; and the Fajita Jackpot and BBQ Cook-off, queen coronation, a dance and gospel singing Sept. 26-27. Festivities beginning Oct. 1 include a carnival, street dances, rice exhibits, food, livestock show, rice-cooking contest, quilt exhibit, crafts and music by Django Walker, Jerry Jeff Walker, Roger Creager, Wayne Toups, Rotel and the Hot Tomatoes, Reckless Kelly and Charlie Robison. ... TEXAS STATE FOREST FESTIVAL When: Sept. 24-28. Where: Lufkin. Contact: 936-634-6644. Admission: $1 Sept. 24; $2 Sept. 25; $5 adults and $3 ages 12 and younger Sept. 27-28. The Angelina County Exposition Center will be transformed into a forestland arena for a lumberjack show, East Texas cheerleading championships, gospel fest, Texas championship wrestling, martial-arts competition, exotic-animal petting zoo, alligator show, children's festival and live music. ... LONE STAR MOTORCYCLE RALLY When: Sept. 25-28. Where: Galveston. Contact: 888-425-4753; www.lonestarrally.com. Admission: free. More than 20,000 bikers are expected to attend this islandwide rally featuring monster-truck rides ($5), lil' hawg races, fishing tournament, poker runs, water-balloon slingshot championships, Wall of Death at Menard Park ($5), custom-bike show, field-event finals and entertainment by more than 30 bands. ... SCHOOL DAZE When: Sept. 26. Where: Humble. Contact: 713-664-9033; www.hgms.org. Admission: free. Sponsored by the Houston Gem & Mineral Society, the event, designed for students and teachers, offers interactive demonstrations including excavating techniques in a simulated fossil hunt; mineral, fossil and gem exhibits; demonstrations of jewelry-making techniques and free identification of rocks, fossils, minerals and gems. Held in conjunction with the society's Gem, Jewelry, Mineral and Fossil Show, Sept. 26-28, at Humble Convention Center. Admission: $5; $3 teachers, students and seniors; free for ages 11 and younger. ... RENEWABLE ENERGY ROUNDUP AND GREEN LIVING FAIR When: Sept. 26-28. Where: Fredericksburg. Contact: 512-326-3391; www.theroundup.org. Admission: $8; $16 for three-day pass. The event features booths by providers of renewable energy, green building and remodeling, organic gardening and electric vehicles, presentations on rainwater collection, home-power systems, straw-bale construction, rock climbing, laser tag, organic-wine tasting and music. ... GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL When: Sept. 26-27. Where: Wimberley. Contact: 512-847-3909; www.hillcountrysun.com. Admission: free. The 25th annual festival, held at EmilyAnn Theatre, will feature bluegrass by the Bailey Family, Faye Yates and Blue Creek on Sept. 26, and traditional, Southern and contemporary gospel by Wayne Oquin and Vanessa Beaumont on Sept. 27. ... HARVEST When: Sept. 27. Where: Big Spring State Park. Contact: 915-263-4931. Admission: $2 ages 13 and older. Enjoy a hayride and guided tour around the mountain along the 200-foot bluff of Edwards Plateau and learn about the park's historical and geological characteristics. ... MOODY COTTON HARVEST FESTIVAL When: Sept. 27. Where: Moody. Contact: 254-853-2460; www.moodytexas.com. Admission: free. The fifth annual event will include a parade, entertainment, food, games, crafts, pie and cake contests and quilt show. ... DAVY CROCKETT FALL FESTIVAL When: Sept. 27. Where: Ozona. Contact: 325-392-3737; www.ozona.com/crockettcounty. Admission: $1. Held at Crockett County Fair Park, the festival will offer children's games, carriage rides, train rides, crafts, food, the Lions Club Junior Livestock Rodeo and an evening street dance ($6). ... FALL FIRE FEST When: Sept. 27. Where: Smithville. Contact: 512-321-1318. Admission: free. This event at Riverbend Park will teach parents and kids what to do in case of a wildfire near their home. Volunteer firefighters will demonstrate equipment. Proceeds benefit Bastrop County volunteer fire departments to help purchase equipment. ... HERITAGE DAYS/LONGHORN ROD RUN When: Sept. 27-28. Where: Old Town Spring. Contact: 800-653-8696; www.oldtownspringtx.com. Admission: free. More than 300 vintage cars will be on display along the streets while their owners compete for awards and prizes during the town's heritage holiday. ... HARVEST FESTIVAL When: Sept. 27-28. Where: Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historical Park. Contact: 936-878-2213; www.birthplaceoftexas.com. Admission: $4 adults; $2 students. The Barrington Living History Farm steps back in time to harvest crops and process grains and fibers using 1850s harvesting techniques. ... WENDISH FEST When: Sept. 28. Where: Serbin. Contact: 979-366-2441. Admission: free. The Texas Wendish Heritage Society will host its 15th annual festival featuring tours of St. Paul Lutheran Church, performances by German dance groups Trachtentanzgruppe Zeissig and Blasorchester Konigswartha, Wendish Easter-egg-decorating, noodle-making, sausage-stuffing, blacksmithing and children's events. -END- ====================================================== This e-mail message is intended only for the personal use of the recipients(s) named above. If you are not an intended recipient, you may not review, copy or distribute this message. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the Houston Chronicle Postmaster (postmaster@chron.com) immediately by e-mail and delete the original message. ======================================================