Once in a Blue Choo Choo guests can mingle among the sculptures, such as Heinz Aeschilmann’s “Composer,” before and after the train ride.An event benefiting Chattanooga’s Sculpture Fields will set the mood with color Saturday night.
The highlight of Once in a Blue Choo Choo is a four-course dinner aboard a Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum train. But guests will be counting the myriad ways blue hues sets the scene.
With any luck, the skies will be their brightest blue as proceedings get underway at 5:30 p.m. at the sculpture park, the largest in the Southeast.
Within its 33 acres are nearly 50 large-scale sculptures, 1.5 miles of walking paths and 100 trees in a Commemorative Forest. The grassy expanse is regularly used for artist demonstrations, yoga, kite flying, music and dance performances.
This is the sixth year for this “all aboard for sculpture” fundraiser with the TVRM. Guests are invited to don their favorite blue ensembles for the one-of-a-kind event, which not only features décor in an array from the blue spectrum, but also blues and old-time jazz music by Gino Fanelli, whose music has been described as the kind you might hear if you hopped a train from Detroit to New Orleans.