Warm weather is heating up spring festival season. Here’s a look at eight festivals happening in the area this weekend.
Also this weekend, the Flame Festival, previously held at Cherokee Farms in LaFayette, Georgia, has moved to Skull Skoals Park and Campground in Washington, Georgia, about two hours east of Atlanta.
— SouthWord Literary Festival: Now in its 40th year, this Southern Lit Alliance event is a celebration of writers originally from the South or who now live and work in the South. In various sessions Friday and Saturday at the Chattanooga Convention Center, 1 Carter Plaza, 22 visiting and local writers — Rick Bragg, Clyde Edgerton and Silas House among them — will speak about their current work individually, in interviews with other authors or as part of a panel discussion. Tickets are $45 for one day, $75 for two, with discounts for students and add-ons for tote bags and T-shirts. Registration is due by noon Friday. solitchatt.org/2023southword
(READ MORE: The SouthWord Literary Festival returns to Chattanooga)
— The Revival Music & Arts Festival: This first-time family festival takes place Friday through Sunday on a farm at 187 Old CC Road in Pikeville, Tenn. Eleven musical acts are scheduled, including the Chattanooga-based headliners: Chants in the Void, a Grateful Dead tribute band, and Randy Steele & High Cold Wind, a bluegrass band fronted by an award-winning banjo player. Art installations and community building are included during the weekend. Tickets are $150. Get more information at tinyurl.com/revivalpikeville.