AUTUMN JUBILEE

This year's 32nd annual Autumn Jubilee will be held October 1st & 2nd, 2011. Plan to join in on all the fun and activities on Bringle Ferry Road at Dan Nicholas Park in Salisbury, NC. The festival will be on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Some 55,000 plus visitors enjoy the family fun festival.

Spread out in this beautiful 450 acre park will be over 160 handcrafted crafters from throughout the southeast with their quality handmade wares. Crafts will include woodcraft, framed prints, ceramics, folk art, fabric crafts, quilts, leathercraft, bird houses, home made soaps, quilts, baby items and many more beautiful crafts.
Enjoy visiting the " Heritage Village Crafts” this is hands on demonstrations of our heritage days. There will be soap making, pottery, basket weaving, blacksmithing, slate carving, stained glass and more. You can both be entertain and shop because the crafters not only sell you unique handmade crafts, but you can actually see them being made with skills not easily found anymore.

The T.M. Stanback Outdoor Theater will be the scene of continuous stage shows from 10:30am to 6:00 pm Saturday and 10:30am to 6:00 pm on Sunday. There will be music ranging from bluegrass, beach, gospel, rock and roll, contemporary Christian and much more, bands and musicians. On Saturday, October 1st, we will start out with “Boys from the Carolinas, at 1:00 p.m. “Atlantic Grove; at 4pm “Extraordinaries”. On Sunday will start off at 10”30 with “One Road Home”, a gospel group, at 12:00p.m. “Transit”; at 1:30 p.m. “Jim Quick and Coastline” and at 4:00p.m. back by popular demand “Mustang Sally”. Between these groups “Melvis” will be performing on Saturday and Sunday.

Chow down on some of the best food when you smell the great aroma of Chicken and Dumplings, BBQ chicken plates, pork chop sandwiches, pit cooked BBQ, turkey legs, greek food, hamburgers, hot dogs, home fries, kettle corn, fried apple pies and much more plus top this great food off with homemade ice cream made from an old time hit and miss motor.

Creativity abounds in the pumpkin area, where over 1800 pumpkins will be available for children to express hidden artistic talents. There will be old timey games for children and adults on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. and don't forget the log sawing will be held again this year. On Saturday and Sunday at 3:00 p.m. the log sawing competition will once again ignite old rivalries and is sure to make some new ones. Don’t forget the many games to play in the children’s area. More will be announced at a later date.

Children and adults can enjoy the festival and park by riding three miniature trains, visiting the Hurley Train Station, riding a beautiful carousel, take a paddleboat ride or play some miniature golf and gem mining for either gems or sharks teeth. Be sure to go visit the Wildlife Adventure Center and the T.M. Stanback Petting Barn. The Carolina Puppet Theater's head puppeteers will head our children's stage this year. The Carolina Puppet Theater will have on the Children’s Stage Poly and Ester the Gabardine Sisters, lead zany, fun musical numbers that are interactive an lively. This is the chance for the “kids” to become stars as they are invited up to perform along. The music, skits, and puppetry are family oriented to be enjoyed by adults as well as children. Then the children can visit our Children's Area where they can have their face painted by our great artist
and enjoy magical performances by Buddy Farnan and his assistant, you will be saying, “how did he do that”. Back this year will be the Knightly Order of the Flat Lux, this is a fight a Knight Competition, demo’s and a Medieval market. Much more will be in the children’s area.

Don't miss the fun and excitement of Autumn Jubilee. Free admission. If you don't want to walk, ride the tractor and wagon shuttles, which are free, and also van rides are free for the handicap. Come and enjoy a fun day at the park with the family.

Sponsored by: Cheerwine, Carolina Medical NorthEast, Time Warner Cable, Bojangles, Rowan Regional Medical Center, Dixie Home Crafters, Bath Fitters and Gerry Wood Auto Group

No Pets, Bikes, Rollerblades, Skates or Skateboards, Shuttles available, Handicapped parking and rides available.