Downtown Brooklet will once again be a hub for fun, family and all things peanut as the 35th annual Brooklet Peanut Festival is set for Saturday, Sept. 21.
The festival kicks off with a parade at 10 a.m., along with arts and crafts, food and amusement vendors. Beginning at 11:30 a.m., there will be live entertainment.
The Blue Steele Band will close out the festival with a show starting at 6 p.m. and ending at 8 p.m.
Tractor races continue to be one of the most entertaining parts of the festival. Tractors have always been an attraction at the festival and the “mystic machines” will be featured in several races on Warnock St.
The kiddie pedal tractor race, which features age divisions, will be first at noon, with the famous slow tractor race to follow at 12:30 p.m.
The Brooklet Community Development Association organizes the Annual Brooklet Peanut Festival each year. The Association is made up of volunteers and meets the last Monday of each month at the Randy Newman Community Center on the festival grounds.
For more information about the Community Association or the Peanut Festival, contact Ellen Perkins at ellenperkins1@hotmail.com
Entertainment schedule
- 11:30 a.m. – Southeast Bulloch High School Band
- Noon – Third Infantry Division Band
- 12:30 p.m. – Jeremy Thomas
- 1 p.m. – Good Time Buddies Band
- 2 p.m. – Jazmine Wilson
- 2:30 p.m. – Good Time Buddies Band
- 3 p.m. – Jackson Cannady
- 3:430 p.m. – Red Wing (Terry Parr, Krenson Knipher, Bill Jones)
- 4:15 p.m. – Elvie – Mike Riddle & Michael Burgess
- 6-8 p.m. – Blue Steele Band