Food Games | FallsFest Welcomes Autumn With Music, Food, Games
True, you’re more expected to find a rustic than a Highlander ’round these parts.
Or horseshoe throwing instead of a great ol’ caber toss.
And you’re really expected to find blue jeans instead of kilts, chicken-fried beef instead of haggis, and an oil siren over a bagpipe.
Thankfully, you’ll find a felicitous melding of both at FallsFest, forward is to 26th year on Lucy Park currently and Saturday.
The ushering-in-of-fall festival, a celebratory in memory to the great outdoor and the city’s parks and other immature spaces, is introducing its initial Highlander Games on Saturday.
This Scottish-inspired contest revolves around jaunty competitions, when large guys with gumption and a couple of muscles are expected to toss a tree trunk. Like the Highland games they’re modeled after, eminent for their “heavy events,” the FallsFest Highlander Games moreover will assessment competitors’ strength in a Tough-Man Competition that’s open to a few weight classes, and not only for men.
“They are having a women’s section and are moreover going to have things for kids to do that are free,” mentioned Tammy Robertson, FallsFest co-director with Krystal Ross.
The Highlander Games programmed so far add the spindle press for reps, Braemar stone, max deceased lift, weight for distance, farmers travel and weight for height.
Robertson added, “We’re anticipating it will be an annual event.”
It’s expected to unquestionably be a fun event.
“Some people will be obviously wearing kilts to it (the games),” mentioned Tanya Gillen, promotion president for FallsFest.
Another new underline is the moth tent, where no one will be carrying out any record tossing, but will suffer the caprice of live butterflies.
And it’s expected the Epic Paintball tent will turn a air blower favorite, too.
“It’s HUGE!” Robertson mentioned of the paintball tent.
No must be bring any paintball gear, only head to the playing field and purchase coupons for one paintball event or an armband for all day paintball joy.
Another new add-on is a Habitat for Humanity 5K, 15K or one-mile fun run. The 15K launches at 7:30 a.m. Saturday nearby the pavilion in the playing field with the 5K and one-mile fun run commencement at 8 a.m. before FallsFest opens. Proceeds gain Habitat, that builds homes for those who instead could not means to purchase their own home.
Besides those new additions, FallsFest is always the speak of the town, interjection to the big-named entertainers who are attributed with really diagram the crowds out to the park, such as Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Lawrence, Brooks Dunn, John Kay and Steppenwolf, and Loverboy in the past, to name a few.
This book of the family celebration will underline Texas rockers the Josh Abbott Band tonight on the principal stage. Known for hits similar to “She’s Like Texas,” “Road-Trippin’” and “If You’re Leaving (I’m Coming Too),” the Josh Abbott Band got together shortly after Abbott and 3 companionship brothers saw the Randy Rogers Band at a unison in Lubbock. Rather than go on on at Texas Tech, he incited to song and his rope is one of the fastest taking flight young Texas bands.
Opening for Josh Abbott will be Under the Influence.
Saturday night will go private club with KC and the Sunshine Band on the principal stage. The rope was founded by Harry Wayne Casey in Florida. The organisation churned Latin with RB and despondency and became an symbol of the private club period with such hits as “Get Down Tonight,” “That’s the Way (I Like It) and “Boogie Shoes.” The organisation has been nominated 9 times for Grammys.
Opening for KC and the Sunshine Band will be Slab Rat.
Of course, FallsFest, that is orderly by a 50-plus associate cabinet and put in to rigging by some 1,700 volunteers, wouldn’t be FallsFest without its returning events.
Always big on everyone’s list is the food, and there’s lots of it. The Wichita East Volunteer Fire Department will lapse as it does annually with its renouned Fire Burgers and Texas Taters. But there’s more: boiled Oreos, boiled Twinkies and flue cakes, along with Indian tacos, cheesecake on a hang and chicken-fried beef on a stick, to name only a couple of of the living options.
“Genghis Grill will be there and Dippin’ Dots,” mentioned FallsFest co-chairwoman Krystal Ross. “They’re both new.”
And living is important, deliberation all the activities. In add-on to the formerly mentioned Highlander games and Habitat for Humanity runs, a volleyball tournament will obtain the juices flowing.
Children’s actions will be brimming, too, interjection to a giveaway petting zoo, the renouned children’s tent, where they can try their inventive and imaginative sides with assorted projects. There’s the Kids Korner, too, puppets, magicians, the Touch-A-Truck area and storytellers.
Their comparison teenager brothers and sisters can plunge into a stone rock climbing wall or assessment their disturb level on a zip line, where they zip down a handle around strap and prove their need for speed.
Besides KC and the Sunshine Band and the Josh Abbott Band on the principal stage, a few other stages will entertain. The multicultural theatre will underline everybody from cloggers to Mexican dancers and Midwestern State University’s African and Caribbean students. Local bands will take over the Wee-Chi-Tah stage, and 7 bands will strive is to pretension of winning rope of the FallsFest Battle of the Bands.
Stop by the Unplugged Food Tent, as well, to grasp a couple of tunes whilst powering up with food from the assorted food booths.
The FallsFest Nuts-N-Bolts Motorcyle Run, that will broach hundreds of motorcycle riders to the park, earnings with a sepulchral rumble, as it does annually on Saturday evening, only before the principal theatre entertainment gets going.
As always, FallsFest is a fundraiser is to Junior League of Wichita Falls, the town of Wichita Falls Parks and Recreation Department and Streams and Valleys. Since its inauguration in 1986, the celebration has returned more than $1.5 million to the community. The supports have saved such projects as River Bend Nature Center, the Wee-Chi-Tah Sculpture, Berend’s Landing, and the city’s parks and immature space development.
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