Canon Fall Festival and Lavonia Renaissance Festivals Kick Off Weekend

There is a lot going on this weekend if you’re looking for some fun activities you and your family.

The Canon Fall festival takes place Saturday from 9a to 10p in downtown Canon.

This year’s festival will be filled with lots of arts and crafts vendors and as always good food and there will also be a cake walk and bingo.

Saturday afternoon is the annual street dance and later in the evening, Phil Duncan and the Southern Impact Band.

Entertainment begins at 6p on Saturday.

And on your way to the Canon Fall Festival you might want to make a stop at Lavonia’s first ever Renaissance Festival.

Sponsored by the Lavonia Downtown Development Authority and Main Street, the festival takes place at Lavonia City Park behind City Hall Saturday from 10a to 6p.

Amber Holcomb is the DDA’s Event Chairperson.

She said the DDA was looking for something different to attract more visitors to Lavonia now that the Land of Spirit plays have been discontinued.

The brainchild of DDA Director Vivian Young, like most festivals, there will be vendors, food, and entertainment but with a medieval twist, according to Holcomb.

“We’re going to have a menageris, a king and queen, there’ll be bagpipers, river dancers,” she said. “We’ll also have forgers, someone doing leather works. There’s going to be lots of fun things to do and buy.”

And there will be a cheese monger, and Blue Haven Bee Company will be on hand making their own version of medieval mead.

Children will also have their own area of fun, with games and a petting zoo.

Entertainment will be going on throughout the day – from cloggers to musicians strumming on period instruments.

Holcomb says how well this festival goes will depend on whether Lavonia holds another one next year.

“This is our dry run and we’ll see how it goes,” she said. “The main thing is having enough help to pull off an event this big. So, we’ll see.”

Admission to the Lavonia Renaissance Festival is $5.
For more information on the festival you can contact Young at 706-356-1926.