Avondale Art-B-Que Festival This Weekend!
Decatur Metro | May 4, 2011
Patrick sends along this note about this coming weekend’s Avondale Estates Art-B-Que fest…
Looking for something amazing and unique for the family to do this mother’s day weekend? Head over to the rail arts district in avondale estates for the fourth annual art-b-que!
Explore for treasures in the artist market, listen to amazing live music and sample the tasty eats! Arrive early and pry secrets from pit masters throughout the amateur bar-b-que competition… or let your nose lead you to your favorite entry.The younger set will love the kid zone! saturday afternoon artists young and old will want to see Kate Demint’s paper making demonstration. Looking for more action-oriented entertainment? Live music all weekend includes nine inch neils, worthless son in laws and headlining saturday night:noot d’Noot.Late night entertainment includes the imperial opa circus and the art of such and such interactive scuplture. It’s the fourth annual art-b-que in the rail arts district of Avondale Estates, May seventh and eighth. grab mom and head to Art-B-Que for a weekend she won’t soon forget!
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I went to the web site and couldn’t find some info.. where exactly is the rail arts district, and what hours is the festival? Does anyone know?
The focal point will be at the corner of Pine and Franklin Streets in Avondale Estates. You can use the address ‘2846 Franklin St, 30002″ to google!
Bob
According to the website I went to, it looks like it is located near the intersection of Franklin and Locust – right behind the James Joyce Irish Pub. Judging by the music lineup it starts on Saturday at 11 am and runs all day. Looks like it concludes a bit earlier on Sunday evening. Looks like fun.
Yeah, the road behind James Joyce, which runs parallel to E. College is the main festival strip, The side streets and various parking lots in the area also have some action. I went last year and it was a lot of fun. Hopefully this year will be less sweltering.
Meant to add…street parking was easy to find in the area near Avondale Post Office.
The last rail arts event was confusing with some vendors in out of the way places, but maps were passed out. For this one, artist check in is on Olive St., near the Waffle House, address to google is given as 2846 Franklin, Avondale Est., 30002. Imagine there will be maps if it is not obvious.
Music goes until midnight on Saturday.
(and no, I’m not a vendor, am just trying to figure out where to go for this one since again it is not obvious.)
It will be obvious – just head north (towards the tracks) from College/N. Avondale in the area around James Joyce and you won’t be able to miss it. This is more of a neighborhood arts fest in the nature of the Va-Hi or Inman Park festivals than the last RAD event was. Like those, it will be booths set up along the streets and in parking lots. The only difference is that it is in a less residential area of Avondale Estates. They did make it earlier to reduce the swelter (Jeff was right about that being a problem last year!).
I’ll be there with my pottery, You will see lots of tents around the James Joyce pub and the surrounding area, you shouldn’t have an trouble finding the event or the vendors.
The hours are Sat 11am – midnight the vendors will shut down around 6pm unless they want to stay open later. Sunday noon until 6pm.
It’s always a good time.
See you there.
Cool.. thank you all very much!