Fourth Annual Eastmont Tomato Festival
Venue: Meadowbrook Center, Shawsville
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Sports, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Arts & Theatre, Charity
Cost: Free

Description:
The Fourth Annual Eastmont Tomato
Festival will feature tomato contests, art contests, a fun pageant, and the TomatOlympics, plus crafts and other kinds of fun for the kids including a magician performing during the day as well.

Celebrity judge Larry Bly (star of radio and TV's Cookin' Cheap) will be the Official Tomato Taster this year.

Lots of delicious tomato-themed foods; plenty of arts and crafts booths, farmers' markets booths, and much more. Free tomato tasting table and free advice from master gardeners.

Old Time band The Black Twig Pickers will be performing.

Banjos and fiddles, boards and bones in hand, the Black Twig Pickers dove into a living tradition of old-time music that surrounds their homes in Southwest Virginia and never looked back. Both scholars of the regional sounds and advocates of an ecstatic and highly personal approach to the music, the Twigs hold down local dance and bar gigs, play all manner of celebrations and every so often, hit the road.

For more information on the Black Twig Pickers, visit: http://www.blacktwigpickers.org/

All proceeds will benefit the Karen Cronin Legacy Fund. The Karen Cronin Legacy Fund supports programs and projects in eastern Montgomery County.

For more information, visit: http://tomatofestival.wordpress.com/

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