Reminder: Secret City Festival this weekend

 

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Reminder: The Secret City Festival is this weekend. The festival kicks off with an opening ceremony at 11:30 a.m. Friday, and it continues through Saturday evening.

The Secret City Festival celebrates family fun, great entertainment, and arts and crafts, and it commemorates the incredible history that makes this town unique, organizers said.

“Join us as we honor the men and women who built this community and helped end the greatest war mankind has ever known,” they said.

The award-winning, two-day event includes the following and more:

• concerts featuring nationally known entertainers;
• live music and entertainment;
• expanded toddler’s, children’s, and teen’s areas;
• World War II living history activities and demonstrations;
• Oak Ridge history exhibits;
• regional exhibitors and vendors;
• arts and crafts;
• TN Creates juried arts show; and
• festival food, fun, and more.

There will be a Battle of Normandy World War II reenactment at the Secret City Festival this year. Scheduled to attend the reenactment are:

• the only fully live firing German Flak 88 in the United States, which will perform firing demonstrations;
• authentic Allied vehicles including jeeps, armored halftracks, scout cars, and anti-tank artillery;
• authentic Axis vehicles including a German Stug III Ausf G assault tank, Panzer III command tank, a Sd. Kfz 251 halftrack, and a mounted Flak 38, just to name a few; and
• re-enactors representing American paratroopers and infantry, British paratroopers, German Wehrmacht, assault troops, and fallschirmjagers.

The battle re-enactment is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, June 13.

Concert headliners this year are Three Dog Night on Friday evening and The Marshall Tucker Band on Saturday evening. Those shows start at 7 p.m., and gates open at 5:30 p.m.

Steve Rutledge and the Groove Evolution will open for The Marshall Tucker Band at the Secret City Festival on Friday, June 12, and Legacy will open for Three Dog Night on Saturday, June 13. Organizers have outlined security procedures for those who attend the concerts.

See the Secret City Festival website for more information. The Secret City Festival is presented by the City of Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Arts Council of Oak Ridge.

Here is the festival schedule:

	2015 – Friday, June 12
Time	Event	Location
9 am-5 pm	American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE) Special Exhibits	AMSE
11 am-6 pm	Exhibitors	Library Parking Lot and Surrounding
11 am-6 pm	Arts & Crafts Show	Library Parking Lot
11 am-6 pm	“TN Creates” Juried Arts & Crafts Fair presented by Oak Ridge Art Center	Civic Center Gym
11 am-7 pm	Children’s Games & Entertainment	Bissell Park
11 am-7 pm	Toddlers’ Games & Entertainment	Bissell Park Playground Area
11 am-7 pm	Youth Games & Entertainment	AMSE Field
11:30 am	Opening Ceremony and Sponsor Recognition	Pavilion
12 pm-5:45 pm	Entertainment on Pavilion Stage	Pavilion
12 pm-4 pm	Raku Pottery Firing and other Craft Demonstrations	Civic Center Gym

 

	2015 – Saturday, June 13
Time	Event	Location
9 am-5 pm	AMSE Special Exhibits	AMSE
10 am	“Tolling of the Boats” – US Smoky Mountain Submarine Veterans	Commemorative Walk
10 am-4 pm	Entertainment on Pavilion Stage	Pavilion
10 am-5 pm	Secret City “Cruise-In” Car Show presented by Clinton Region AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America)	AMSE Lower Parking Lot
2pm	The Battle of Normandy – WWII Reenactment	Bissell Park
10 am-6 pm	Exhibitors	Library Parking Lot & Surrounding
10 am-6 pm	Arts & Crafts Show	Library Parking Lot
10 am-6 pm	“TN Creates” Juried Arts & Crafts Fair presented by Oak Ridge Art Center	Civic Center Gym
10 am-7 pm	Children’s Games & Entertainment	Bissell Park
10 am-7 pm	Toddlers’ Games & Entertainment	Bissell Park Playground Area
10 am-7 pm	Youth Games & Entertainment	AMSE Fiel

 

 

 

 

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