Fall Festival 2010

THE EAST TEXAS ARBORETUM'S ANNUAL FALL FESTIVAL & BLACKEYED

PEACOOK OFF AT THE OK CORRAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 9-5,

1601 PATTERSONROAD, ATHENS, TEXAS

WWW.EASTEXASARBORETUM.ORG ~ PHONE: 903.675.5630 

The 2010 Fall Festival included:

Children’s Activities, Entertainment, Vendors, Art Show, Scarecrow Trail, Live Music, the very popular Giddie Up Doggie Show. Special guests include the Texicans performing three live Shoot ‘Em Up Old West Shows, the great Sisters on the Fly and Western singer/songwriter Mike Beck.

Arizona Bill Sponsored by ATMOS Energy

20101 Fall Festival Schedule: 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.

9:00  Boy Scouts Opening Ceremony

9:45  Texican Show

10:30  A.M. Story Time @ School House

10:30  Athens High School High Kick Stingerettes

10:30   Judging for Cook Off 

11:00   Texican Show

11:30  Dance Zone Performance

12 noon   Pea Plates For Sale

1-2:30  Mike Beck Concert in Pavilion

2:30  Cook Off Winner Announced

3:00   Texican Show

4:00  Giddie Up Doggie Show

Mike Beck

A former working cowboy, Mike Beck continues to conduct horse clinics in the US and Europe, utilizing skills he learned while working for Tom Dorrance near Monterey, California.  But Beck is becoming better known as a singer and songwriter whose guitar mastery and memorable ballads capture old California, our world today, and the cowboy way of life.

Two of Beck’s songs were listed in the 13 Best Cowboy Songs of All Time in the April 2009 issue of Western Horseman Magazine (In Old California – a song about Jo Mora - and Don’t Tell Me.)

Beck's song, Patrick, which he wrote about Tom Dorrance’s horse Patrick was listed as one of The Top 15 Roadworthy Cowboy Songs in the July 2008 issue of Cowboys & Indians Magazine.

Amanda Come Home was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition, and is dedicated to all of the women who served in Iraq.

In the Spring 2010 edition of The Cowboy Way, Bill Reynolds writes, His love of the ways of the vaquero and the Pacific Slope region of the West comes through his songs in superb guitar work.

Thank you to the following Sponsors

ATMOS Energy,   Allied Waste,   Texas Trust,   Kevin Lilly Enterprises,  

Bee Line Promotions, Cole AC and Appliances, Red Line Power Equipment,

South Side Bank, Athens Life Fellowship

Food Venders Sponsored by Allied Waste & Athens Life Fellowship

Mike Beck - Sponsored by ATMOS Energy

Scarecrow Trail and Children’s Activities - Sponsored by Kevin Lilly Enterprises

Black Eyed Pea Cook Off - Sponsored by Texas Trust