Free Family Fun at the Inaugural ParksFest Music Festival at Garvin Park!

Fun, family, music and community spirit are what ParksFest music festival is all about. On Saturday, September, 13th Garvin Park comes alive with the all-day, free, family fun event ParksFest 2014. ParksFest fun features music from ten regional bands and includes activities for kids and adults alike.

The inaugural single-day festival takes place at Garvin Park from 11 a.m. through 11 p.m. and offers something for everyone. Garvin Park is one of Evansville's oldest and most popular parks, located at Don Mattingly Way next to historic Bosse Field. The festival’s live musical entertainment covers a range of genres from country to bluegrass and rock-n-roll. Featured bands include: Gentlemen and Scholars, 23 String Band, The Honey Vines, Factor Primo, and six other talented regional groups. Early in the day the festival is geared toward family, with games for children and families. Family fun activities include bounce houses, Zorb Balls, piano painting, hula-hooping and a harmonica workshop by Art the dude. As the day progresses into night, the music intensifies and the large beer garden, with multiple craft beers from all over the region, becomes the destination of choice, the place to be seen.

ParksFest includes a marketplace for local artists to trade their art, crafts and hand-made items. Food and beverage selections are plentiful, and include healthy options

ParksFest is a nonprofit event made possible through a collaborative effort with the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana and many other groups and individuals dedicated to bringing fun to Evansville’s residents and showcasing our city parks’ beauty.  Evansville residents have been asking for a fun community event like ParksFest. Through Evansville’s community-wide, citizen-driven visioning process, Evansville VOICE, citizens were asked to share their ideas, hopes and visions for Evansville’s preferred future.

Fun for everyone, the ParksFest music festival is Saturday, September 13th at Garvin Park from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. For more information, maps, band bios and music video clips go here. or on Facebook here to receive updates on talent, craft beer brewery participants, food vendors and other fun activities.