News from Oak Ridge Convention & Visitors Bureau

8th Annual Secret City Festival
June 18 – 19 at AK Bissell Park
In historic downtown Oak Ridge

Find out how the Secret City changed the course of history. Join us as we celebrate the history and heritage of Oak Ridge with music, history, family fun, and more!

The 8th annual Secret City Festival is a FREE festival, open to the public from 11 am – 7 pm on Friday and 10 am – 7 pm on Saturday.

Free children's festival activities include Mountain Marionettes, Water Wars, karaoke and a dance floor, inflatables, arts & crafts, mule & wagon rides, Euro-bungy, Oscar the Robot, climbing wall, graffiti car, and much more.

A special area just for Toddler’s is available featuring inflatables, a Moon Walk, a Hay Bale Maze, and a Sand Treasure Pit.

A new Youth Area will feature a climbing wall, Eurobungy, water slide, obstacle course, jousting, military vehicles, a zip line, and much more!

The 4th Annual TN Creates, a juried arts & crafts show, will feature over 50 artisans, showing and selling their artwork and performing demonstrations throughout the weekend.

The festival will also feature antiques, exhibitors, entertainment, and fabulous festival food round out the weekend’s events. Visitors can also visit the Lavender Festival in Historic Jackson Square, take tours to different Manhattan Project Facilities, and witness the Invasion of Normandy re-enacted by more than 200 WWII re-enactors.

Evening Concerts:
Friday, June 18 – Tribute Night, featuring
Daryl Stuermer-Genesis Rewired, Break on Through-A Tribute to the Doors, and Tres Hombers (a ZZ Top tribute band)
Saturday, June 19 – Chubby Checker
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of “The Twist”

Tickets are available in the following ways:

• www.SecretCityFestival.com
• Ticket Line: (865) 482-4432
• Oak Ridge Civic Center Front Desk

Early bird tickets (available through June 12) are $12. After June 12, tickets are $15 each.

Entertainment & Exhibits

• See great regional and local entertainers perform all weekend long.
  
• More than 200 Exhibitors, Vendors, and Food Vendors will be featured
  
• Manhattan Project History Exhibits Commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the End of WWII
  
• Manhattan Project Reunion
  
• Bus Tours to original Manhattan Project Sites

What’s New for 2010?

• Concert headliners Chubby Checker, Daryl Stuermer-Genesis Rewired, Break on Through-A Tribute to the Doors, and Tres Hombres
  
• Zip Line, Water Slide, Obstacle Course, Bouncy Boxing and Jousting in the new Youth Area
  
• Musical entertainment by The Springs and the Ciderville Farm & Home Show
  
• Entertainment by world-renowned juggler Bruce Srafian
  
• Secret City Home Run – 5k Run/Walk
  
• Snoopy as the WWI Flying Ace exhibit at the American Museum of Science & Energy(link to AMSE.org)
  
• US Marine Corps presence during the WWII Re-enactment
  
• An armor vs. armor conflict during the WWII Re-enactment
  
• Y-12 Tours will feature a first time look at the Building 9731, the building where the Medical Isotope Program had its beginning. This building also houses the world’s only Alpha Calutron Magnets, which are 20 feet tall.

Children’s Festival Activities

• Inflatables
  
• Arts & Crafts
  
• Karaoke & Dance Floor
  
• Petting Zoo & Pony Rides
  
• Rock Climbing Wall
  
• Euro Bungy and more!

WWII Re-enactment

• 200 re-enactors
  
• Period vehicles IN ACTION on the field including American armor and American and German artillery and soft-skinned vehicles
  
• Living history demonstrations
  
• American and German armor

Off-Site Fun at the Festival

• American Museum of Science & Energy exhibits including a special $1 admission on June 18 – 20
  
• Bus tours to the X-10 Graphite Reactor, K-25 Heritage History Trail, and Y-12 National Security Complex
  
• Secret City Scenic Excursion Train, rides at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm, with a special dinner train at 6 pm. 865-241-2140

Parking & Transportation

• Free parking at the City Center
  
• Free shuttle service from the City Center to the festival sites including AK Bissell Park, American Museum of Science & Energy, and the Lavender Festival (Saturday only)

Map

• Click here to view the festival site map so you’ll be able to find your way around the festival grounds like a pro!

Sponsors

• Thanks to our festival sponsors, City of Oak Ridge and B&W Y-12, as well as our numerous event and contributing sponsors, this event is FREE to the public during the day and concert tickets are nominal.
  
  

Jackson Square Lavender Festival

The 12th Annual Lavender Festival will once again fill Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge with sweet scents of herbs, great music, herb and craft booths, demonstrations and all things herbal from 8:00 AM until 3:00 PM on Saturday, June 19, 2010

This annual herb fair features booths from several dozen vendors offering herbal plants and products, jewelry, aromatherapy, gardening, along with arts and crafts. Demonstrations on herbal cooking and crafts along with educational programs are given throughout the day. Live music includes contemporary folk, traditional and bluegrass.

The Farmers' Market at Jackson Square opens at 8:00 AM offering in season fruits and vegetables, farm-fresh eggs, bakery items, honey, meats and cheeses. A variety of booths and restaurants in Jackson Square will be offering breakfast and lunch items.

Entertainment will include:

Allen McBride, Wade Darnell, String Quarter ORCHMA, Liz & Tim, Early Bird Special, Frost Bottom Boys

For more information check festival's website at www.jacksonsquarelavenderfestival.com

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Jackson Square Lavendar Festival

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