Halloweenfest – 2009
27th Annual Halloweenfest
Halloweenfest In Transylvania County!
October 31, 2009 (Halloween)
The only other Transylvania is in Romania, so where else would you want to honor Halloween, but with us!?
Started by the Chamber of Commerce in 1982, Halloweenfest is celebrating its 27th year!
If baking is more your speed, enter the Proper Pot Apple/Pumpkin Bake-off and see who captures the judges’ favor.
The street festival begins at 10:00am. You’ll find plenty of fun for the family: Tiny Tot Pumpkin Bowl, Bi-Lo Cookie Decorating, Face & Hair Painting, Ghoulish Golf, & Spooky Hay Maze!
Families can also compete in the Costume Parade. Costume judging categories include: Best Infant, Best Comic Character, & Best Storybook Character.
If you haven’t gotten enough of your sweets, join in the Downtown Trick or Treat. Walk by the downtown businesses and street vendors and receive your candies and treats.
The Brevard Rotary Club’s 29th Annual “Flight of the Vampire” 5K Race ends the day at dusk (5:00pm).
Halloweenfest also hosts, the 14th Annual Old Time Music Competition. Musicians can compete in: Junior Fiddle, Folk Song, Lap Dulcimer, Old Time: Banjo, Fiddle, & String Band, Mandolin, and Guitar. The Old Time String Band Competition takes place in the County Courthouse, beginning at 8:00pm. This is one of the few venues in the county where old time mountain music is honored by contemporary musicians.
2009 Halloweenfest schedule
Saturday – October 31, 2009
12:00pm-4:30pm Count Dracula’s Blood Drive
(Water Oak Suites Parking Lot – East Main Street)
9:00am-11:00am Proper Pot Apple/Pumpkin Bake-Off
Proper Pot – Judging at 11:00am
10:00am-6:00pm Street Festival: Food and Crafts
(Downtown Brevard)
10:00am-6:00pm Family Activities: Tiny Tot Pumpkin Bowl, Ghoulish Golf, Spooky Hay Maze, Bi-Lo Cookie Decorating, Face & Hair Painting
10:00am-4:30pm Juried Craft Show
(Sacred Heart Catholic Church)
10:30am Junior Fiddle Music Competition
(Courthouse Gazebo)
11:00am-6:00pm Old Time Music Competition
(Courthouse Gazebo)
1:15pm Costume Parade Judging – TYC
(Downtown: Johnson/Jordan St.)
1:30pm-4:30pm Fall Festival (First Baptist Church)
2:00pm Costume Parade (Downtown)
2:30pm-3:30pm Trick or Treat
(Downtown Merchants/Vendors)
3:00pm-3:30pm Pumpkin Carving Contest
(Transylvania Times – Judging 3:30pm)
5:00pm Flight of the Vampire 5K Race
Brevard Rotary (S. Gaston near TC Library)
8:00pm-10:00pm Old Time String Band Competition
(Courthouse: Large Courtroom) $3 admission
Other Halloween Activites:
5:00pm Flight of the Vampire 5K Race
(Brevard Rotary) S. Gaston near TC Library
5:00pm, 6:30pm Halloween Tours
(Transylvania Heritage Museum) Downtown Brevard
Dusk – 10:00pm “Shock in the Corn” Haunted Maze
Blue Ridge Corn Maze
6:00pm – 8:00pm Trunk or Treat
First Baptist Church Parking Lot across from Big Mike’s
8:00pm “Bell, Book, and Candle”
Brevard Little Theatre – American Legion Hall
8:00pm “Little Shop of Horrors”
Brevard College
