Halloweenfest
Halloweenfest In Transylvania County!
October 27, 2007
Join us next time...October 25, 2008
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 25th year.
If baking is more your speed, enter the Proper Pot Apple/Pumpkin Bake-off and see who captures the judges’ favor.
In the morning our Brevard Police Department also sponsors a Bicycle Rodeo and provides free helmets.
Picture by: Michael Rogers
The street festival begins at 10:00am. You’ll find plenty of fun for the family: Tiny Tot Pumpkin Bowl, Cookie Decorating, The Little Blue Choo, Inflatables, Pisgah Climbing Wall, 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 annual "Flight of the Vampire" 5K Race ends the day at dusk with a run. Download a registration form at Brevard Rotary - The Flight of the Vampire 5K Run & Fun Walk
No festival would be complete without music. And Brevard offers
some of the best in mountain music when the downtown hosts the
Old Time Music Competition. Now in its 12th year, this competition
attracts musicians as far as Florida who come not only to compete,
but to share with their fellow musicians a musical form that
will not be forgotten.
Musicians can compete in several categories:
Downtown Gazebo
10:30am Junior Fiddle: 1st Place $25 & 2nd Place $15
11:00am Folk Song: 1st Place $50 & 2nd Place $25
12:00pm Lap Dulcimer: 1st Place $50 & 2nd Place $25
12:45pm Old Time Banjo: 1st Place $100, 2nd Place $50, & 3rd Place $25
2:30pm Old Time Fiddle: 1st Place $100, 2nd Place $50, & 3rd Place $25
3:30pm Mandolin: 1st Place $50 & 2nd Place $25
4:00pm Guitar: 1st place $50 & 2nd Place $25
4:30pm Banjo Finals
5:00pm Fiddle Finals
8:00pm Old Time
String Band Competition
Brevard College (To be announced)
Sponsored
by Celestial
Mountain Music. Contact them for more information.
For those who want to stay in the scary spirit, The Hunchback of Notre Dame appears in the Lon Chaney 1925 silent film. Vance
Reese has composed the musical accompaniment and plays the majestic
pipe organ at The Porter Center during this frightful performance.
Visit their web site at www.theportercenter.org
Halloweenfest schedule
Saturday – October 27, 2007
9:00am-11:00am Proper Pot Apple/Pumpkin Bake-Off
Proper Pot – Judging at 11:00am
10:00am-12:00pm Bicycle Rodeo (Police Department)
10:00am-6:00pm Street Festival: Food and Crafts
(Downtown Brevard)
10:00am-6:00pm Family Activities: Tiny Tot Pumpkin
Bowl, Pisgah Climbing Wall, Ghoulish Golf,
Hay Maze, Bi-Lo Cookie Decorating
10:00am-4:00pm Pay-to-Play Inflatables
10:00am-6:00pm Pumpkin Strongman Shot-Put Contest
10:30am Junior Fiddle Music Competition
(Courthouse Gazebo)
11:00am-6:00pm Old Time Music Competition
(Courthouse Gazebo)
1:15pm Costume Parade Judging – TYC
(Meadow: Johnson/Jordan Sts.)
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)
8:00pm-10:00pm Old Time String Band Competition
(Dunham Auditorium, Brevard College) $3 admission
Other Halloween Activities:
7:00am-10:00am Transylvania County Shrine Club
Mountain Size Breakfast
(Dunn’s Rock Masonic Lodge)
7:30am-12:00pm American Red Cross Blood Drive
(Brevard Davidson River Presbyterian
Church: Fellowship Hall)
10:00am-4:30pm Juried Craft Show
(Sacred Heart Catholic Church)
1:30pm-4:30pm Fall Festival (First Baptist Church)
5:30pm-7:00pm The Children's Fall Fest
(First United Methodist Church)
6:00pm-7:15pm The Hunchback of Notre Dame silent film
with live Organ (Porter Center) $5 admission
6:30,7:45,9:00pm “Legend of Tommy Hodges” (Cradle of Forestry)
6:30pm Flight of the Vampire 5K Run & Fun Walk
(Brevard Rotary) Gaston/Varsity St.
Dusk – 11:00pm Brevard Jaycees Haunted Corn Maze
(Blue Ridge Corn Maze)
7:00pm-8:30pm Slightly Spooky & Frightfully Funny
Storytelling (County Library Amphitheater)
7:00pm-11:00pm TCH Haunted House (Boys & Girls Club)
7:00pm-12:00am The Spooktacular Costume Bowl
(Strykes Again)
Halloweenfest 2007 summary
A record crowd of at least 8,000 enjoyed a picture perfect day!
55 street vendors
81 Old Time Music single competitors
Plus 12 String Bands
400-500 Costume Parade marchers
203 5K Vampire Runners
160 paid to be chilled by the “Hunchback of Notre Dame”
200 wound their way through the Hay Maze
300 bounced in the Inflatables
360 climbed the Wall
500 train riders on Little Blue Choo
Hundreds of children painted their faces, made masks, pumpkin bowled, Ghoulish golfed, threw shot puts
75 relaxed at the end of the day listening to Spooky Tales at the Library
200 stomped their feet and clapped their hands at the String Band Competition
Street Vendors Application:
Applications for Halloweenfest can be downloaded and mailed with
payment. Applicants must fall within the following categories:
food, craft, or non-profit. There are some sponsorship opportunities
for businesses, which allow for free booth space.
Applications are accepted between: August 20 – October
1, 2007.
2007 Festival partners
- Transylvania County Parks & Recreation Department
- Brevard Police Department
- The Proper Pot
- The Transylvania Times
- Brevard College
- Strykes Again
- Zero Gravity Skatepark
- BI – LO
- American Red Cross
- SAFE
- Boy Scout Troop #703
- Rosman High School FCCLA
- Rosman High School Chorus
- Transylvania County Library
2007 Old Time Music Competition Sponsors
- Celestial Mountain Music
- Cedar Mountain Banjo
- Jim Clinton
- The Branches at East Fork
- White Squirrel Shoppe, Inc.
- The Transylvania Times
- Margaret Hunt, Atty.
- Quotations
- Gloria & Jerry Clouse
2007 Old time music competition results
The Halloweenfest Old Time Music Competition was the largest ever!
We had a record number of participants (over 80), with 12 fine competing bands, 18 fiddlers, 14 banjos, 12 singers, 8 guitarists, 4 mandolins, 4 dulcimers, and 7 junior fiddlers.
Musicians came from North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia.
These are the winning contestants:
String Band - 1) Deep Bucket & the Dust Bunnies (Darin Gentry, Robbie Robertson, Cary Fridley & Chris Ryan;
2) The Peg-Twisters (Dona Cavanaugh, Bob Gregory, Jerry Sutton;
3) The Sweet Potato Rounders (Betty Vornbrock, Billy Cornette, Mary Z. Cox, Mary Gordon)
Old Time Fiddle - 1) Betty Vornbrock
2) Darin Gentry
3) Joseph Decosimo
Old Time Banjo - 1) Darin Gentry
2) Josh Johnson
3) Joseph Decosimo
Folk Song - 1) Don Summers
2) Amy Buckingham
3) Cindy Carpenter
Guitar - 1) Bob Buckingham
2) Tommy Jordan
3) Jerry Sutton
Mandolin - 1) Billy Berger
2) Bob Buckingham
3) Steve L'Heureux
Dulcimer - 1) Mary Z. Cox
2) Matt Hutchins
3) Cathy Ciolac
Junior Fiddle - 1) Sarah Herbster
2) Ella Hunt
3) Luke Shealy
Special thanks go to our sponsors: Jerry & Gloria Clouse, Jim Clinton Violins, Cedar Mountain Banjos, Branches at East Fork, Transylvania Times, Attorney Margaret Hunt, The White Squirrel Shoppe, Quotations Coffee Cafe, The Heart of Brevard, Jason's Main Street Grill, and Celestial Mountain Music; our judges: Billy Cornette, Roger Butz, Marshall Goers, Hilary Dirlam, Jacques Levin, Michael Williams; our volunteers: Glenn Fleming, Don Summers, Kathy Neely, Pat McConnell, Ed Updike, Darlene & John Geffert, Gerry Azatta, Steve L'Heureux, Carroll Smith, Jerry & Gloria Clouse, & Tish & Chip Arnold; our sound staff Terina Plyler & Billy Berger, and Brevard College.
Mary Gordon
Celestial Mountain Music
www.celestialmtnmusic.com
Thanks
We are blessed with the wonderful bounty of supporters and partners who made possible the 2007
Halloweenfest and Old Time Music Competition
Festival Partners OTMC Sponsors
Transylvania County Parks & Celestial Mountain Music
Recreation Department/TYC Jim Clinton
Brevard Police Department Cedar Mountain Banjo
EMS/Fire Departments White Squirrel Shoppe
The Proper Pot The Transylvania Times
The Transylvania Times Quotations Coffee Cafe
Brevard College Margaret Hunt, Atty.
Strykes Again ! The Branches at East Fork
Bi-Lo Jerry & Gloria Clouse
City of Brevard
American Red Cross Additional Logistical Support
SAFE Dept. of Public Works
Boy Scout Troop #303 Brevard Police
Brevard Rotary Club Brevard Fire/EMS
Transylvania County Library Murdock Golf
Rosman High School FCCLA Citizens Telephone
Rosman High School Chorus Branches at East Fork
Platt Architecture
Holly View Farm
Other Volunteers:
Irma Holcombe, Tissie Stroup, Rick Pangle, Bob Gibson, Patricia Black,
Dean Ashenfelder, Mark Queen, Aaron Smith, Kayla & Rosa Lance, Ashley Morton, Alicia Reese; Glenn Flemming, Don Summers, Kathy Neely, Pat McConnell, Roger Butz, Ed Updike, Darlene & John Geffert, Gerry Alzatta, Steve L’Heureux, Carroll Smith, Jerry & Gloria Clouse, Tish & Chip Arnold, Billy Berger
Festival Organizer: The Heart of Brevard
