After a two-year hiatus, the Peanut Festival will return to Brooklet this Saturday for its 33rd annual event. The Brooklet Community Development Association and Belle Events Co. will host a day of food, music, shopping, and fun on Saturday, September 17.
The day will kick off with the parade through downtown Brooklet at 10am. It will be televised on WTOC TV, and Ellen Perkins will be in the downtown gazebo announcing the parade live. Lloyd Strickland is the Grand Marshal of this year's parade.
The fun will continue throughout the day with arts and crafts vendors, food trucks, and amusement options for the kids -- also beginning at 10am. Painters Alley will be on site for elaborate and fun facepainting.
Live entertainment will begin at noon, with tractor races commencing at 12:30pm on Warnock Street. Kiddie pedal tractor races will be first (with age divisions), and a slow tractor race will follow.
The free live entertainment lineup is as follows:
- 11:30am - Southeast Bulloch High School Band
- Noon - Third Infantry Division Dogface Brass Band
- 12:30pm - Heartland Express Cloggers
- 1:00pm - Christopher McCollum
- 1:30pm - Ronnie Love
- 2:00pm - State Prison Cloggers
- 2:30pm - Jackson Cannady
- 3:00pm - Joel Baker
- 3:30pm - Collins Family Band
- 4:00pm - Glenn Walden as Elvis
- 4:30pm - Krenson Kniphfer, Brandon Collins, Bill Jones
- 5:00pm - Brickhouse Live
Main Street, a dance band out of Savannah, will take the stage at 6pm and close out the festival.
Belle Events received more than 400 vendor applications for the event and is excited to welcome a variety of unique, local vendors to the festival.
Shopping options will include Prewitt Homestead, The Bees' Knees, Paisley's and Polka Dots, Kountry Krafts and Tees, Lovelight's Fabulous Jazz Hands, Tommy's Tumblers, Horton's General Store, Central Texas Scents, Sheila's Handmade Bags, Cam's Concepts and Metal Fabrication, Lu's Famous Cheese Straws, Way Back Outfitters, OgZ Dezigns, Overbrook Farm Candles, Hammeringsx2, Lager Point Tea Co., Thyme for Wreaths and More, Melted Treatz, J.R.'s Unique Jelly & Jams, Melting Mythology, Emma's Closet, BumbleBee Boutique, This Is Us Savannah, Little Diddle's Sweetery, Blossoms and Blooms Wreaths, K&P Creations, The Boro Soapery, Taylor's Sunset Tanning and Boutique, Southern Blended Boutique, Local Native Clothing Co., Wild & Free Creations, Semper Bella, Brushed Treasures by CK Designs, TOEtally Custom, Mike's Mailleworks, KT Antlers, PillowSak, Munchies by Moe Joe, ClayBabe, and more.
Food vendors will include Metter Meats, Coastal Kettle Corn and Pork Skins, Wavee Shavee Ice, Molly's Fish & Chips, 4&20 Bakers, Big Dog Snowcones, Sweet Treats Lemonade, Starship Ice Cream, Fiesta Tacos, and others.
The festival will end at 7:30pm.
For more information, visit the event page on Facebook or the festival website. Event organizers can be contacted at [email protected] or (912) 663-9981.
