Heart of Virginia Festival - 2003: Festival Coverage

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[Photo of Chris Brochon presenting Gerry Spates with the first Eldridge Bagley print]

Presentation of the first Eldridge Bagley print

[Photo of a young girl being shown a puppet on sale at the Crafts Show]

Fuqua School Lower/Elementary Choir

The 2003 Heart of Virginia festival marked the 25th anniversary of the festival and there were plenty of special touches to celebrate 25 years of bringing art, crafts, music, culture, and much more to Farmville.

The day kicked off at the Downtown Stage where 2003 Chairman, Chris Brochon presented the first of a limited edition print by Eldridge Bagley, specially commissioned for the 25th anniversary, to Town Manager Gerry Spates in recognition of the invaluable contribution by the Town of Farmville to the festival.

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Throughout the day at the Downtown Stage, visitors were treated to performances from the Prince Edward County School Choirs, Fuqua School Lower/Elementary Choir, country music singer Glen Shelton, and King Wilkie.

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The Art Show

Zero Hour

The Art Show and the Craft show continue to attract a wide variety of items to browse and are as popular as ever with visitors to the festival. This was the second year that Bicentennial Stage featured young local bands and there was some awesome talent to see there throughout the day.

For more details on the Art Show including pictures and full list of the winners Select this link ...

For more details on Bicentennial Stage including more pictures Select this link ...

[Photo of a child working on an art project]

[Photo of a child dancing with Cody and BJ]

The Children's festival saw the welcome return of Cody and BJ and Ocean Encounters. As per usual there was a wonderful Art Workshop for children and many organizations had educational exhibits and other fun activities for the younger festival visitors.

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The Art Show

Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural, Jr.

Thankfully Saturday night was not completely rained out this year. Last year the rain came down and the bands played on despite a minuscule crowd. The fireworks had to be canceled. The rain was coming down again this year but not as bad so the bands played, a decent crowd stayed around and a fabulous fireworks display wowed everyone providing an awesome finale to the 25th year celebrations.

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Please come and join us again in 2004!

List of all the links to pages covering the 2003 Heart of Virginia Festival