Schedule released for hot air balloon festival on Memorial Day weekend
The First Fruits Farm Memorial Balloon Festival is planned May 28-31 and will include hot air balloon rides, chainsaw wood carving, a food truck rodeo, carnival rides, a Frisbee disc dog show, nightly fireworks and a beer garden.
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The festival will include hot air balloon rides, chainsaw wood carving, a food truck rodeo, carnival rides, a Frisbee disc dog show, nightly fireworks and a beer garden. An All Veterans Group Parachute Team and The Bandit Flight Team will also be making appearances.
There will also be live music on the main stage throughout the weekend. Performers include Halifax-native and NBC's The Voice finalist Brooke Simpson, Rae Radick, Ryan Daniel, American Bombshells and Paige King Johnson.
Operation Coming Home will also present the keys to a new home to a wounded veteran during the weekend’s events.
The festival opens at 2 p.m. Friday, May 28, with the first act taking the stage at 3:30 p.m. Opening ceremonies will start at 5 p.m. Music will continue until the gates close at 10 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday (May 29-30), gates will open at noon and there will be entertainment from 2 p.m. until gates close at 10 p.m.
On Memorial Day, May 31, festival goers will not need a ticket. Activities will be limited with closing ceremonies starting at 11 a.m.
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More than 100 acres of parking is available on-site for the event. Organizers have booked Mott McDonald Engineering to plan traffic flow, parking and pedestrian flow on the venue. The same group helped planned the US Open in Pinehurst.
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