Volunteers still needed for balloon festival

Volunteers are signing up, but many more are needed to assist the College at the Pellissippi State Hot Air Balloon Festival 2005 September 23-24. Also needed are individuals to work as crew members with the pilots all weekend.

The festival begins September 23 at 4 p.m. and continues September 24, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Children’s activities, tethered balloon rides, food vendors, arts and crafts vendors and a “Pellissippi Idol” contest are part of the family-oriented event.

A balloon “glow” is scheduled September 23 next to the campus pond, beginning at approximately 8 p.m. Pilots will choreograph the lighting of their balloons to music.

Tethered balloon rides are scheduled September 23, 5-9 p.m., and September 24, 7:30-10 a.m. and 5-8 p.m., weather permitting. Balloons are to launch September 24 at approximately 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., weather permitting.

Country music star Josh Turner and his band will perform September 23 at 6:30 p.m. in a concert sponsored by WIVK. Mitch Rutman, a Knoxville guitarist-songwriter who once toured with the Dave Matthews Band and appears on the “Live in Chicago” CD, will perform September 24 at 6:30 p.m. in a concert sponsored by WOKI “The River.”

Other entertainers will include the Team Joe Western-style dancers from Cotton Eyed Joe, September 23, 5:30 p.m.; the Steve Davis Family, a gospel and bluegrass group, September 24, 11 a.m.; dancers from the Angela Floyd School for the Dancer, September 24 at noon; and the Four Grand Quartet, part of the Smoky Mountain Harmony Show Chorus, September 24, 1 p.m. Chris Baratta will impersonate Elvis Presley September 24, 2-2:40 p.m.

Admission is $10 for a weekend car pass, with additional charges for tethered balloon rides and some children’s activities. Proceeds will benefit the Pellissippi State Foundation.

For additional information about working at the festival, contact Gypsy Harrill at 694-6528.

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