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It takes a village to puton an event such asMoultrie’s Spring Flingwhich kicks off on Friday,April 19.

There are public andprivate sponsors to beorganized, there are atleast 50 volunteers to becoordinated, musical actsto be booked and logisticsfor setting up arts andcrafts displays.

It all somehow comestogether on that weekendto give up to 7,000 visitors afun and entertaining visitto the Colquitt CountyCourthouse Square.

The event began in the1980s as an effort to bringthe arts and local citizenstogether.

“It was basically an out-reach to bring the artsdowntown,” according toJane Simpson, arts pro-gramming director for theColquitt County ArtsCenter. Simpson handledthe visual arts portion ofthe Festival on the Squareweekend while ConnieFritz and Harvie Ann Coxorganized the performancearts.

Simpson was instru-mental in organizing thespring event that originallywas dubbed Festival on theSquare. Miller BrewingCompany was the primarysponsor for years beforeclosing its plant onHighway 319 south oftown.

Among the biggest

draws at Festival on theSquare during those dayswas a tavern set up byMiller which featuredblues and other bands.

There were arts andcrafts for children and theVolunteer Arts Alliancesponsored competitionwhich featured $5,000 inprizes given in differentarts categories. The hobbyartists lined three streetsaround the CourthouseSquare. City of Moultriecrews worked for weeksbringing electricity to thevenues.

The Festival on theSquare traditionallyopened with a picnic at theArts Center that was fol-lowed by a day of arts andcrafts and musical per-

formances. The event onthe Square closed eachyear with the MotherEaster Church Choirsinging on the main stage.That would be followed bya dance held in one of thelocal warehouses just offdowntown.

“It all made for a longweekend,” Simpson recalls.

The day came when theArts Center handed overthe reigns of the festival tothe City of Moultrie,,which now operates theSpring Fling with theMoultrie Main Streetagency which is directedby Amy Johnson.

“I think Amy’s done agreat job,” Simpson said.

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Submitted photoSpring Fling was a new incarnation of Festival on the Square, a music and arts festival coordi-nated by the Colquitt County Arts Center.

Adelia Ladson/The Moultrie ObserverThe duo of Jaime Hunter, left, and Daniel Parrish, right, wasjust one of a variety of entertainers who performed on thesquare during Spring Fling 2012.

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“Our mission had beento bring the arts to thecommunity and throughpartnerships with otherswe were able to do that,”she said.The Arts Center now

focuses its attention on theDogwood Music Festivalwhich will be held a weekafter Spring Fling and issupported in part by aGeorgia Council for theArts Tourism ProductDevelop Grant.Iconic southern rockers

The Marshall Tucker Bandare scheduled as the head-lining act for the 2ndAnnual Dogwood MusicFestival set for April 27that Spence Field, home ofthe Sunbelt Expo.Dead Confederate, a

band with roots in Athens,will close out the outdoorstage which will featurelocal and regional acts.Tallahassee’s TobaccoRoad will open for TheMarshall Tucker Bandinside the family livingbuilding at Spence Field.Back on the outdoor stagethe night will close withmusic from GreenskyBluegrass.Tickets and an updated

schedule are availableonline at www.dogwood-musicfestival.com and atselected locations. EarlyBird tickets are on sale for$17 and after that allot-ment is sold out, pre-sale

tickets are $22. Ticketsbought on the day of theshow are $30.Meanwhile, Spring

Fling kicks off on theSquare on Friday April19th with a concert. Thoseattending are urged tobring their own chairs.The concert features the

Street Corner Symphonythat placed second in TheSing competition on NBC.The Nashville group willbe visiting local schoolsduring their stay inMoultrie. One event that has been

added since Spring Fling’sinception is the Back YardBBQ Festival, which fea-tures 5-person cookingteams set up around thesquare. They will competefor honors for best ribs,chicken, sauces, Bostonbutts, wings, Brunswickstew and brisket.“The Backyard BBQ

has grown every year,”according to Spring Flingorganizer Amy Johnson.The Downtown MoultrieAssociation helps sponsorthe BBQ.This year the Kiwanis

Club will hold its annualpancake breakfast as theSpring Fling comes to lifeat 9 a.m. and lasts until 4p.m. As in the old Festivalon the Square days therewill be two stages of enter-tainment. The main stagewill feature local dancers,

bands and special acts.Beans and Strings onceagain will have its ownstage and will feature avariety of talent through-out the day.“That’s a chance for

people to get out and sup-port local talent and to seewhat we have here,”Johnson said.Also throughout the day

artisans will be sellingtheir crafts, jewelry, belts,art, children’s toys andmuch more. Vendors fromall over the country will beon hand.The YMCA is holding

its Fun Day on Saturdayon the Square with gym-nastics exhibitions, gamesand more.A pet parade contest

will be held for specialprizes for owner look-alikeand special tricks.For the kids there will

be water balls, jumpyhouse and slides, facepainting and more. Therewill also be a mechanicalbull.And local merchants

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A City of Moultrie crew hangs a banner over Main Street at First Avenue South proclaiming the upcoming Festival on theSquare. Visual Arts Director Jane Simpson said this may be one of the oldest Festival on the Square photographs the ArtsCenter has; she dates it to the 1980s.

Adelia Ladson/The Moultrie ObserverChampion Martial Arts gave a taekwondo exhibition on themain stage during the Spring Fling festivities in 2012. NoahRivera, left, and Caitlin Owens demonstrate sparring.

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an example of the privateand public support thatmakes Spring Fling possi-ble.The City of Moultrie

operates the event on a$20,000 budget which isincreased another $5,000through sponsorships.Johnson noted that manycity employees volunteer tohelp on their day off work.It takes at least 50 volun-teers to run the event.“But we can’t do it with-

out our sponsors,”Johnson said. “It takes alot of public-private part-nership to put on SpringFling,” Johnson said.“The city wanted to con-

tinue an opportunity forthe community to cometogether. We organized and

brought it all together. Ourfirst year was a learningexperience,” Johnson said.

“We’re very fortunatethat our community part-ners have stood with us.”

Adelia Ladson/The Moultrie ObserverWiggins Produce participated in the farmers market that waslocated on the square during Spring Fling 2012. BeckyWiggins sells her produce to sisters Traci King, left, andPatricia King of Moultrie. The market is a relatively new addi-tion to the Spring Fling offerings.

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MOULTRIE — SpringFling will kick off Friday,April 19, with a perform-ance by Street CornerSymphony.

“They came for MusicUnder the Magnolia and itwas rained out,” MainStreet Director AmyJohnson said. “It wasmoved to a church andonly so many could sit inthere. There was over-whelming response tobring them back.”

Street CornerSymphony is a contempo-rary a cappella groupbased out of Nashville,Tenn., founded in May 2010to compete in NBC’s all-vocal competition, TheSing-Off.

They became interna-tionally known when they

became runners-up on theshow’s second season.

The group will be visit-ing local schools earlier inthe day to perform for andpossibly work with choralstudents, Johnson said.

On Saturday, April 20,the day begins with theannual Kiwanis Club pan-cake breakfast. Then at 9a.m., entertainment beginson two stages on theCourthouse Square.

The event features a lotof activities for children,including some connectedwith the YMCA’s HealthyKids Day, which is thesame day.

The Humane Society co-sponsors a Pet Parade,which includes prizes forOwner Look-Alike, BestCostume and more.

“This year we receiveda great deal of communitypartnerships as sponsors,”

Johnson said.For more information,

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StreetcornerSymphonyreturns to sing

Submitted PhotoThe Rasinettes were a group of women who entertained at Colquitt County events for a fewyears. Here they entertain in April of 2000 at Spring Fling’s predecessor, The Festival on theSquare. Performances by local talent is one aspect of the festival that lives on in Spring Fling.

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Adelia Ladson/The Moultrie ObserverRace participants and staff were up on the square during Spring Fling 2012 representing Needmore Speedway.

Submitted PhotoA vendor sells fruity drinksduring Festival on theSquare. A variety of artisansparticipate at Spring Flingeach year, selling everythingfrom jewelery and leatheritems to plants and paintings.

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