Fun in Flowertown

Join more than 200,000 of your closest friends for the 35th annual Flowertown Festival in Summerville. Check out dozens of arts and crafts vendors, businesses and nonprofit booths while sampling plenty of good food, all set among the colorful blooms of azaleas, dogwoods and wisteria.

The festival runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday and is located in Azalea Park, starting along Main Street.

The festival is an annual fundraiser for the Summerville Family YMCA.

Additional events include the Taste of Summerville, featuring local restaurants (food tickets $1 each at Taste of Summerville booth); the Children’s Jubilee on South Main Street with rides, games and arts and crafts for children; and live bands and musical ensembles performing all weekend at the corner of 2nd and Main streets.

No charge for admission to the festival; pets are not allowed. The Flowertown Festival has been recognized four times by the Southeast Tourism Society as one of the “Top 20 Events for the Month of April” and in 2005 the festival was awarded the “Shining Example” Award by the society.

Photo by Mike Creen

as provided by Charleston Regional Business Journal