From noon until 7:00 tonight, the Christmas festival will feature over 30 Christmas gift vendors with baskets, pottery, jewelry, children’s clothes, games, homemade cakes, boiled peanuts, peanut brittle, homemade honey and more. There will also be carnival type games for the children.
Santa Claus will be in the town’s Christmas parade at 2 p.m., and the jolly old elf will visit with children after the parade. Photos with Santa will be available for a small charge. There will be prizes, including a $300 first place prize, for the best float in the parade.
There will be live music, from gospel to country to dance. Entertainment will include everything from the Bluegrass sounds of Sons of the Pines to the North End Stompers to Elvis Presley.
Proceeds from the Santa photos and vendors will be used by the Jay Historical Society toward refurbishing their museum building.
Admission to the festival is free. Events take place in downtown Jay along Commerce Street.
The entertainment scheduled is as follows:
- Noon: Sons of the Pine
- 1 p.m.: Robbie McCurdy
- 2 p.m.: North End Stompers
- 3 p.m.: The Lunsfords
- 4 p.m.: The Calloways
- 4:30 p.m.: C.J. Penton
- 5 p.m.: Elvis Presley
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