Grab your cowboy hat and join us for the totally revamped West Fest!

Held at the Booth Museum and consists of many activities and fun for anyone! Entertainment includes Re-enactments of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, vendors, live music, Native American dancing, food trucks, children's train and hay rides, living history encampments, chuckwagons, petting zoo, haybale calf roping, and more! Free children's art projects and activities are also included with admission! Festival is included with Museum admission.

Schedule of Events

October 26 - 27, 2023

9:00 AM-1:00 PM: Passport To The West (School Groups Only)

Bring your students back in time with Passport to the West! Learn about Native American cultures through a visit to a Cree encampment; attend "East Meets West" a special living history performance with a focus on Eastern Woodland & Plains cultures; horse, rodeo and roping traditions of Mexico and Atlanta Black Rodeo come to life with interactive demonstrations; University of West Georgia Anthropology students host pottery making, gorget making and more! Students will be able to roam around the festival grounds (with a chaperone of course) and learn about the West, experience chuck wagons, artists, pioneer life with Bartow History Museum, erosion and western landforms with Tellus Science Museum and more! This is an OUTDOOR event (with a rain plan).

October 28, 2023

Wild West Stage
10:00 am: Jim Dunham: Gunfighter - Man or Myth?
10:30 am: Native American Dancers
11:00 am: Charreria - Cowboy and Rodeo Traditions of Mexico Presented by Union de Asociaciones de Charros del Estado de Georgia
11:45 am: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Reenactment
12:15 pm: Atlanta Black Rodeo - Bringing Historical Black Figures to Life
1:00 pm: Native American Culture
1:30 pm: Charreria
2:15 pm: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Reenactment
2:45 pm: Atlanta Black Rodeo
3:15 pm: Native American Dancers

Acoustic Music Stage
10:00-11:45 am: Ashlie Rae Parker
12:00-1:45 pm: Ashley Brooks
2:00-4:00 pm: Daniel & Amy Lieving

Family/Children's Area
10:00 am-4:00 pm: Haybale calf roping
10:00 am-4:00 pm: Bullwhip Demonstration
10:00 am-4:00 pm: Children's Art Activities
11:00 am-3:00 pm: Little Cricket Petting Zoo
11:00 am-3:00 pm: Face Painting
11:00 am-3:00 pm: Pony Ride (under 60 lbs.)
11:00 am-3:00 pm: Hay ride
11:00 am-3:00 pm: Train ride

Chuckwagons - samples of biscuits, pinto beans, meat, potatoes, and cobbler
Etowah Cattle Company, Michael Best & Donovan Tucker
Forest Manna Camp Cooks, DeWayne Ruff
The Rocking TP, Troy Phillips

10:00 am: 3:00 PM: Food Trucks
Buy Your Side Catering - (2) tacos, beans and rice
The Club at Cedarcrest -Buffalo ChickenTots, fried rock shrimp, loaded tots or fries, braised beef tacos, burger slider, fried chicken sliders, and a chopped salad
Phat Katz - Chopped BBQ sandwiches and plates
Smoked BBQ chicken wings plate
BBQ pulled pork nachos
Stuffed sausage etc.
Noble & Main
Mister Softee

Vendors & Demonstrators
Angelic Sweets Bakery - desserts
Bayla Fawn - hand sewn items, jewelry
Bill's Bee Farm - honey
Booth Artists' Guild
Booth Photography Guild
Booth Writers Guild
Buffalo Western Wear - western clothes
Byrd Mountain Pottery - pottery
DH Tack - western tack, purses, horseshoe art
Doc Johnson - Medicine Show
Ellen Golden - jewelry
Flint River Knife Club - forgers
Gail Baxter Jewelry - handmade jewelry
Kim & Hayley Howell - arts, crafts, & t-shirts
I Arted - epoxy resin, fluid art creations, tumblers, t-shirts
Doc Griffin - jail wagon photo op
Jordan Lindsey Creations - crochet items
Karon Warren - 100 Things to Do in the North Georgia Mountains Before You Die
Lu's Coffee - fresh squeezed lemonade, coffee, tea
Masked Nerfer - nerf guns & accessories
Mrs. P's Pastries - cookies, brownies, pottery
Okra Girl & Mountain Man - handmade soap, deodorant, body butter
Payton Anglin - shirts, hats, soaps, lotion
Rock Pile Farm - jams & jellies
Sassy Wags - pet bandanas, keychains
Sharon Camp Pottery - pottery
Sherri Wellham Photography - old timey photos
Tina Evans - mohair & wool
Tandy Leather - The art of leather craft
That Foreign Chicks Bakery - ginger snap cookies, czechoslovakian strawberry shortbread, pumpkin bread, carrot cake
The History Company - vintage tv cowboy wares
Tiny Seeds - childrens' clothing
Tracy Duckett - woodturning
Trail Walker Crafts -
Victor Hayes - walking sticks, necklaces
Will Smith - woodworking, cutting boards, bowls
Aces & Eights - historical reenactments & living history

October 28, 2023

5:00 - 7:30 PM: West Fest After Party

After attending West Fest during the day, come let loose and join us for the FIRST ever "West Fest After-Party" held on the Museum South Lawn. Beer, wine, signature drinks, food trucks and live acoustic music by Carterville native rising star, July Turner! Tables will sell FAST. Mark your calendars. Table of 8: $300.00 Individual tickets: $30.00.
Must be 21+ to attend

Date: October 28, 2023

Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm

Location:
Booth Western Art Museum,
501 Museum Drive,
Cartersville, GA 30120.

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