The 2013 Spring Festival on Ponce will be held April 13-14 in the historic Olmsted Linear Park in the Druid Hills Neighborhood of Atlanta. More than 100 arts & craft vendors and local food trucks (including Yumbii, King of Pops and many more) will line the gently rolling paths of the chain of parks along Ponce de Leon Avenue.

Along with the artists, there will be a children’s play area and acoustic music from local artists. The line up includes: 

Saturday, April 13th
11:00 – 12:00 pm Vancouver
12:30 – 1:30 pm The Years
2:00 – 3:00 pm Lauren Jones & The Current
3:30 – 4:30 pm Willie Heath Neal
5:00 – 6:00 pm Prisca Strother (a.k.a. “Prisca”)

Sunday, April 14th
12:00 – 1:00 pm Steven Mann
1:30 – 2:30 pm Jon Harris
3:00 – 4:00 pm Wesley Cook
4:30 – 5:30 pm Berteal

On Saturday, The Nun Dash will be held at the park to help raise money for CURE Childhood Cancer and to set a Guinness World Record of the most people running dressed in full nun habits. The event is sponsored by Broadway in Atlanta as part of their promotion for Sister Act: The Musical at The Fox.

For more information about the events in the park this weekend, visit www.festivalonponce.com.

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Collin Kelley has been the editor of Atlanta Intown for two decades and has been a journalist and freelance writer for 35 years. He’s also an award-winning poet and novelist.