Town sets date for Sugar Creek Arts Festival

Adam Fox says nothing is set in stone due to COVID-19, but they have selected October 9 and 10 as the dates for this year’s Sugar Creek Arts Festival in Uptown Normal. (Facebook/Sugar Creek Arts Festival)

 

By Neil Doyle

NORMAL – Annual events around the Twin-Cities have been on hold due to the ongoing pandemic, but there is some hope in the coming months.

The Town of Normal and McLean County Arts Center have set a date for this year’s Sugar Creek Arts Festival. Normal Civic Arts Manager Adam Fox says they are trying to set a tentative schedule for several events.

“We are doing that for every event right now,” Fox told WJBC’s Scott Miller. “We are figuring out what we can move around, where things need to sit on the calendar, where things need to be set in the community. Maybe they aren’t in the same place they’ve always been. But over the course of this week we are really trying to finalize a lot of that, and I think by the time we talk on this show next week, we can probably talk hard and fast about more dates for a lot of the festivals and events everyone is looking forward to.”

There are a whole lot of things that have to happen with the vaccines and everything else, but here is the date we have…

Posted by McLean County Arts Center on Friday, February 19, 2021

Fox says nothing is set in stone due to COVID-19, but they have selected October 9 and 10 as the dates for this year’s Sugar Creek Arts Festival in Uptown Normal.

Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]

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