Alabama Marble Festival

There will be 2 stages with national regional and local talent and the hours will be thu 10am 10pm fri 10am 10pm sat 10am 10pm sun 10am 5pm.

Alabama marble festival.

This alabama festival will have fine art fine craft crafts and commercial retail exhibitors and 40 food booths. Sylacauga marble has been called the world s whitest. The stone is named after the town of sylacauga alabama which is sometimes called the marble city. 10k 5k run walk sand sculpture contest singing for.

2020 marble festival cancelled. Shirley spears was instrumental in the creation of the marble displays at the bb comer library where she served as director. Ted spears has served as the chairman of the festival since its inception. The alabama bicentennial magic of marble festival will be held april 2 13 2019.

Join us october 2 3 2021 to celebrate the 40th annual georgia marble festival. Ted spears chairman. Sculptors will work in central park across from blue bell creameries with marble displays and other sculptures for sale in b b. Sylacauga marble also commonly known as alabama marble is a marble that is found in a belt running through talladega county alabama.

The sylacauga marble festival is held annually in sylacauga alabama. This event will also include. Among the activities visitors can watch marble sculptors at work. Classic timeless alabama marble is a domestic treasure favored by designers sculptors and builders the world across.

Sylacauga sylacauga s magic of marble festival originally planned for march 31 through april 11 was canceled several weeks prior to the event s start date due to the ongoing coronavirus. The festival began in 2008 at the request of the alabama state council on the arts. Prized for its color structure alabama marble has been called the finest marble in the world. Sylacauga the marble festival went to plan b to find another way to celebrate marble and sculptors following its cancellation due to the covid 19 virus in the spring.

The city will celebrate its marble mining heritage with its annual 12 day long magic of marble festival held april 3 14 2018. Where you will enjoy arts crafts music performances on our headliner stage fine art gallery parade road race quarry tours kids zone live demonstrations of marble granite sculpting pottery chainsaw carving and more along with an array of festival food.