'TrailFest' Brings Food, Music to Downtown Woodstock

The Greenprints Alliance' annual festival, which is designed to draw attention to its purpose of raising money to build trails, will be held on Saturday March 23.

'Urban Challenge 4' Allows Residents To Test Knowledge of Woodstock, YMCA

The 'Woodstock Urban Challenge 4' will also serve as a vehicle for the YMCA of Cherokee County to draw attention to its Youth Fit For Life initiative.

The YMCA of Cherokee County is using a unique way to allow residents to flaunt their knowledge of the organization, the city of Woodstock — and to also raise awareness about its anti-obesity campaign.  The YMCA, along with the Greenprints Alliance, will present its Woodstock Urban Challenge 4, a scavenger hunt activity designed to attract Cherokee County residents who want to get outside and test their knowledge on Woodstock and the YMCA.  The hunt, which is free for those wishing to participate, starts at 12:30 p.m. March 23, and will be held during the same time as this year's TrailFest, the headline fundraiser for the Greenprints Alliance.  Teams will be able to start any time between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., but the hunt will …

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Kurt Thomas Band, Whiskey Gentry To Perform At 'Trailfest'

The Greenprints Alliance has finalized its list of music acts for Trailfest 2013, which will be held on March 23.

Organizers behind the fourth annual Trailfest 2013 have released the final line up for its music acts for its festival slated to hit Woodstock later this month.  The Whiskey Gentry and the Kurt Thomas Band, among others, will headline the festival organized by Greenprints Alliance, which is slated for 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. March 23 in downtown Woodstock.  Having recently been chosen by Paste Magazine as the "Best of What’s Next," The Whiskey Gentry have established themselves among the Atlanta music elite. They have shared the stage with artists such as Doc Watson, Old Crow Medicine Show, Rhett Miller of the Old 97s, John Popper, Ed Roland of Collective Soul, Chatham County Line and Slobberbone. A recent finalist in the Chris Austin …

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'Trailfest' Brings Food, Music To Downtown Woodstock

The Greenprints Alliance' annual festival, which is designed to draw attention to its purpose of raising money to build trails, will be held on March 23.

'Trailfest' Brings Food, Music To Downtown Woodstock

The Greenprints Alliance' annual festival, which is designed to draw attention to its purpose of raising money to build trails, will be held on March 23.

An event that draws thousands to Woodstock in an effort to raise money to build trails will return in March.  Greenprints Alliance's Trailfest 2013 is set for March 23 in downtown Woodstock.  The event, originally coined Streetfest, is going into its fourth year. "After extensive focus groups and market research, we decided to gear the event to a more trail focused theme and event," the organization noted on its Facebook event page. "It took as a very long time to come up with this rebrand of the event." The event will take place at the Park at City Center and blends music, activities, food and entertainment with education about the organization's efforts to raise money to expand the city's trail network.  Some of the musical acts that …

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