Saturday, April 14 2018 ENTERTAINMENT Festival Hours: 8am - 5pm Mark Lowry returns for 32nd annual festival Back by popular demand, Mark Lowry will be our guest for a return engagement at this year’s festival! Mark is known and loved around the world as an innately entertaining communicator who, at once, makes audiences laugh, cry and think. Mark is a singer, storyteller, humorist and songwriter, whose lyric to “Mary Did You Know?” resulted in one of the most loved modern Christmas songs of this century. This captivating song, which he co- wrote with Buddy Greene, has been recorded by artists from every genre. Mark has spent more than 20 collective years as the baritone singer for the Grammy-award winning Gaither Vocal Band and serves as the sidesplitting comedic sidekick for Bill Gaither through concert tours and Gaither Homecoming video series and television airings. Enjoy Mark at the Old Glory Stage @ 12:30 pm 2018 Grammy winner Rhonda Vincent to appear Rhonda Vincent and her group “Rhonda Vincent and The Rage”, won a Grammy award earlier this The Art of Walter Anderson, year for the Best Bluegrass Album of the Year for “All plus Franklin Parish Art Students the Rage – In Concert Volume One (Live)”. “Water and Wildlife.” Rhonda and her band will perform at 3:30 on the (students of Mary Marr Nelson) Old Glory Stage, and promises to put on a great show for those attending! Separate $2 admission for this event Enjoy “walk around” acts throughout the day at the festival! Stage sponsor Old Glory Gill Funeral Home Stage Stage Great children’s entertainment throughout the day! Southern Revelation 9am Stage sponsored by Kenny and Donna Johnson 10:15 Six String Soldiers 11:15 Mark Lowry 12:30pm Borderline Bluegrass 2:00 Behind the Old Post Office Museum Rhonda Vincent 3:30 Shows throughout the day! Stage sponsored by Always a crowd favorite! Council Also, Miss Lindsey’s Stage School of Dance at 1:00 pm On the Corner @ Kathy Morris Realty Smackwater 8am Borderline Bluegrass @ 9am Baylee Sullivan 9:00 FPHS Jazz Group and Drumline @ 11am Scotty Temple and A. J. Gaither @ noon Southbound Train 10:00 No ice chests, alcohol or pets Mike McKenzie 11:15 Festival seating - lawn chairs okay The Main Event R&B12:30 pm Gates open at 8 a.m. Donnell Sullivan 2:00 (performance times subject to change) Al Cherry 3:30 www.franklinparishcatfishfestival.com Admission only $5 to enjoy all of these great acts!.