Exciting Weekend in Casey Jones Village!
Posted by Deborah at 11/1/2008 11:45 PM 
Categories: To Go,In the Village,Old Country Store,Casey Jones Museum,Events
Categories: To Go,In the Village,Old Country Store,Casey Jones Museum,Events
Updated November 1st: Wow...we are exhausted but very happy. Celtic Fest was amazing. So many people and so much fun!!! Our Slow Food event was a big succcess too. Both stories were on the evening news on WBBJ TV and the Jackson Sun covered Celtic Fest also which we really appreciate. More tomorrow! Many thanks to the wonderful folks with the Celtic Society of West Tennessee and Slow Food Memphis.
Updated October 31st: We have a beautiful day in store Saturday, November 1st at Casey Jones Village! Join us for Celtic Fest throughout the day from 9 am to 4:30 pm and stop by and visit us at our Sorghum & Biscuit Tasting with Slow Food Memphis at 10 am. The Celtic Festival is only once a year and it's fascinating, educational and cool so don't miss the fun! Visit the Celtic Society website at www.cswt.org for all the details plus here is the entertainment lineup for your convenience:
9:45 am: The Minstrels featuring Cara-Anne Phillips
10:45 am: Inis Acla School of Irish Dance
11:45 am: Opening Ceremonies
12:15 pm: Will Tell www.willtell.com
1:15 pm : Needfire www.needfire.com
2:15 pm : Memphis Scottish Country Dancers
3:15 pm : Needfire
4:15 pm : Northeast Arkansas Caledonian Pipes & Drums featuring
David Corbett
A complete list of merchants and booths is on the Celtic Society website.
Updated October 27th, 2008: It's going to be an exciting weekend in Casey Jones Village and the forecast calls for a perfect Fall day. Celtic Fest will be back for the third year in a row and we are hosting a Slow Food Memphis event at the Old Country Store Saturday morning at 10 am in the restaurant. Everyone is welcome!
Posted Sunday, October 12th, 2008:
We hope you are already planning on coming to Celtic Fest on Saturday, November 1st! It will be a wonderful festival from 9 am to 4:30 pm at the Casey Jones Village Amphitheatre behind the Old Country Store. We are hosting a special event that morning with Slow Food Memphis...a chapter of an organization we belong to...in our restaurant.
(Here are a couple of pictures from our Slow Food event:
Juanita Shaw (Old Country Store) , Judy Truex (guest) and Mary Beth Smith
(Clinton Family Farm)
Rose Ann Donnell with Donnell Century Farm
www.donnellcenturyfarm.com
What's Slow Food? Think of it as the opposite of Fast Food. First started in Italy in 1989 when a fast food restaurant opened in a historic district of Rome, it's a non-profit international educational organization who's purpose is to bring people back to the pleasures of the table by supporting food traditions of the area, local farmers, local producers, farmers markets, etc. We are members of the closest Slow Food USA chapter to Jackson in Memphis. There are over 200 chapters in America. It's all about Eating Local and supporting local farmers and we do in both by using produce from the West Tennessee Farmers Market whenever possible and selling local Tennessee products in our Gift Shoppe such as sorghum, Tennessee country ham and honey to name a few. Slow Food members include culinary professionals, farmers and food producers and generally food enthusiasts. www.slowfoodmemphis.com
We are so excited to be hosting our first event with the Memphis chapter on Saturday, November 1st - a Sorghum and Biscuit Tasting at 10 am. Clark Shaw, our CEO, came up with the perfect name for the event...."Sorghum - The Ultimate Slow Food". How great is that? We plan to have guests from Slow Food Memphis join us and a couple of speakers from the local farming community. Stop by and see us if you'd like to learn more about the work of Slow Food USA and be sure to spend the day with your family in the Village with the marvelous Celtic Fest. The Celtic Society of West Tennessee has planned another excellent festival and we are honored to be the site of it again this year. See you November 1st for a great day at Casey Jones Village!
Updated October 31st: We have a beautiful day in store Saturday, November 1st at Casey Jones Village! Join us for Celtic Fest throughout the day from 9 am to 4:30 pm and stop by and visit us at our Sorghum & Biscuit Tasting with Slow Food Memphis at 10 am. The Celtic Festival is only once a year and it's fascinating, educational and cool so don't miss the fun! Visit the Celtic Society website at www.cswt.org for all the details plus here is the entertainment lineup for your convenience:
9:45 am: The Minstrels featuring Cara-Anne Phillips
10:45 am: Inis Acla School of Irish Dance
11:45 am: Opening Ceremonies
12:15 pm: Will Tell www.willtell.com
1:15 pm : Needfire www.needfire.com
2:15 pm : Memphis Scottish Country Dancers
3:15 pm : Needfire
4:15 pm : Northeast Arkansas Caledonian Pipes & Drums featuring
David Corbett
A complete list of merchants and booths is on the Celtic Society website.
Updated October 27th, 2008: It's going to be an exciting weekend in Casey Jones Village and the forecast calls for a perfect Fall day. Celtic Fest will be back for the third year in a row and we are hosting a Slow Food Memphis event at the Old Country Store Saturday morning at 10 am in the restaurant. Everyone is welcome!
Posted Sunday, October 12th, 2008:
We hope you are already planning on coming to Celtic Fest on Saturday, November 1st! It will be a wonderful festival from 9 am to 4:30 pm at the Casey Jones Village Amphitheatre behind the Old Country Store. We are hosting a special event that morning with Slow Food Memphis...a chapter of an organization we belong to...in our restaurant.
(Here are a couple of pictures from our Slow Food event:
Juanita Shaw (Old Country Store) , Judy Truex (guest) and Mary Beth Smith
(Clinton Family Farm)
Rose Ann Donnell with Donnell Century Farm
www.donnellcenturyfarm.com
What's Slow Food? Think of it as the opposite of Fast Food. First started in Italy in 1989 when a fast food restaurant opened in a historic district of Rome, it's a non-profit international educational organization who's purpose is to bring people back to the pleasures of the table by supporting food traditions of the area, local farmers, local producers, farmers markets, etc. We are members of the closest Slow Food USA chapter to Jackson in Memphis. There are over 200 chapters in America. It's all about Eating Local and supporting local farmers and we do in both by using produce from the West Tennessee Farmers Market whenever possible and selling local Tennessee products in our Gift Shoppe such as sorghum, Tennessee country ham and honey to name a few. Slow Food members include culinary professionals, farmers and food producers and generally food enthusiasts. www.slowfoodmemphis.com
We are so excited to be hosting our first event with the Memphis chapter on Saturday, November 1st - a Sorghum and Biscuit Tasting at 10 am. Clark Shaw, our CEO, came up with the perfect name for the event...."Sorghum - The Ultimate Slow Food". How great is that? We plan to have guests from Slow Food Memphis join us and a couple of speakers from the local farming community. Stop by and see us if you'd like to learn more about the work of Slow Food USA and be sure to spend the day with your family in the Village with the marvelous Celtic Fest. The Celtic Society of West Tennessee has planned another excellent festival and we are honored to be the site of it again this year. See you November 1st for a great day at Casey Jones Village!
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