Description
The Green Corn Festival is a kick back to the good old fashioned family oriented picnics held by the Bixby Optimists Club. The annual festival (held on the 4th Thursday, Friday and Saturday of June) features great music, arts and crafts, food, bingo, carnival and great games and contests for the young and young at heart. A talent show to highlight area youth is held on Friday at the Community Center and the annual Green Corn Parade entertains the masses on Saturday morning.
The Festival is held in downtown Bixby, south and east of 151st and Memorial. Charley Young Park is the site of the Gazebo stage, and games, surrounded by food and crafts booths. Just a hop and skip over is the Youth Stage and Carnival. Cool off during the heat of the day by joining in a few rounds of bingo in the building at the corner of Charley Young Park.
What could be more traditional than an afternoon or evening in the bright summer sun, with lemonade to sip, an array of crafts and gifts to purchase, music to enjoy listening to, with your friends all around? Only a ride on the Ferris wheel as the sun sets and the sounds of carnival music drift up in the evening air.
Thursday June 23rd
Carnival – 6:00pm – 11:00pm
HOSS Cheeseburger Eating Contest – 5:30
Grand Opening Ceremony – 6:45pm
Free Roasting Ears While They Last – 7:30pm
Gospel Music – 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Friday June 24th
Carnival – 6:00pm – 11:00pm
Green Corn Talent Show – 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Little Miss & Mister Green Corn Pageant – 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Live Band – 6:00pm – 8:15pm – Travis Bond and the Rebel Souls
Live Band – 8:45pm – 11:00pm – Gavin Tucker and the .45 District
Saturday June 25th
Carnival – Noon – 11:00pm
Sign Up Box Turtles & Bull Frog Races – 8:30am
Box Turtle Races – 9:00am
Bull Frog Races – 9:30am
Green Corn Parade – 10:30
Hula Hoop Contest – 11:30am
BINGO in the Community Center – Noon – 5:00pm
Corn Eating Contest – Noon
Wheelbarrow Race – 12:30pm
Frisbee Toss – 1:00pm
Football Toss – 1:30pm
Watermelon Eating – 2:00pm
Limbo – 2:30pm
Balloon Toss – 3:00pm
Egg Toss – 3:30pm
Nickel in the Haystack – 4:00pm
Music – 6:00pm – 8:45pm – Riverside Rebellion Band
Music – 9:15 – Midnight – Danny Davis & the Dirt Road Detours