Sponsors for the Jug Tavern Festival are Russell, Stell, Smith, Mattison; Ann’s Flower Shop; Verity Bank; Winder Square Shopping Center; The Peoples Bank; Moose Lodge #262; Keck & Wood; 84 Lumber Company; TMK Investments; H. S. Feldman; Winder Downtown Development Authority; Winder Police Department; and Robertson Sanitation, A Division of Republic Services.

The stage will be the focus of musical entertainment – taking you back in time and bringing you up to the current in sound.

The Skillet Lickers will perform from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. followed by the Jug Tavern Squares from 1-3 p.m.

Southfire will take the stage at 3 p.m. for a two-hour performance with the Marty Ford Band winding up the musical entertainment from 5-7 p.m.

A variety of craft vendors will have handcrafted baby items, monogrammed items, handbags, hair accessories, furniture and accessories in additoin to floral arrangements, jewelry and bookmarks.

Garden art for indoor sand outdoors will be available as well as wooden statues with solar lights. You can find items for your pet with doggie items provided by one vendor.

Pampered Chef Kitchen tools, Premier Jewelry, children’s novelty toys and more will make for an assortment of shopping opportunities.

You also can visit the Winder-Barrow Community Theatre booth where members will be selling seasonal tickets or purchase Historical Society items including books, jugs and gift items. The Barrow County Museum will be open from 9 a.m .to 4 p.m. for visitors to stop in with a Winder Fire Department truck outside to bring attention to October as Fire Prevention Month. Inside the museum, the Winder Fire Department is the featured display.

Other booths will find the Winder Woman’s Club selling coupon books and the Georgia Piedmont Arts Center manning a membership booth in addition to other informational booths.

Stop by the Jug Tavern Quilters Guild booth inside the Winder Community Center to purchase your chance to win a beautiful quilt made and donated by the quilters’ guild. Tickets are $1 each for the quilt which will be on display. All proceeds will go to support the Barrow County March of Dimes. Drawing will be held at the March of Dimes Walk on Friday, April 16.

Food vendors will offer pizza, hamburgers and hotdogs, French fries, BBQ pork, chicken and ribs, sausage and fixings, kettle corn, cotton candy, funnel cakes, Italian ice, ice cream, sno cones, egg rolls and more.

For the children, Winder-Barrow Community Theatre will have a costume dress-up area for children for parents to take photos. The display has been a past popular feature at Chautauqua held for a couple of years in downtown Winder to revitalize the early 1920s festive atmosphere.

Airbrush tattoos, Pucker Powder candy art and inflatables plus hayrides can keep hte kids entertained.

The newest climbing attraction in Georgia is the 35-foot Spider Web Ride and it will be in the children’s play area.

At 7:30 p.m. in the Colleen O. Williams Theatre, the Winder-Barrow Community Theatre presents the comedy, "Bus Stop" by William Inge which is being directed by Diane Hallen.