The 2020 Ballyhoo Festival moves to new location

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Visitors to the 2020 Ballyhoo Festival enjoyed plenty of sunshine, art, music, culture and a new location.

The festival moved to the shores of Lake Shelby in the Gulf State Park this year. Visitors utilized the pedestrian bridge over E. Beach Blvd, shuttles and the Gulf State Park trail system.

The family friendly event featured a weekend full of performances by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Fiddle and Banjo Competitions in partnership with the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival and Flora-Bama, fine art vendors and food.

The Ballyhoo Festival featured 80 vendors with a wide variety of original art portrayed in paintings, pottery, jewelry, metal art, wood carving, textile art and mixed media. Many of the artists demonstrated their process like glass artist Greg Hoff. He showed the step by step process of making one of his jellyfish pendants.