Jerry Johnson, executive director of Decatur Area Arts Council, and Decatur Parks Foundation Director Jill Applebee on Friday announced plans for the Devon On Tap Craft Beer and Music Festival to be held in August at the Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater. The event will benefit both organizations. Visit www.herald-review.com to see a video from the press conference.
DECATUR — Craft beers and music will be the highlights of a summer event along Lake Decatur.
The Decatur Parks Foundation and The Decatur Area Arts Council have partnered together in creating the Devon On Tap Decatur Craft Beer and Music Festival scheduled for Aug. 28 at the Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater.
Jill Applebee, Decatur Parks Foundation director, and Jerry Johnson, Decatur Area Arts Council executive director, announced details of the event during a press conference on Friday.
“This location was particularly exciting for us,” Johnson said about The Devon. “Our craft beer festival that we hosted was growing.”
For several years, the arts council has hosted a beer festival in front of the Madden Arts Center as a fundraiser for the organization. The event was cancelled last year.
Several details from the Decatur Area Arts Council's Craft Beer Festival will remain the same, including sampling from regional breweries, food trucks and games.
Decatur Parks Foundation Director Jill Applebee took part in the announcement Friday for the Devon On Tap Craft Beer and Music Festival to be held in August at the Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater, to benefit the Arts Council and the foundation.
Added to this year’s event include four local bands performing behind the Devon stage facing the lakefront. The organizations will announce the bands at a later date.
A VIP event will be held the evening before on Aug. 27 at the Decatur Area Arts Council. “It will include rare, exclusive, hard to find beers and ciders, along with delicious hors d'oeuvres prepared by our friends at the Richland Culinary Institute,” Johnson said.
The two organizations announced the event months in advance in hopes of reaching possible corporate sponsorships and breweries. Breweries currently committed to the event include Door 4 Brewing Co., Decatur Brew Works, Hand of Fate Brewing Company, White Oak Brewery, Cypress Grove Brewing, Springfield Beer Company and Limerick Brewing Company. “But we have many more to come,” Applebee said.
Brewers can compete in the People’s Choice contest. The winner’s beer will be served during The Devon’s 2022 season.
The event’s staffing will follow CDC protocols concerning up-to-date COVID restrictions, according to Applebee. “We’ll just make sure we have everything covered by whatever guidelines and phase we are in at that time,” she said.
The parks foundation approached the arts council in hopes of growing the annual beer festival, according to Johnson. Devon On Tap was originally scheduled to debut in 2020. The event was rescheduled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tickets purchased for last year’s Decatur Area Arts Council beer festival will be honored for the 2021 event.
“Now the event emerges in 2021 as a partnership with the area’s popular Decatur Craft Beer Festival, hosted by the Decatur Area Arts Council,” Applebee said.
Remember these Decatur events? Gone but not forgotten
21 Film Project
Launched in 2007, the film festival drew entries from around the country. It became part of Decatur Celebration in 2011, with entrant screenings taking place at The Avon Theatre, then the Decatur Civic Center theater. Films were also screened throughout Decatur Celebration in an air-conditioned tent set up in the event's Back Lot area.
Lakeside Music & Arts Festival
The Lakeside Music & Arts Festival drew crowds to Nelson Park and Lake Decatur from 2004 to 2011.
Fun Fair
Fun and sun combined on the first day of Decatur's 29th Fun Fair in 1984. Taking a spin on the Scrambler are, from left: Lindsey Delahunty, 9; Angie Michel, 12, Kim Ehrmantraut, 11, and Christine Houseworth, 12.
Fun Fair in Fairview Park
The giant slide offered the daring a bird's-eye view of the Fun Fair in Fairview Park in 1980.
Blues in Central Park
Blues in Central Park was held for 16 years starting in 2001.
Lake races
Power boat pilot Mark Weber of Detroit pulled into Decatur for a weekend of competitive racing in 1991. The boat races were on Lake Decatur from 1970 to 1986 and in the 1990s.
Lake Decatur races
Tom Thompson of East New Market, Maryland, drives his Super Chief 5-litre power speed boat to a second place finish on Lake Decatur in 1993.
American Power Boat Association's National Inboard Championships
North Carolinian Jim Parker, left, and Steve Earle of Los Angeles make late adjustments to Parker's 482cc pro comp racer in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn in 1983. Parker will participate in the American Power Boat Association's National Inboard Championships today through Sunday on Lake Decatur
Power boat racing
An estimated 20,000 people were expected in 1970 for boat races on Lake Decatur, including the Bill Heath Invitational Grand Prix.
Contact Donnette Beckett at (217) 421-6983. Follow her on Twitter: @donnettebHR
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