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Friday July 5

• 3-4:30p Baking contest entries are dropped off by competitors, behind the Croakerfest booth at Freemason and South Avenue.

• 4p 33rd Annual Croakerfest Opens with music from the Community Band and the Pamlico Community Chorale.

• 4:45p Judging for the baking contest starts.
  

  In The Good Ol Croakertime – the 2013 Croakerfest t-shirt design

• 6p Miss Minnow pagaent starts

• Circa 6:30p – The baking contest’s cakes, cookies, breads – all of it – go on sale.

• 6:30p Croaker Queen Pagaent

• 7p (after the Croaker Queen Pagaent) Winners of Baking Contest announced from the stage.

• 8p Street Dance with The Soul Shakers

Saturday July 6

• 8:30a Booths at Lou Mac Park open

• 9a – Parade line-up begins – stretching from Ragan Road to Broad Street.

• 10a – Croakerfest Parade begins from corner of Broad and Ragan.
  

  Oriental is a town with parade skills

• 11:30a – Parade winners – as determined by Ladies of the Neuse – are announced at Freemason and South Avenue. Custom-made awards bestowed.

• 11:30a – Registration starts for Croakerfest Regatta (Regatta central is at end of Midyette Street.)

• 11:45a – Kids Park opens on festival grounds on South Avenue.

• Noon – Bluegrass on the Music Stage – The Boys From Carolina (with Tommy Edwards)

• 2p Croaker Festival Regatta Races Start

• 3p Coloring Contest winners announced. (Children 3 to 14, may submit their entry at the Croakerbooth from 4p Friday until 2p Saturday.)

• 6p Vendor booths close.
  
  

• 6-9p Street Dance (adjacent to Lou Mac Park) with The Southern Aires, a traditional swing band.

• 9:30p Fireworks over the harbor (Shot from Teach’s Cove at the confluence of Smith and Greens Creek. Watch from the bridge – thousands do every year – or from the shore or a boat.

Sunday July 7

• 8a Pitch in and help clean up at Lou-Mac Park

• 10a Community Church Service at Lou-Mac Park. Bring a chair.

Posted Friday July 5, 2013 by Melinda Penkava