This weekend in Greenville will be an eventful, but somewhat damp one, as the 2019 Delta Hot Tamale Festival kicks off along with the Monuments on Main Street Greenville Cemetery Tour.
According to the National Weather Service in Jackson, a cold front moving in Thursday will bring in some dry air, making it rather chilly on Thursday and Friday evening, but pleasant during the day.
Temperatures will dip into the lower 40s Thursday evening and the lower 50s Friday evening.
Saturday, however, will be warmer and wetter as there are moderate chances and a possible isolated thunderstorm.
Rain chances will remain going into Saturday evening, but intense rain will be mostly limited to the south and storm chances will be greater in the east.
Rain chances will decrease Sunday and temperatures will increase making conditions favorable for the concluding Monuments on Main Street tour.
The Delta Hot Tamale Festival festival kicks off at 6 p.m. Thursday at Belmont Plantation for the Literary/Culinary Mash-Up Welcome Dinner. Tickets for the event are $185 and can be purchased online at mainstreetgreenville.com.
At 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, is the Literary/Culinary Mash-Up Panel Discussion and Luncheon being held at the Jake and Freda Stein Hall, E. E. Bass Auditorium.
Also, at 3:15 p.m. Friday, trail markers for two Mississippi writers, Shelby Foote and Walker Percy, will be unveiled in front of E.E. Bass Auditorium. Tickets for this event are $60.
From 6-9 p.m. Friday night, there will be two open air concerts in downtown Greenville held simultaneously.
The first stage will be set up in the parking lot of Downtown Grille with Good Paper of Reverend Rob Mortimer performing.
Kern Pratt will be performing in the courtyard of Greenville Inn and Suites on Walnut Street.
Admission for both concerts is free but no outside coolers are allowed. There will be a variety of beverages available for purchase.
The festivities will conclude with the always anticipated Flavors of the Festival Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m. on Washington Avenue. Tickets for Flavors of the Festival are $25.
Coinciding with Hot Tamale Festival weekend, the cemetery tours will start at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and the first Sunday group will begin at 2:30 p.m.
The list of people being honored this year include: Margaret England Wilkes, Edmund Taylor Jr., Lucile Robinson Finlay, Gladys Montgomery, Buddy Stern and Richard Montague Goodwin.
Folks attending the tour are asked to park across the street from the Greenville Cemetery at St. James’ Episcopal Church, where tours will depart every 20 minutes starting at 6:30-8 p.m. nightly Friday and Saturday and between 2:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Adult general admission tickets cost $20 and students or youth ages 16 and younger cost $10 and can be purchased online at deltastage.com or at the Bass Offices, 323 S. Main St., Lagniappe, 1361 E. Reed Road, or Montage Marketplace, 3227 U.S. 82 E.
