This weekend at the Chattanooga Market looks to be another great one, with well over a hundred booths (including several new vendors) offering their hand-crafted, locally-produced items for sale direct to you!

The Chattanooga Public Works Department will be our featured attraction, and they will be showcasing their heavy equipment throughout the facility all afternoon; I can’t tell you how many kids (young and old alike) are looking forward to seeing the Big Toys used to keep our city in working order.

The heavy equipment scheduled to be on-site includes Vac Trucks, Automated Garbage Trucks, Paint Machines, Scissor Lifts, Speed Vans, Forestry Buckets, Grade Alls, Street Sweepers, Mini Excavators, TV Trucks, Knuckle Booms, Work Zone materials and the always-popular Dump Trucks. Various demonstrations will take place just outside the First Tennessee Pavilion throughout the day to demonstrate the massive power of these vehicles, and kids will receive hard-hats courtesy of the Public Works staff!

The Sweet Georgia Sound is a 20-member ensemble that has played in the Chattanooga area since 1994. SGS plays a variety of listening, dance, and ballroom dance music that includes classic and modern big band, swing, Latin, and waltz tunes.

In the Chattanooga area, Sweet Georgia Sound has earned the respect of accomplished ballroom dancers. However, Sweet Georgia Sound is also known for its ability and willingness to customize the musical program to meet the needs and preferences of its audience. Songs are selected and tempos are adjusted in order to accommodate the dancing abilities of those in attendance.

“Upon first listen to the New Binkley Brothers, my immediate thought was ‘There is indeed still hope for country music’. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about that canned crap coming out of Nashville nowadays (pop stars in cowboy hats). I’m talking about honest to goodness southern music which incorporates the gritty, shuffling fiddle of the famed North Georgia string bands of the 1920’s, the driving clawhammer banjo and the mountain harmonies that make your hair stand on end. These boys get it right. Hailing from Chattanooga, TN, this old-timey trio know just when to whoop it up, stomp and swerve out a fiddle tune, as well as break it down with old religious standards. In true southern fashion, these gents perfectly toe that line between saints and sinners; get down and get right and are as refreshing as cool corn liquor on a hot summers night.” –Leo Chancy TN Dept of Transformation