{"id":21854,"date":"2016-01-12T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=21854"},"modified":"2016-01-12T03:30:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T09:30:23","slug":"clarksvilles-rivers-and-spires-festival-to-be-held-april-14th-16th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/01\/12\/clarksvilles-rivers-and-spires-festival-to-be-held-april-14th-16th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville&#8217;s Rivers and Spires Festival to be held April 14th-16th, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rivers and Spires Vendor and Participant Applications Now Being Accepted<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-165461\" title=\"Rivers and Spires Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Rivers-and-Spires-Festival2.gif\" alt=\"Rivers and Spires Festival\" width=\"220\" height=\"157\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Now in its 14th year, the Rivers and Spires Festival will return to Downtown Clarksville on April 14th-16th, 2016, with five stages of entertainment, more than 100 performers and countless attractions. Fun, family-friendly and always free, the award winning Rivers and Spires Festival is among the largest of its kind in the Southeast.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are now being accepted online at riversandspires.com for entertainers, volunteers, vendors and special event participants.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_306262\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-Rivers-and-Spires-Festival-4.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-306262\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306262\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306262\" title=\"Rivers and Spires Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-Rivers-and-Spires-Festival-4-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Rivers and Spires Festival\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-306262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rivers and Spires Festival<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Application Information<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Entertainers<\/strong> of all genres from dance troupes to street performers may fill out the short online application to begin the consideration process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Vendors<\/strong> can apply for a variety of areas including food services, Arts Galore (handmade items), Marketplace (novelties), Sports Zone and Commercial promotion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Individual<\/strong> applications include River Queen &amp; Teen pageant hopefuls, volunteers, quilters wishing to enter the Quilts on the Cumberland exhibit, and groups and\/or individuals interested in participating in the Children\u2019s Parade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Non-profits<\/strong> are encouraged to apply to be a Family Fun Zone exhibitor with an interactive booth and cultural groups or organizations may apply to exhibit in the International Zone.<\/p>\n<p>It takes more than 22 committees and 600+ volunteers to make the 3-day festival a success. Groups and individuals alike are encouraged to register to be a volunteer and make an impact in their community.<\/p>\n<p>All applications may be submitted online or by downloading a paper copy at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.riversandspires.com\/applications\" >www.riversandspires.com\/applications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the festival contact Karyl Kirkland: 931.245.4346 or <a href=\"mailto:Karyl@visitclarksvilletn.com\">Karyl@visitclarksvilletn.com<\/a>; or Lori Barnes: 931.245.4347 or <a href=\"mailto:Lori@visitclarksvilletn.com\">Lori@visitclarksvilletn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers and Spires Vendor and Participant Applications Now Being Accepted Clarksville, TN &#8211; Now in its 14th year, the Rivers and Spires Festival will return to Downtown Clarksville on April 14th-16th, 2016, with five stages of entertainment, more than 100 performers and countless attractions. Fun, family-friendly and always free, the award winning Rivers and Spires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[825,1266,16096,17418,27421,27422,6597,5780,22606,6598,5738,14204],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-5Gu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21855,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21854\/revisions\/21855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}