CLEARFIELD – Clearfield County’s official welcome to the summer season kicks off Thursday with free, family-style entertainment.
The annual Clearfield Riverfront Festival starts Thursday with vendors opening at noon. The festival runs through Saturday night in Clearfield’s Lower Witmer Park.
From steak-on-a-stick to candy apples and hot sausage to cotton candy, all types of food will be up for sampling through the three-day event. Craft vendors with various baubles, knickknacks and trinkets of all sorts will also be on hand each day. Festival-goers can also expect free, live entertaiment every day of the festival.
A new feature has been added to the festival this year. An Education Expo will take place at the pavillion near the Susquehanna River Thursday through Saturday with representatives from area colleges and schools available at various times between noon and 7 p.m.
Vendors will remain open throughout the day and evening Thursday with Serious Jones providing entertainment beginning at 7 p.m. Clearfield native Matt Day, guitarist with the band Green Eggs, returns to the festival with his solo show.
Stands will once again open at noon Friday, with Hot Foot Harry playing at 8 p.m.
Saturday promises a day filled with events. Vendors open at noon, allowing time for competitors in the second annual Diaper Derby to fuel up for the race.
The Diaper Derby is a free event, open to children ages 24 months and under. Competitors should come ready to race and with one adult for each end of the course.
Generation Z takes to the stage at 4 p.m. Generation Z is comprised of 11- and 12-year-old boys from Clearfield, Grampian, Philipsburg and Osceola.
Randy Clark and the Renegade Ride will play original country music as well as some favorites beginning at 8 p.m. Fireworks will light up the sky at 10 p.m. with Randy Clark and the Renegade Ride continuing their performance after the fireworks.