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Ashland festival kicks off season
The opening gala for the Festival of Trees and Trains is held at the Paramount Arts Center on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, in Ashland.
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ASHLAND -- Ashland continued its kickoff of the holiday season with an upscale premiere night for the 25th annual Festival of Trees and Trains at the Paramount Arts Center.
The eight-day Festival of Trees and Trains continues through Sunday, Nov. 29.
Festival tickets are $6 for ages 13 to 54, $4 for those 55 and over and children ages 3-12. It is free for children under 3.
There's also a big healthy food festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, in the 900 block of 3rd Avenue in Huntington. It is being hosted by "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," a healthy eating and living reality show that Oliver and his crew have been filming in Huntington for the past few months.
Country music group Rascal Flatts will perform a free 30-minute concert at 2:30 p.m. inside the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center. Five hundred tickets have been given away, with many more to be given out to those who attend the food festival.
The concert also will be broadcast live onto 3rd Avenue, where more than 30 vendors will be selling wholesome foods that match Oliver's all-nature theme.
Back in Ashland, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, 1509 Winchester Ave., invites the public to check out its festive Christmas decorations. The bureau is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
WHEN AND WHERE: Nov. 21-29 at the Paramount Arts Center in Ashland.
TICKETS: Prices are $6 for ages 13 to 54, $4 for those 55 and over and children ages 3 to 12. It is free for children under 3.
HOURS: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Nov. 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28; noon to 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22; 4 to 10 p.m. Thanksgiving; noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29.
SPECIALS: $10 a family from 3-9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, parade day. Late night admission, from 8 to 9 p.m., is $10 per carload up to seven and $20 per van load up to 15.
Full details and schedule is available online at www.paramountartscenter.com.
