The Fall Heritage Festival in Cowan will fill the streets on Sept. 18-20, collaborating this year with Cowan Center for the Arts, which received a grant from the State of Tennessee to celebrate the Tennessee America 250 Celebration.

The Fall Heritage Festival is a free three-day event featuring three days of music on three stages, two nights of fireworks display, a kids’ zone, the popular Antique Engines & Tractors exhibit, a quilt display at the Center for the Arts, the Cowan Railroad Museum, 175 vendor booths of crafts and food exhibits, and a parade on Saturday with the theme “Red, White, and YOU!” This year opening ceremonies take place from the main stage on Friday at 4 p.m., followed by festival kickoff with the Stones River Reelers for the Cumberland Community Dance square dancing.

Saturday night entertainment will feature headliner Confederate Railroad on the Main Stage. Confederate Railroad first rolled onto the national country music scene in the early ‘90s with its unique style and sound and would go on to chart 18 total hits such as “Queen of Memphis” and “Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind.” Also playing on the main stage sponsored by Denby’s J&J Construction, Moore-Cortner Funeral Home, and Watson Funeral Home & Memorial Park, Allie Colleen, Cody McCarver, and Legacy.

The Cowan Center for the Arts Tennessee America 250 grant is bringing a wide array of local Tennessee traditional, bluegrass, and Americana music to the Fall Heritage Festival Tennessee Avenue Stage: Ben Ayers with the Yellow Dandies, Todd Elgin and the Ukedelics, songsters and songstresses Sarah Mallory, Ida York, and Morgan Clonce, the Freedonia Bluegrass Band, the Faith String band, the Hand Family Band, Chuck Holcomb and Friends, and Final Crossing.

On Saturday the Cowan Center for the Arts theater will feature a patriotic showcase by Let’s Make a Note and a presentation of traditional music by Rainey Gray, Glen Kosiorek, and other local musicians.

The Front Street Stage will feature the acts Orange Charlie, James County, Hank Cawthorne, Conner Brooke, Easy Street Sunday, Secret Commonwealth, and Patton James and the Syncromatics.

A complete schedule of performance times and daily events will be available at <www.fallheritagefestival.org> or <www.facebook.com/FallHeritageFestivalCowanTn>.