Double Decker 2011(Print)

Double Decker 2011

The 16th Annual Double Decker Arts Festival comes back to Oxford on Friday, April 29.

With last year's festival having a small showing because of weather, this year's Double Decker

looks to be promising if more bad weather does not affect it. The famous annual festival will

continue throughout all day Saturday on Oxford Square. The festival will be filled with many

music performers and art exhibits. Double Decker will also have a 10K, 5K, and a kids fun run

on to start Double Decker off on Saturday. The courses during the races go all over The

University of Mississippi campus and around Oxford neighborhoods. Along with the relays and

arts shows, Double Decker will have many musical performances by artist such as Old Crow

Medicine Show, Eric Lindell, and North Mississippi Allstars.

The festivities of Double Decker officially kick off Friday night. At that time, there will

be three performers for Friday night. Okkervil River, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, and

Old Crow Medicine Show will all be performing Friday Night on the south stage setup on the

square. For the event, tickets are $10 for general admission and $25 for V.I.P. area where people

can bring their lawn chairs and enjoy the music. Old Crow Medicine Show is the main headline

band during all of Double Decker. "I'm real excited to watch Old Crow Medicine Show perform

Friday," said sophomore Ole Miss student Brendan Kelley. "I've never seen them perform and I

like their music, so I hope they have a good show for Friday night." Old Crow Medicine Show is

famous for their songs such as "Poor Man" and the very famous college song "Wagon Wheel".

The gates for Friday's performances will open at five p.m. and the show will start around six p.m.

On Saturday, there will be even more performers throughout the whole day performing

on the north and the south ends of the square. Musical performers such as Shooting Out The

Lights, Glen David Andrews, Jimmy Phillips Band, and North Mississippi Allstars. North

Mississippi Allstars is another big name group that will be performing at this year's Double

Decker. They will be the closing performers for Double Decker on that Saturday night on the

north stage of the square at seven p.m.

Besides all the music performances going on throughout Double Decker, there will be

several art exhibits around the square. Hundreds of artist around the Mississippi area and all over

will have their works of art setup for viewing and for selling their pieces of work. There will be

different varieties of art to buy such as paintings, pottery made by hand, wood sculptors, and

many more different items that spectators can buy. If people want to keep buying things on the

square during Double Decker, many of the stores on the square are having sales to celebrate the

annual festival in Oxford.

Along with Double Decker having the whole square packed with entertainment and

things to buy, there will also be many food vendors from local restaurants around the Oxford

area. Many famous places around Oxford such as The Rib Cage, Two Stick, Rooster's Blues

House, Oby's, and Taylor grocery will have stands along the streets of the square that will be

serving many of these different places most famous food items. "Being from Texas, I have never

gone to Double Decker, but I have heard it's so much fun." Austin Harris, a freshmen Ole Miss

student from Dallas, Texas, says about the two day event. "I'm really excited to go this year and

I'm ready to hear the good music and have a fun-filled Saturday."

Being that it is called Double Decker, there will be free rides all day Saturday on an

authentic English double decker bus. The double decker will have routes from ten miles long to

up to over sixty miles long. These bus rides on the double decker will span all over Lafayette

County and through Oxford itself. The double decker bus rides will begin at nine a.m. on

Saturday morning and continue during the entire day, so there will be plenty of chances for

everyone to ride the famous double decker to celebrate the festival. With many performers

playing Friday night and all day Saturday, and all the art exhibits that will be covering the

square, this year's Double Decker should be as fun and successful as any other Double decker

these past eighteen years.