The Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus viticulture and enology will have a booth set up at the 2012 Altus Grape Fest held Friday and Saturday, July 27 and 28, in Altus City Park.
The following is schedule of events:
Friday, July 27
- 5 p.m. – Rat Sass Band
- 6:30 p.m. – Celebrity Grape Stomp
- 7 p.m. – Bacchus & Lady Bacchus Look-Alike Contest
- 7:30-8:30 p.m. – Rat Sass Band
- 8:30-11 p.m. – Street Dance, Live Music by “Brandon Butler” Band
- (Wine tasting 5-8 p.m.)
Saturday, July 28
- 7:30-9 a.m. – Sausage/Biscuit/Gravy Breakfast
- 8 a.m. – Music
- 9 a.m. – Amateur Wine entry deadline, The Gathering Place
- 9 a.m. – Stan Bates and Jason Strode
- 9:30 a.m. – Crooked and Steep Band
- 9:30 a.m. – Public Grape Stomp Competition (Arkansas Atty. Gen. Dustin McDaniel, Sheriff Anthony Boen to compete in stomp)
- 10:15-10:45 a.m. – Musician/singer Andy Fox
- 10:30 a.m. – Public Grape Stomp Competition
- 10:45-11 a.m. – Stan Bates and Jason Strode
- 11 a.m. – Grape Pie-Eating Contest
- 11:15 a.m. – noon – Crooked and Steep Band
- noon – Welcome, Blessing, Vine Cutting
- 12:30-1 p.m. – Stan Bates and Jason Strode
- 12:30 p.m. – Public Grape Stomp Competition
- 1 p.m. – Waiter/Waitress Tray Races
- 1-1:30 p.m. – Jennifer Ford
- 1:30 p.m. – Public Grape Stomp Competition
- 1:30-2:30 p.m. – “Some Guy Named Robb” Band
- 2 p.m. – Kid’s Water Balloon Toss
- 2:30 p.m. – Public Grape Stomp Competition
- 2:30-3 p.m. – Jeff Coley, Stan Bates, Jason Strode
- 3-4 p.m. – “Some Guy Named Robb” Band
- 3:30 p.m. – Public Grape Stomp Competition
- 4 p.m. – Amateur Winemaking Contest Results
- 4:30-5 p.m. – Stan Bates and Jason Strode
- (Wine tasting 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.)