Music will ring out during the Hemlock Festival

The organizers of this year’s South Carolina Hemlock Festival promise festival goers can expect an array of musical entertainment from the stage at Mountain Rest.  The lineup of musical entertainers features a number of local groups in the following order April 20:  Cade Vissage; Carolina Backroads; Conservation Theory; Cannon Cohen Trio; Wheeler; Euphrates Benz; Modern Mammals; and Binge.  The overall purpose Saturday, April 20 will be to raise awareness of the poison that is killing Hemlock trees.  Several info presentations are planned.  The festival will open at 11 o’clock in the morning on the grounds of the Mountain Rest Community Club; admittance is free of charge.