COLUMBUS MAGNOLIA DAYS FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND

  

The Magnolia Days Festival returns this weekend to Columbus.

The courthouse square will be filled today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday) with live music, shopping, food and drinks, and family-friendly activities.  The festival is open today from 5 to 11:30 p.m. and tomorrow from noon to 11:30 p.m.

The slate of events includes the Magnolia Days 5K Run/Walk and Kids’ Mile, a car show, a historic homes tour, a biergarten and wine garden, and a family fun zone with a petting zoo, inflatables, a dunking booth and carnival games.

The 2025 Magnolia Belles will be presented in the courthouse today at 7 p.m. and on the courthouse lawn tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Featured entertainers today will be Darrel Appelt and Songbird Phil at 5 p.m., The Bandits at 6:30 p.m., VHS: a 90’s Party Experience at 8 p.m. and Carson Jeffrey at 10 p.m.  Tomorrow will open with Joey McGee and special guests at 2 p.m., followed by Bayou Roux at 4 p.m., Southbound 955 at 6 p.m., David Lewis at 8 p.m., and closing with headliner Bri Bagwell at 10 p.m.

Admission to the festival is free.  To learn more, go to https://magnoliadays.org.