GREENSBORO, N.C. — As the weekend gets closer and closer, some events taking place on Saturday and Sunday are making sure to stay weather aware.
One of many events happening this weekend is the Balloon Festival sponsored by ALCOVETS.
At Cedar Rock Park in Alamance County, you'll see hot air balloons taking flight, weather permitting.
As an outdoor event with food trucks, vendors, live entertainment, and of course, flying hot air balloons, Balloons Operations Director, Marsha Lambertson, said the weather could impact this event.
"Balloons operate in really fair weather conditions so we like no rain unlimited visibility and nice calm winds,” Lambertson explains.
In severe weather instances, there likely won't be live entertainment at the Balloon Festival, or hot air balloons taking flight.
“If it’s sporadic rain we can work in between that. We will put the balloons in a flight hold in the event of a downpour situation but other than that we will be prepared to perform and put on a good show,“ Lambertson said, optimistic about the weekend weather.
She said there used to be a balloon festival in Alamance County 20 years ago so organizers are eager and ready to get it back up and running, or should we say flying.
"I think it’s important to get back and enjoy the community itself and to support the local community and just have a sense of being a part of something," Lambertson said.
Other events happening this weekend are the Folk Festival and Central Carolina Fair at the Greensboro coliseum.
“The festival is rain or shine we have several venues that are covered either by tents or they are indoors so we encourage people to come out as long as it safe the show is going to go on if we do need to take breaks it’ll probably just be periodic ones we make those announcements from stage but otherwise we encourage people to come down and find a covered or uncovered spot to hang out for the weekend," said President and CEO of the festival, Amy Grossman.
The North Carolina Folk Festival happens every September and features hundreds of artists on different stages with continuous performances.
The Festival has always attracted large crowds of people to the downtown Greensboro area.
“The North Carolina Folk Festival brings incredible opportunity for people to engage with performances to be in community to convene in community and ways where they’re either audience members watching what’s going on, on stage but we also have a lot of ways that people can participate in the art making," explained Grossmann.
This three-day, free, festival starts Friday at Lebauer park.