Double Decker

This weekend is the sixteenth annual Double Decker Arts Festival weekend. There will be art, food, music, and a spring run that will be taking place this weekend.

Friday, starts off with a concert featuring Okkervill River, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, and Old Crown Medicine Show. Saturday starting at 11:00 will feature artists as Rising Fife and Drum, Valerie June, Shooting Out The Lights, Eric Lindell and Glen Davis Andrews. As for Sunday Aaron Hall, Jimmy Philipps Band, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Justin Townes Earle, and North Mississippi Allstars will be playing starting at 11:30.

There will also be a Spring Run. There will be four different kinds of runs. There will be a 10K Run, 5K Run,5K Competitive Walk, and a Kids Fun Run. The course will go through Ole Miss’s campus and Oxford Neighborhoods. Both courses are fit for competing athletes and for the beginners.

“I cannot wait for this weekend, I am a freshmen from out of state so this will be my first double decker weekend,” freshmen Madeline Bell said. With the increase in freshmen this year, Double Decker is expecting to have record setting crowds.

“My sister is a freshmen at Ole Miss this year and I am excited to be able to to withe her to double decker weekend, I am really excited how we are going to run the 5k together,” sister of a student Ashley Eskind said. Even with all of the fun and games of Double Decker weekend, they wanted to stress importance of fitness and exercise. This is an important topic to stress since the state of Mississippi is the highest in obesity.

Whether you want to run a 5K, listen to live music or just fo to the art fair this weekend is the time to do it. The 16th annual Double Decker weekend is April 29-30, down town Oxford, MS.