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It’s Peach Festival time in Ruston! The 2011 Squire Creek Louisiana Peach Festival is the fourth weekend in June. The fun begins on Friday, June 24 and runs through Saturday, June 25. Admission is charged for ages 7 and over.

There´s live music downtown nightly on the Railroad Park stage beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday with Left Arm Tan, a Fort Worth, Texas-based alternative country band. Saturday also features music in the park beginning at 7 p.m. with a return appearance by Chasing Daylight.

Also making a return festival appearance, this year’s headliner, Percy Sledge! The show begins at 9 p.m. Saturday in Railroad Park. Tickets are $10. The legendary rock-in-roll singer packed the park – and the streets beyond – in 2007. Sledge, a Mississippi native, jumped to almost instant fame in 1966 with the soul song “When A Man Loves A Woman.” The song was the first Southern soul record to top the charts.

The festival also includes approximately 200 artisans and vendors of all types, both at Railroad Marketplace and at the Ruston Civic Center. Railroad Marketplace is open Friday-Saturday; the Civic Center, Saturday only. There is a parade, antique cars, a rodeo, tennis tournament, 5K run, cookery contest and more.