Saturdays (and some Sundays) throughout the Summer

Enhance your Aquarium visit with a trip to the Chattanooga River Market beginning June 5th. Each Saturday this summer the Aquarium plaza will be filled with music and some of the area’s finest arts and crafts. Staying the weekend? Check out the nearby Chattanooga Market on the city’s southside on Sunday. Both markets complement the already culturally-rich tourism experience that Chattanooga has become known for.

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Angela Easterling was raised in the South Carolina foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Much of her childhood was spent on the Greer, SC farm that has been in her family since 1791, seven generations. She embraced her heritage in a big way as a writer and an artist on her debut album, "Earning Her Wings", chosen as "Americana Pick of the Year" by Smart Choice Music. Her second album, “BlackTop Road”, produced by Will Kimbrough, was released in July ’09, landing in the top 5 for adds to the Americana radio charts and debuting on the Americana top 40 chart in September, where it remained for 7 weeks. It has been highly praised in the press and was chosen as a top pick in both Oxford American and Country Weekly. The title song tells of her family's struggle to hold onto their farmland in the face of widespread development and represents a bold new step in her singing and songwriting. She was selected for an official Americana Convention Showcase and also named a 2009 & 2010 Kerrville New Folk Songwriting Finalist. The Boston Herald named her song “The Picture” “Best Political Country Song” in their 2009 Year’s best music picks and WNCW listeners chose “BlackTop Road” as one of the top CD’s of 2009 as well as one of the top 20 by regional artists. Angela's music was featured in commercials (Southwestern Bell) and several of her songs were used in the series "Horsepower" on Animal Planet. She appeared alongside music legend Charlie Louvin on WSM radio’s “Music City Roots Live from the Loveless” show and was invited to appear on the WSM-hosted stage at the 2010 CMA Music Festival/Fan Fair, where her entire set was broadcast live. Angela was also recently interviewed by noted NPR journalist Bob Edwards and has received much airplay on Sirius “Outlaw Country”.