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Rivers and Spires Festival

Presented by Clarksville-Montgomery County CVB

April 15-April 17, 2010

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Rivers and Spires Festival is a three day outdoor event in Historic Downtown Clarksville. It features a night of patriotic tribute to military heroes, seven stages of entertainment, an International Streetfest, International House of Brewers, Kidz Zone, Jazz 'N Wine area, marketplace, car shows, parades, Virtual Army Experience, Finger Football Tournament, artz galore and more. Last year, an estimated 30,000 enjoyed the music, great outdoors, food and people watching. Check out a festival map.

Presented by the Madison Street United Methodist Church Creation Care Committee, the Green Zone is back for a second year. It will have booths dedicated to all things green!

Entertainment provided by: Charlie Daniels Band, Jimmy Hall & The Prisoners of Love, The Texas Tenors, Randy Nations, Chris & Conrad, Big Daddy Weave, and more. Check out the full lineup.

New to the festival this year is the Virtual Army Experience (VAE). If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be an Army soldier, fight in a combat mission or cross into enemy territory, then you need to check it out. The VAE is like America’s Army computer game, and provides participants with a virtual test drive of the United States Army, with state-of-the-art Army training simulation technology to create a life-size virtual world. The experience takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.

Visitors enter crew stations in one of six HMMWV simulators, similar to vehicles employed by Army Special Forces, and one of two full-size replicas of UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopters. Each HMMWV and Black Hawk simulator is surrounded by large screens providing a 180-degree battlefield upon which the virtual mission is displayed. HMMWV participants use replica M4 Rifles or M249 SAW’s (Squad Automatic Weapons) that are wired to laser engagement systems similar to existing computerized marksmanship trainers. Other participants enter UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters where they use light arms and provide air coverage against enemy forces.