Artists and food vendors will converge on Cave Spring’s Rolater Park on Saturday and Sunday and they’ll be joined by thousands of festivalgoers as the 34th Annual Cave Spring Arts Festival returns.

Event co-chair Shirley Boyles said this year’s event will include over 100 vendors. But they’re not all artisans.

“We’ve had a big interest in booths for food vendors,” Boyles said. “This year we’ve had so many calls. Everyone wants to sell food.”

Aside from the arts and crafts, vendors will be selling home cooked barbecue, home-made ice cream, hot dogs and hamburgers, fried pies, pinto beans and corn bread as well as cotton candy, funnel cakes and corn-on-the-cob.

But it is an arts festival, after all. Boyles said this year’s variety of arts and crafts will not disappoint.

Artists from North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina will be exhibiting and selling woodcrafts, pottery, gourd birdhouses, hand-painted glass, folk art and jewelry as well as candles, handbags and even live plants and cedar furniture.

As part of the festival, a 5k run and mile-long walk takes place at Georgia School for the Deaf starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday. A pancake breakfast and award ceremony follows, with all proceeds benefiting the athletic programs at GSD.

Boyles said she is expecting several thousand festivalgoers throughout the weekend.

Live entertainment will be provided on both days.

The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Attractions include a juried art show, local food vendors, live music, tours of historic Rolater Park buildings and a 5k road race on Saturday.

Admission is $4. Children under 12 enter free.

The event is sponsored by the Cave Spring Historical Society. For additional information, call 706-777-8546.