{"id":476396,"date":"2026-10-25T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476396\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T16:14:08","slug":"crossroads-of-texas-go-texan-country-festival-draws-in-crowds-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476396\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossroads of Texas GO TEXAN Country festival draws in crowds, vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas&#8217;s largest one-day arts, music, and food festival filled up the heart of downtown <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/waxahachie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Waxahachie<\/a> until mid-evening on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Crossroads of Texas GO TEXAN Country Festival featured hundreds of vendors, multiple music stages, and a free headline concert.<\/p>\n<p>10 different musical acts took the stage throughout the day, bringing the sounds of country to Ellis County.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s estimated that tens of thousands of people, along with some of their four-legged friends, attended the 29th annual festival.<\/p>\n<p>People could shop at more than 200 vendors for this year&#8217;s fair. It even included gluten-free and sugar-free options, as well as more traditional fair-type food. The mom-and-pop shops included everything from pastries and Texas barbecue to candles and jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>Vendor Rob Sellers started the Sellers Bat Company 30 years ago outside of Waco. He makes bats and other wood items by hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to sand them for a long time, for 45 minutes of that time. It takes me about an hour and a half for each bat. I also make bat holders that you can hang up on the wall, and it makes it more of a furniture piece,&#8221; Sellers said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All these vendors are mostly Texas vendors. You&#8217;re spending the money, and it stays in Waxahachie. It stays in Texas, and you can take a little Texas swag home with you,&#8221; Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CBS News Texas<\/a> was a proud sponsor of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Planning for next year&#8217;s festival starts Monday. It&#8217;s expected to happen on Oct. 23, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas&#8217;s largest one-day arts, music, and food festival filled up the heart of downtown Waxahachie until mid-evening on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,8159],"class_list":["post-476396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-waxahachie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}