From a marching band festival to a beauty pageant, from first-rank gospel music to a quilt show and a couple of country fairs, numerous local events scheduled this weekend offer a variety of entertainment for all ages.

And it starts tonight.

Here are some of the special highlights of the weekend:

The nationally-famous Chuck Wagon Gang will perform at 7 p.m,. tonight as part of the "Gospel at the Capitol" music series.

The Chuck Wagon Gang, ranked in a recent Southern Gospel Music radio poll as the number one gospel group of all time, will perform on the Capitol Theatre stage with a local group, The Wisecarvers, as the opening act.

Ticket prices are $22 for premium seats or $15 general admission.

A discount is available for groups of 10 or more who reserve by today. Call 638-1300 for reservations or more information.

The annual Greeneville Band Classic will feature 16 marching bands from three states competing Saturday, Oct. 10, at Tusculum College's Pioneer Field.

For the first time in the six-year history of the event, all four Greene County high schools will participate.

The gates open at 11 a.m. Greeneville Middle School eighth-graders will perform the National Anthem at 1:05 p.m.

Competition is scheduled to begin at 1:20 p.m.

Greeneville High School, the host band, will perform an exhibition at 7:50 p.m., followed by the awards ceremony at 8:30 p.m.

The four county high schools will perform at the following times:

* South Greene -- 1:40 p.m.

* North Greene -- 2 p.m.

* Chuckey-Doak -- 2:50 p.m.

* West Greene -- 3:50 p.m.

Admission to the Greeneville Band Classic is $5, with free admission for children ages 5 and under.

For more information, visit the event's Web site at www.gcschools.net/tusculum/band/main.htm.

The Miss Greene County Scholarship Pageant will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center.

The theme this year is "The Bond Girls" as in "Bond ... James Bond."

This is a preliminary pageant to the Miss Tennessee Pageant, which is itself a preliminary to the Miss America Pageant.

Ticket prices are $10 for adults, $5 for students, and free for children ages 12 and under.

Reservations may be made by calling the NPAC box office at 638-1679 between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

For more information, visit www.missgreenecountytn.com.

Rural Resources will hold its annual Farm Arts Festival from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at 2870 Holley Creek Road. Admission is free.

The festival will feature traditional music, food made with local farm-raised ingredients, an antique tractor show, hand-made Appalachian crafts, cooking and gardening demonstrations.

Lots of farm fun including games and activities for kids will be available, as well as the opportunity to meet goats, chickens, and llamas, and to milk Bella the Cow.

Self-guided tours of the farm will allow a stroll through the garden, featuring vegetables that Mission Kitchen and American Farmer teen groups have placed strategically. The teen groups also will serve locally grown, locally prepared food.

Musical performances will include JB & The Honeybeans, Jim Gates and the Key Keepers, Ras Allan, Richard Spain & Friends, Joyce Carrol, Oona Love, and a youth dance team.

For more information, visit www.ruralresources.net.

Still Hollow Farm, located along the Nolichucky River at 3005 W. Allens Bridge Road, will host its first annual "Fall A-Fair" on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 10-11.

The event is a fundraiser for the Nathanael Greene Museum and is being held in conjunction with the month-long quilt exhibit in October.

Hours will be Saturday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 11, from 1 to 5 p.m.

The Fall A-Fair will feature several farm art demonstrations and displays, including quilt displays, basket-weaving, woodworking, and an apple cider press.

A living history demonstration of early American life and the Civil War era will also be part of the two-day event.

Also featured will be storyteller Kate Agmann, of the Jonesborough Storytellers Guild, who will be telling tales about the farm.

The 1860s Civilian Society of East Tennessee will also demonstrate period dances, and local artists will be on hand for special children's activities.

For more information, call Ann Birdwell at 638-3967 or go online at www.stillhollowfarm.com.

In conjunction with the Fall A-Fair, the quilt show at the Nathanael Greene Museum, "A History of Greene County Quilts, 1830-1950," will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10.

Famed quilting author and historian Merikay Waldvogel, of Knoxville, will be at the museum on Saturday. (The museum is closed on Sundays and Mondays.)

Waldvogel will evaluate quilts brought to the museum that day, offering information such as the pattern and age of each quilt.

With the regular $5 admission to the quilt show, each visitor can have one quilt evaluated by Waldvogel.

On display at the museum through Saturday is a fundraiser quilt with 81 squares based on the Barn Quilt murals of the Appalachian RC&D Council's Quilt Trail of Northeast Tennessee.

Raffle tickets for the quilt, made by the First Frontier Quilters, are on sale now and will be sold through Oct. 29. The cost of the tickets is $2 each or 3 for $5.

The winning ticket will be drawn on October 30th during the WJHL Channel 11 Morning News with Josh Smith.

The purpose of this raffle is to support the maintenance and growth of the trail, farmland preservation, and to help preserve and promote the art of quilting.

For more information on the raffle, visit www.QuiltTrail.org.

For more information on the quilt show, visit www.nathanaelgreenemuseum.com.

A "Natural and Local Products and Healing Arts Fair" will be held this Sunday afternoon, Oct. 11, from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Greene County Fairgrounds.

Admission is free.

The event will include more than 25 booths featuring natural healing vendors of all kinds, offering aromatherapy, chiropractic care, healing and spiritual arts, massage therapy, and many others.

Free 30-minute seminars on health, natural living and spirituality also will be held.

Children's activities, music and door prizes also will be featured.

For more information, call Shannon Miller at 1-877-320-0352.

In addition to these special one-time events, of course, there are many other events of interest in the town and county, including special all-you-can-eat fundraising meals sponsored by churches or organizations, Lord's Acre Sales hosted by churches, and other organization-sponsored events.

And that doesn't include regular attractions of interest such as the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, which is open almost every day of the year, including weekends, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and the Bewley City Garage Car Museum, 210 S. Main St., which is open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Admission to the Andrew Johnson Visitors Center and Tailor Shop, 101 N. College St., is free. There is no charge for tours of the Andrew Johnson Homestead, but it is necessary to sign up in advance at the Visitors Center.

The admission charge for the Car Museum is $5 per person. Children under six years of age are admitted free.