Weekend Radar: Rodeo, Watermelon, Manchester Manifest, Many Mini-Monster Trucks

On the Radar

Bulls Broncs Barrels – Pro rodeo is in Doswell this weekend. There bull riding, bronc riding, and barrel racing. No barrels won’t be racing. You’ll see riders zip around barrels at a frankly frightening rate of speed. This event is rain or shine so the rain on Saturday won’t keep a cowboy or cowgal down.

• Meadow Event Park | 13048 Meadow Farm Rd Doswell  | 8pm, Friday – Saturday, Aug. 6-7th | $10-$15 | Tickets

Carytown Watermelon Festival – The festival of watermelon is back. If walking down Cary Street with thousands and thousands of others while munching on watermelon is your jam get ready. With 80 musicians, over 100 exhibitors, one of the largest kids areas of any festival on the east coast and all of the great Carytown style, the Carytown Watermelon Festival has become the largest one-day festival in the state of Virginia.

• Carytown | Pretty much all of Cary Street in Carytown | 10am-6pm, Sunday, Aug. 8th | Free | Official Website

Below the Radar

Manchester Manifest First Fridays -We’re back for our 4th year and we’ve moved to Hull Street! We are literally shutting the block down and filling it with live music, live art, local vendors, Blackwell/Manchester businesses, mutual aid orgs, food trucks, outdoor bars and YOU! If you know, you know…

• Hull Street in Manchester | 1309 Hull St | 5 – 8 PM, First Friday of Every Month | Free | Facebook Page

Many Mini-Monster Truck Rally – Remote control monster trucks and their operators will battle it out this weekend to determine who is the monster truckiest. Racers from Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Maryland, and Illinois will compete for trophies and awards. The free event will include more than 300 remote control monster trucks – patterned after real monster trucks

• Double Tree Hotel | 1021 Koger Center Blvd. | Races 8 AM – 5 PM, Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 7-8th | Free | Facebook Page