AUSTIN, Texas — The Pecan Street Festival, a free, two-day arts festival that occurs semi-annually in downtown Austin, returns this weekend to the Sixth Street Historic District. 

For over three decades, the festival has provided Austinites with a diverse artistic odyssey in many mediums, including metal, wood, fiber, clay, leather, glass and stone to repurposed materials of all kinds. 

Known additionally for the food and music the experience offers, the Pecan Street Festival is a feast for all the senses. 

The festival will run Saturday, Sept. 14, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 15, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Spectrum News 1 will be on-site all day Saturday, with free giveaways and opportunities to meet some of our on-air personalities. 

The schedule for those meet-ups is as follows:

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

  • Ricky Cody - Chief Meteorologist
  • Courtney Aitken - Meteorologist
  • Maddie Kirker - Meteorologist

3 p.m - 5 p.m.

  • Victor Diaz - Anchor

More information is available at the Pecan Street Festival website