Creative Clay — a nonprofit that specializes in nurturing and promoting local artists with disabilities — hosts its second annual FolkFest St. Pete, a free outdoor folk art and music festival held in downtown St. Petersburg this weekend. More than 60 visual artists and 20 performers and presenters are featured on two separate stages over the course of the two-day event. The side stage is devoted to family-friendly activities like seed planting, candle making, bee keeping, butter making and group drumming circles. On the festival's main stage, Florida-based musicians Del Suggs, the Green Grass Boys, James Peterson, the Porchdogs, Lonely Heroes, Have Gun Will Travel and the Heavy Pets perform on Saturday. Katie Grace Helow, Paper Cranes, Rebekah Pulley, Lucid Druid, Pickford Sundries and Rod MacDonald take the stage on Sunday, with a special tribute to the Beatles rounding out the musical bill. Food vendors abound as well and in accordance with this year's "going green" theme, local environmental organizations provide recycling bins to keep the area clean and The Earthlings duo present two shows on "Recycling, Composing, and Saving the Earth." Sept. 27-28, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun., Central Avenue between 11th and 13th Streets N., St. Petersburg, free admission, 727-825-0515.
