All events are taken from the Murfreesboro Post Community Calendar, which can be found at www.murfreesboropost.com/mod/comcal.

Spookacular Happenings

The 8th annual Barfield Halloween Bash began Wednesday and continues through Saturday.

Barfield Bash is celebrating its eighth year at Barfield Crescent Park, on Barfield Crescent Road, with Murfreesboro’s scariest hayride: Old Scream Road. The haunted hayride starts at dark each night. Admission is $5 to see Michael Myers, the girl from the Ring and all sorts of scary stuff. 

A Not-So-Haunted Trail is perfect for little goblins and is planned for 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Admission is $3. Game tickets are 50 cents. There will be music, cake walks, games and prizes.

The Spooky Nights Carnival is from 5-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and will be will packed with carnival games, face painting, music, dancing, costume and pumpkin carving contests. The carnival is free, concessions and game tickets ($0.50 each) will be sold.

Barfield Crescent Park is located at 697 Barfield Crescent Rd.

For more information, please contact Thomas Laird at 615-867-4913 or email tlaird@murfreesborotn.gov.

Sponsored by the La Vergne Parks and Recreation Department, the Trail of Treats is a tradition in North Rutherford County. This free event is set for 2-4 p.m. Saturday at Veterans Memorial Park on Floyd Mayfield Drive in La Vergne.

Kids of all ages should wear their costumes for a few hours of fun, visiting booths and playing games like “Jumping Through The Pumpkin Patch,” “Grave Digging for Candy” and transversing the spider web course.

The Avenue Murfreesboro will feature trick and treating and entertainment from 3-5 p.m. Saturday.  In addition to collecting candy, activities include interactive art stations, balloon artist, face painting and more.

Oaklands Historic House Museum, 900 N. Maney Ave., holds a variety of historical Halloween themed events.

Oaklands holds Mourning by Candlelight, a tour of Evergreen Cemetery and Oaklands Mansion, and Headstones, Hearses and Heartaches: A Mourning Melodrama, a theatrical one-act play in Maney Hall Friday and Saturday.

Both the candlelight tour and the play require reservations. Call 615-893-0022 or visit www.oaklandsmuseum.org.

Explore Victorian mourning customs all October with Widows, Weepers and Wakes: Mourning Customs Exhibit and through Nov. 3 with Headstones, Hearses and Heartaches: A Mourning Customs Exhibit. 

The Sam Davis Home, 1399 Sam Davis Rd., in Smyrna, will be prepared for a funeral with mirrors draped in black cloth and clocks stopped at the time of death during A House in Mourning: Expression of Mourning Customs in the 19th Century from Oct. 8-Nov. 2.

Friday and Saturday offers a full weekend of haunted happenings at the Sam Davis Home.

The weekend features Ghost Tours beginning with a haunted hayride of the plantation. Once the hayride comes to a dead stop, enter the historic home to hear tour guides share their own strange experiences from beyond. The tour is not recommended for anyone under the age of 10.  Admission is $5.

On Saturday Oct. 25, A Frightful Night at the Sam Davis Home will feature a catered dinner, a scary movie and all that is included in Ghost Tours. First enjoy dinner and a movie before embarking on a haunted hayride of the plantation and guided ghost tours of the Sam Davis Home.  Reservations are required. Call 615-459-2341.

Festivals

Celebrate fall at Cannonsburg with the annual Harvest Days and Fiber Festival from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.

It’s a celebration of the season with old-time music, clogging and traditional fiber artists. Free admission. 

Cannonsburgh is located at 312 S. Front St.  just across Broad Street from City Hall.

Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center holds a Heritage Festival at 10 a.m. Saturday at 415 South Academy St.

Again, the top attraction if the Turnip Green Cook-off. First prize is $500, $300 second place, and third place is $200.

For more information, call 615-867-2633 or visit www.bradleymuseum.org.

Rock Springs Church in Smyrna holds a Fall Festival from 4-6 p.m. Sunday at Rock Springs Elementary, 1000 Waldron Rd. in LaVergne.

The festival features a hot dog roast with all the fixins, a chili cookoff, bounce house, games, candy, toys and trunk-or-treat for kids of all ages. The event is free and open to the public.

Call the church office at 615-220-2220 for more information or visit www.rockspringschurch.com.

Walter Hill First Baptist Church Fall Festival featuring Slime Time activities will take place at 5 p.m. Sunday at 6607 Lebanon Pk.

There will be activities for all ages. Each area will feature an activity and a word from the Lord. Parents will be able to enjoy a Coffee Cafe as the children enjoy 10 different activities.

Contact the church at 615-890-2819 for directions or any other questions.

Concerts

MTSU Jazz Combos take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of Wright Music Building.

E-mail concert questions to tmusselm@mtsu.edu or call 615-898-2493.

Contest of Champions takes to the field of Floyd Stadium all day Saturday Call 615-898-2103 for tickets.

The First Presbyterian Church on Spring Street presents a concert performance of John Rutter's Requim in celebration of All Saints Day at 6 p.m. Sunday.

This free and open features The Chancel Choir with Orchestra.

For more information call 615-893-3882 or visit www.mborofpc.org.

Murfreesboro Noon Lions Club Yard Sale

The Murfreesboro Noon Lions Club invites the public to a yard sale at the Lion's log cabin in Cannonsburgh.

All the proceeds help the less fortunate get eye exams and glasses.

If you wish to donate items to be placed in this yard sale, bring them to the Cannonsburgh log cabin between 4-6 p.m. Friday.

For more information, call Melissa at 615-491-5372.

Block Party on the Boro Square

Friends of David Laws are throwing a "Block Party on the Square" to raise money for his liver transplant.

Come enjoy live music, children's activities and a live auction of great items including: Titan's Game Day Package, a Guitar autographed by Amy Grant and Vince Gill and other items.

For additional information, visit www.savedavidlaws.com or call Jolene Messmer at 615-202-7096.

If you have an event you’d like included, contact Michelle Willard at 615-869-0816 or mwillard@murfreesboropost.com.