Dickson Mayor Don L. Weiss Jr. will officially light a Christmas tree in downtown Friday, Dec. 1, prior to the start of the annual Christmas parade.
Presented by the City of Dickson’s Parks and Recreation Department, the Christmas tree will be placed in Tom H. Waychoff Memorial Park on the southeast corner of College and Main streets in downtown Dickson.
The lighting ceremony will begin at 5:00 pm Friday, Dec. 1, and feature a performance by local singer/songwriter Daryl Cauthen. Mayor Weiss will flip the switch to light the tree for the holiday season around 5:15 pm and the music will continue until the parade makes its way to downtown.
The Downtown Dickson Association presents the annual parade that starts at 6:30 pm Friday on the campus of Dickson County High School and follows the traditional route into downtown but will turn on East College Street at the site of the city Christmas tree and end on the campus of Dickson Middle School. Lineup on the DCHS campus begins at 4:30 pm.
Cauthen will perform in the park before and after the tree-lighting ceremony until the parade arrives.
A Dickson native, country singer/songwriter Cauthen started playing guitar as a young teen with the help of his uncle and soon after receiving his first guitar. At the age of 15, he wrote his first song: “Queen of My Broken Heart,” which he says is still a crowd favorite at his shows. Cauthen’s repertoire of original songs is now over 100.
Cauthen’s first stage appearance was at Dickson’s Grand Old Hatchery on South Main Street in downtown and has grown to include some of the most iconic stages in Music City. He has performed on stages such as The Wildhorse Saloon and Tootsies Orchid Lounge among other historic venues in downtown Nashville with his former band The Craggie Hope Band, which ran a two-year span singing on various honky tonk stages before the members began starting their own families.
He continues to perform locally and at private events and a new band is being formed and gearing up for future dates.
Cauthen is a successful business owner and operator of Walnut Grove Woodcraft. Together with his wife of 12 years, Tasha, he has three children.
Applications for the Dickson Christmas Parade are available on the Downtown Dickson page on Facebook or at Reading Rock Books, 122 North Main St. The entry fee is $10 through Nov. 15 and $15 after that date. For more information on the Christmas parade, email [email protected] or visit the Downtown Dickson page on Facebook.
The annual Christmas in Downtown Dickson will be 5:00-9:00 pm Saturday, Dec. 2, with a variety of sales and special activities presented by the Downtown Dickson Association.
