​The first ever Smithville Music Festival took place last Saturday with performances scattered throughout the downtown area.​Notable artists included Larryland Blues Band, Chubby Knuckle Choir, Winter Dawn and Rian Castillo. The main stage was placed in a blocked off section on Main Street. Other contributing venues were Fat Cat Lounge & Cafe, Honey’s Pizza and Huebel’s Bier Garden. ​The festival organizers, Victoria Allen, Jeannie Ralph, Tootsie Warnke and Larry Wilson, hope to make strides each year so the festival steadily grows. They wanted this year’s event to be relatively small-scale, though, to avoid the possibility of feeling overmatched as first time organizers. ​“We did ...