Pickett Fest Returns to Cooters Pond Park March 28, City Announces Details

The City of Prattville’s Special Events office announced that Pickett Fest, formally the Wilson Pickett Music and Arts Festival, will return Saturday, March 28, 2026, at Cooters Pond Park in Prattville. The city described the event as “the city’s signature free music and arts celebration,” positioning the festival as a centerpiece of Prattville’s spring Celebration of the Arts.

City and festival web pages identify the program and site features while stopping short of a full performance lineup. “Wilson Pickett Music and Arts Festival is an annual event held in Cooters Pond Park in Prattville, Alabama, celebrating the arts and the legacy of Wilson Pickett, a Prattville native. Festivities include an entertainment stage, food vendors, children’s activities, and an artist village, featuring local and regional artists representing a variety of media,” the festival materials say. Those listings remain the most detailed public summary of what organizers plan to offer on March 28.

Organizers have opened vendor and artist registration through the Special Events office. “For more information about registration, please call the Special Events office at 334-595-0850 or visit wilsonpickettfestival.com,” the festival posting instructs, and the Prattville site also lists prattvilleal.gov and wilsonpickettlegacy.com for event information. Prattville City Hall’s address, 101 West Main Street, appears on municipal pages as the government contact location for festival administration.

The festival appears on public event directories as well: the FestivalNet listing for the Wilson Pickett Music and Arts Festival shows the venue as Cooters Pond Park, Prattville, AL 36067, and carries a community rating of 4.40/5. FestivalNet’s administrative note remains tied to the city account: “This event is registered to City of Prattville. The email address that has control of this account is my∗∗∗ @ prattvilleal.gov. You must login with this email to update this event. If you do not have the password for this account and don't have access to this email (to have the password reset for you), please contact support@festivalnet.com to gain access to this event.”

City and social postings also highlight related programming from prior years without confirming a 2026 lineup. Prattville’s news feed, citing a WSFA item, notes that high school students from Ellwood Christian Academy performed a piece called “Selma Again” during past arts programming. An Instagram excerpt preserved on the city site reads, “Join us in Wilson's hometown of Prattville at the annual Wilson Pickett Music and Arts Festival for a video presentation of ‘In the Midnight’,” though that line is truncated in the posting and the full title and scheduling details were not included.

The Special Events office has posted vendor and artist registration contacts and baseline event information; a full schedule of performers, set times, and sponsor listings were not part of the public posting. Organizers have marked the festival as “Returning 2026” on festival pages, and the city’s event pages indicate that schedule updates and further logistical details will be posted to prattvilleal.gov and wilsonpickettfestival.com as they are finalized.