VIDALIA — After 75 years, the Vidalia Garden Club plans to do it up big Sept. 15.

The club, founded in 1932, will have a gala celebration at the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center to celebrate its 75 years of history, Vidalia Garden Club Publicity Chairwoman Una Knapp said.

Registration at the event will begin at 9:30 a.m., and admission will be $25.

Those who wish to attend need to RSVP no later than Saturday, Knapp said.

The event will feature a display of memorabilia from 1933 and a complete collection of the club’s yearbooks from 1933 to 2007.

Materials from Louisiana Garden Club Federation from years prior to the Vidalia Garden Club’s founding will also be on display.

The VGC cookbook — with recipes from the “Old Town” and the present Vidalia — will be on sale, as well as a LGC publication with contributions from Vidalia members, Knapp said.

High Cotton will cater lunch.

Entertainment at the event will include:

4Ann Siddall, a Vidalia resident who will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Siddall practices law in Vidalia and serves as the city prosecutor.

Joshua Roberts, associate pastor of worship at First Baptist Church in Vidalia, will accompany Siddall on the piano.

4Concordia Parish Clerk of Court Clyde Ray Webber will be the keynote speaker at the event.

4Sylvia Johns Ritchie will provide musical entertainment, as well as Bob Sasser and Lansing Brakenridge.

Ritchie is the piano and vocal instructor at Easterling Music Co., in Vidalia and has performed vocally and on the piano in venues from New Orleans to Las Vegas to London.

Sasser is a longtime musical performer and currently directs singing at the Sevier Memorial United Methodist Church in Ferriday.

Sasser also serves as the president of St. Joseph Arts, Inc.

Brakenridge is a 10-year-old student of Ritchie who has performed at several local events and was recently rated “superior” by the National Federation of Music Festival in Alexandria.

Brakenridge attends Cathedral School and lives with her parents Charles and Georgeanne Brankenridge and brother Chase on Lake Concordia.

Those wishing to attend should contact Dolly Smith at 318-336-7547.