Ohio Renaissance Festival Answers Request from Family of Deceased Man
Ohio Renaissance Festival Answers Request from Family of Deceased Man
Harveysburg, OH (PRWEB) April 15, 2006
Charlotte Miller and her family will forever remember the date October 8. On this day, Charlotte’s husband, Brett, a passenger in a car driven by son Michael, was tragically killed when an impaired driver rammed their car on the passenger side at a fairly high rate of speed. Just the week before, the Millers had enjoyed yet another visit to Brett’s favorite place – the Ohio Renaissance Festival. Brett would attend several times a season, making the nearly 3 hour drive from Coldwater, OH.
“On March 1st, we received the first email with her ‘rather unique’ request. After hearing her story of an automobile accident which killed her husband and seriously injured her son she had my full attention. Her request to scatter some of her husband’s ashes at our festival site became more meaningful as she explained how much he loved our festival and that it was their practice to attend several times a season,” stated Amy Zimmer, Office Manager of the festival. Zimmer continued, “When I shared this request with management, there was no hesitation to honor her wishes.”
This afternoon, the Miller family traveled down to the Ohio Renaissance Festival, not for a day of entertainment, but for a much more somber event. Brett’s ashes were scattered around 1:15pm in a scenic area of the festival grounds as family and festival staff members watched. As Charlotte stated, “There will be one less jolly pirate in the world.”
As a result of the legalities Charlotte and her family are facing, she hopes to build awareness of her efforts to change laws regarding the rights of victims involved in accidents caused by impaired drivers. “We recently found out that if the person who drove was convicted of a felony (which the charges are) his insurance will not cover anything. . . .So, in order to have the medical bills paid we had to agree on a misdemeanor charge. This is something I have written to all our political people about, to get this changed so that the offenders get their proper punishment,” stated Charlotte.
The Ohio Renaissance Festival will open for its 17th annual season on September 2nd and run eight weekends thru October 22nd including Labor Day confident that Brett will be enjoying the festival as always, each and every day.
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Amado Peña, Jr. is Featured Artist at Palm Springs Arts Festival OktoberFest
Palm Springs, CA (PRWEB) October 16, 2010
Palm Springs Arts Festival is proud to announce that one of America’s most famous and collected artists, Amado Peña, Jr. of Santa Fe, will be Palm Springs Arts Festival’s Featured Artist for the OktoberFest show. Amado’s art (at http://www.penagallery.com) celebrates the strength of the Native American peoples of the Southwest, who met the harsh realities of life in an uncompromising land. His work is a tribute to those who survived by living in harmony with an adversarial, untamed environment.
A recipient of many honors during his more than 30 years as a professional artist, Amado is also an art teacher and an adjunct professor of University of Texas who strongly promotes arts education for our young people.
Amado Peña is recognized as an Artisan of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona. This is a particularly high honor and one that he cherishes. He is dedicated to furthering the public’s knowledge and interest in the Tribe, its art, its history, and its culture.
The first of three Palm Springs Arts Festivals scheduled for this coming Winter Season is October 29-31, 2010 at the Palm Springs Festival Grounds on Crossley Rd at Ramon Rd on the East edge of Palm Springs. Adding to the cultural mix of Palm Springs, 150 award winning Fine Artists and Quality Artisans will gather to dazzle your eyes.
To exhibit their wide variety of Fine Arts and Crafts, these artist selected by a “jury process” are traveling from the across the Country and around the World to display their works in the Desert Resorts Communities. Fabulous jewelry, oils and watercolors, pastels and pencils, glass and steel, photography and assemblage will tantalize your eyes.
Palm Springs Arts Festival seeks to include the many outstanding businesses of Palm Springs and to benefit several local charities and civic organizations through partnerships and networking including the Desert Cancer Foundation (Dr George), http://desertcancerfoundation.org.
All are invited. Admission for adults is only $ 5, under 18 and Active Military are FREE. Parking is FREE!
About Palm Springs Arts Festival: Palm Springs Arts Festival (PSAF) is a group of art enthusiast professionals with event production experience providing Palm Springs, and the surrounding Desert Resort Communities, the highest quality arts and entertainment experience. PSAF works with many local businesses and civic organizations to promote Palm Springs and to support both local civic and charitable organizations. For more information about our festivals please go to http://PalmSpringsArtsFestival.com.
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Revamped “Festival Preview” Serves Value-Minded Music Festival Attendees With Online Festival Guide for 2009
Piedmont CA (PRWEB) December 11, 2008
Festival Preview has rolled out new capabilities to help festival-goers make the most of their entertainment dollars during tough economic times, according to Daniel Ruby, publisher of the comprehensive directory and group blog covering all music festivals in North America.
“A big weekend of fun can be a great value, a small luxury to make up for other cutbacks at a time like this,” Ruby said, explaining that a one-time ticket purchase covers three or four days of entertainment and as many as three dozen acts.
Local and regional festivals may be in the best position to benefit from this new environment. “As people cut back on travel, they will be looking more intensively in their own backyards,” Ruby said. Festival Preview’s guidebook-style festival listings, including lineups, amenities, special features, e-commerce links and more, was designed to be especially helpful to the festival-goer comparing a variety of live music events.
The freshly updated and revamped Festival Preview (http://www.festivalpreview.com) now lists more than 1000 music festivals, including almost 600 with confirmed dates for 2009 and many late-season festivals that have yet to announce. Each festival has a unique page with a detailed basic listing. Upgraded listings for top-tier and participating festivals include additional multimedia features.
The comprehensive database and rich detail pages are among the new features of Festival Preview that will appeal to budget-minded festival-goers seeking musical escape and adventure in leaner economic times. The site also introduced a geographical capability that allows users to access content by any of 19 North American regions in addition to five top-level music genre categories. The blog, directory and news aggregation functions of the site are integrated in a new, highly visual design and built on a robust publishing platform.
Festival Preview serves the market as “the first stop for live music events,” where frequent festival-goers can research festival options and access information and services to enhance their festival experiences. Engaging with the site extends the user’s festival experience from a single day or weekend to a multi-month period before and after the event. This provides festival promoters and marketers an unmatched medium for reaching frequent festival-goers as they are in the process of planning festival trips.
Promoters confident despite downturn
For many 2009 spring and summer festivals, the current off-season is the time to tease fans with preliminary artist lineups and open the box office for holiday and early-bird ticket sales. Heading into the 2009 sales cycle, festival promoters are proceeding with caution but continued confidence that consumers will still turn out for summer music celebrations, Ruby said.
He said that the appeal of festival attendance as an entertainment option remains a constant even in a down market, pointing to the five big new rock festivals that were launched during an already recessionary 2008 and the continued strong audience draw for established festivals. “Smart festival managers are tightening their belts to ride out the economic storm. But the vast majority of festivals will come off as usual next year, though many can expect to see a modest drop-off in business.”
Dan Ruby’s career spans three decades as an editor and publisher in consumer and business publishing. He has been professionally focused on the festival marketplace since 2006.
About Festival Preview
Festival Preview LLC is the publisher of Festival Preview, the one-stop source of daily updated news, opinion and community involvement for North American music festivals of all genres. Festival Preview serves the needs of frequent festival-goers, live music fans who attend multiple music festivals per year. Festival Preview is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.festivalpreview.com.
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Seoul has a lot of unique Festivals all over the year. Especially in Spring time, there are numerous well-known festivals are held in Seoul. All festivals have their own characteristics and you can choose the festivals whatever you want such as flower festivals, amusement park festivals or etc. Also there are a lot of free festivals that you can join and watch as one of performers. (It is surely much fun once you join the performances. Don’t miss out when you get a chance lol) Many exhibitions, non-verbal, and verbal performances can be seen via all over the streets in Seoul. Visit Seoul in Spring time when you enjoy the many high-quality festivals in nice warm weather with friendly laughing Korean ^^)! What’s your favorite festivals of Korea?
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Posted in Travel Festivals | 'Artistic, Amusement Park, City, City Seoul, Exhibitions, festivals, Flower Festivals, Free Festivals, High Quality, Korea, Lot, Seoul, Spring Time, Warm WeatherTourism programmes at the University of Greenwich
www.gre.ac.uk Tourism is the world’s number one industry. And it’s growing. By 2020 it will provide over 250 million jobs. Make one of them yours. Our programmes give you a full understanding of the tourism industry, from the social, cultural and economic environments you could work in, to more general business principles. From managing attractions, airlines and travel agencies, to cultural activities, festivals and city tourism, you’ll have a choice of career options around the world.
2009 TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival
The defining celebration of Whistler, the TELUS World Ski and Snowboard Festival is a 10 day and night showcase of the latest progressions in the skiing and snowboarding world, where even the arts events are packed full of adrenaline. Combining Canadas largest free outdoor concert series with career-making showdowns of action sports and lifestyle fashion, photography and film, the best spring snow conditions, and burn-the-candle nightlife, its a celebration of everything thats core to mountain culture. In 14 years, the TELUS Festival has become North Americas largest annual snow sports and music celebration, spawning imitators around the world, and earning the tag, Mother of All End of Season Parties.
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Posted in Travel Festivals | 2009, Action Sports, Adrenaline, Best Spring, Fashion Photography, Festival, Imitators, Lifestyle Fashion, Mountain Culture, Music Celebration, Night Showcase, Nightlife, Progressions, Season Parties, Ski Snowboard, Skiing And Snowboarding, Snow Conditions, Snow Sports, Snowboard, Sports And Music, Spring Snow, TELUS, world, World SkiIloilo sends off Dinagyang Festival to Aliwan
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Music and Travel – Summer 2010 – Helsinki, Stockholm
Music and Travel presents you video about our summer 2010! Last summer we´ve seen: MUSE, Green Day, U2, The XX, HURTS, Cut Copy, Robyn, The Drums, jj, AIR, MIA, The Radio Dept., LCD Soundsystem, HIM, Editors, The Hives etc in Helsinki and Stockholm! Club Music & Travel vkontakte.ru See you in our trips!
Posted in Travel Festivals | 2010, Club Music, Club Travel, Drums, Editors, Green Day, Helsinki, Helsinki Travel, Hives, Muse, Music, Music Ru, Music Travel, Music Video, Presents, Radio Dept, Stockholm, Stockholm Travel, Summer, Summer Music, Summer Travel, travel, Travel Stockholm, Travel Video, U2, Vkontakte RuIn the Know Traveler Unveils its New Online Travel Magazine
In the Know Traveler Unveils its New Online Travel Magazine
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 21, 2006
After weeks and months of toiling over RSS, CSS, source code, and other confusing things, In The Know Traveler is proud to launch its online travel magazine found at, http://www.intheknowtraveler.com.
In The Know Traveler is dedicated to passionately exploring international destinations and embracing cultural diversity. The site publishes original stories, interviews from notable cultural leaders across the globe, travel tips, tour information, and press releases. But really, In The Know Traveler is all about going beyond the security gates of a luxury resort or hostel and outside of the confines of the typical vacation and typical travel web site. It is about active travel, getting out and exploring someplace unfamiliar and unique. “’In The Know Travelers always sample curious food, small towns, interesting customs and festivals. We have learned that travel can change your life,” said the site’s co-Owner, Jesse Siglow.
In The Know Traveler differs from most travel web sites as visitors can choose from information standout travel writers, industry press releases, regional and national tourist boards and a variety of other news sources making In The Know Traveler one of the best venues in providing the widest range of knowledgeable voices in travel.
“We found a hole online that recognized the many facets of the travel experience. We wanted to bridge the gap between luxury travel and cultural exchange by providing travel information and advice presented by writers and editors who have been there,” said Editor and co-Owner, Devin Galaudet. “We present positive stories that highlight the importance of travel and why we love it. We wanted to bring traveling back to life.”
The new travel portal offers more than quality writing and information. Site visitors can comment on any feature article and include their voice to help other travelers.
In The Know Traveler also connects visitors to the latest in discount travel, vacation planning and hotel reservations. Other features at In The Know Traveler include in-depth coverage of select countries. They are currently featuring Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, the Bahamas, and Spain with additional activity sections specializing in “travel tips” “food and wine” and “golf” – covering both tea and tee times. Technological highlights include collapsible viewing areas allowing for surfers to customize In The Know Traveler to their own needs.
In the near future, Podcasts!
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Take a behind the scenes look at how the Crave Sydney International Food Festival food flags were created. Building on the success of the 2009 food flag creative, which saw 14 countries flags constructed using national dishes, the Food Festival have commissioned another 10 flags. Watch how the creative team at Whybins assemble the flags using national cuisine for the United Kingdom, UAE and Sri Lanka. Visit www.cravesydneyfoodfestival.com.au for further information.
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Posted in Travel Festivals | Behind, Countries Flags, Crave, Creative Team, Festival, Festival Food, Flags, Food, International, International Flags, International Food Festival, National Cuisine, National Dishes, scenes, shoot, Sri Lanka, Success, Sydney, Sydney Festival, Sydney International, Uae, United KingdomLopburi Monkey Festival
In the town of Lopburi, Thailand, the native primates get special treatment yearround, but especially during the annual Lopburi Monkey Festival
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Posted in Travel Festivals | Festival, Lopburi, Lopburi Thailand, Monkey, Monkey 4, Monkey Video, PrimatesV Festival 2010
Essex Police has launched a festival section on its website to give advice to festival goers attending V and other festivals throughout the country. Essex Police want to make sure festival goers have a safe and enjoyable festival. The section includes festival safety tips, traffic and travel advice and information about how to avoid buying fake tickets. Here Chief Supt Jed Stopher talks about policing V festival. www.essex.police.uk
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Posted in Travel Festivals | 2010, Country Essex, Enjoyable Festival, Essex Police, Festival, Festival Goers, festivals, Jed, Police Uk, Safety Tips, Supt, Traffic, Travel Advice, V FestivalThis Summer?s Hottest Music Festival Survival Tips
This Summer’s Hottest Music Festival Survival Tips
(PRWeb UK) June 11, 2010
For most of us, summer music festivals represent a few heady days of freedom and hedonism amongst the workaday grind of the summer.
However, as inexperienced attendees to the ever-growing roster of British music festivals learn every year, there is a definite learning curve to festival-going.
For this reason Know Your Money (http://www.knowyourmoney.co.uk), a leading independent financial website, launched a competition in May asking users for their best festival tips and advice.
The results, announced Thursday 10th June, arrive just in time for the festival season. The 10 winning tips (http://www.knowyourmoney.co.uk/music-festival-tips-competition-results/), selected by the Know Your Money team from hundreds of entries, cover the whole spectrum of the festival experience, offering advice on essential items, practical tips and money saving ideas.
Written by festival goers, for festival goers these entertaining and informative tips are all gleaned from personal experience and provide essential knowledge for anyone heading off to Glastonbury, V, T in the Park or any of the other burgeoning summer music festivals.
With helpful advice for both the festival virgin and the seasoned veteran, the 10 tips include:
The Most Pit Triangulation Method – a handy tactic for finding your way back through a crowd to your friends.
The Third Night Rule – etiquette concerning romance and hygiene during the latter stages of a festival.
Festival Frugality – sound guidelines on travelling light, as long as your friends are well-equipped.
The 10 Best Music Festival Survival Tips can be found at Know Your Money’s Music Festival Competition Results page: http://www.knowyourmoney.co.uk/music-festival-tips-competition-results/
The Festival Tips Competition was originally announced on Know Your Money’s Facebook Fan Page, register as a fan for information on future competitions: http://www.facebook.com/pages/KnowYourMoney/104454869587773?ref=ts
Know Your Money is a leading independent financial website that provides the latest money saving deals, financial product comparisons and financial consumer news, articles and guides. For more information on this press release or any other matter please contact us at networks (at) knowyourmoney (dot) co.uk
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Dragoman Overland Offers Thrilling Overland Adventure Travel Package to Lake of Stars Music Festival in Africa
(PRWEB) May 26, 2007
Dragoman Overland’s Africa music festival packages are overland travel adventures like no other. The first leaves Johannesburg on 26th September and finishes in Lilongwe on 12th October – it’s a 21 day overland adventure travel package not to be missed by music lovers. The second is an overland travel trip through West Africa taking in drumming workshops, a canoe ride and culminating in the extraordinary Festival on the Niger. These Africa music festivals on wheels are a real adventure, with two overland trucks rolling into the music festival sites – one containing the bands and film crew, and the other the music loving festival goers.
The company’s director Charlie Hopkinson believes these are Africa music festival highlights not to be missed: “The West Africa music festival scene is quite widely known outside of the continent, but the Festival on the Niger remains quite an undiscovered gem. Likewise, Southern Africa music festivals like the Lake of Stars are virtually unheard of outside of the continent” he said. “Hopefully these packages, along with the thrill of overland adventure travel, will allow our customers to understand just why we hold them in such high regard.”
Combining Western artists with acts from all over east and Southern Africa, the fourth Lake of Stars music festival takes place from 5th-7th October. This 3-day charity Africa music festival has already featured class acts such as Felix B (Basement Jaxx) and Groove Armada’s Andy Cato, plus many others. This year’s exciting music festival line-up includes Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio One / Worldwide), Annie Mac (BBC Radio One), Rob Da Bank (BBC Radio 1/Bestival), along with Joe Driscoll, Stuart Patterson and various local Malawian, South African and Mozambiquean acts.
But it wouldn’t be Dragoman Overland if it was all about the music of Africa – touring the continent and getting there is half the fun, and with stops in Mozambique and Zambia there’s time to take in beaches, nightclubs, bars and wildlife along the way! A 3000km road trip up the Indian Ocean to Malawi awaits the music lovers who take this adventure travel package. Traveling with the bands for much of the journey, Dragoman Overland will stop en route at small settlements and large cities, showing the real Africa that the tourists miss out on.
When the music stops, the African adventure travel is not over, as we travel to Zambia and the South Luangwa National Park for three days of game viewing – a great opportunity to get really close to the animals usually only seen from in front of a television screen. With four African countries covered, plus a fantastic Africa music festival and cultural events en route, this really is the most exciting way to travel to any music festival. Alternatively, just lug your tent and Wellington boots up the M4 to Glastonbury.
The Lake of Stars music festival package costs just £1,000 per person, including all overland adventure travel costs, hotel and camp accommodation, all camp meals, ticket to Lake of Stars Music Festival, entry fees and game drives in South Luangwa National Park; visit to Kawasa Community project and the expertise of Dragoman Overland’s crew. Flights are not included but are available through Dragoman Overland from ~£600.
For more information about these and Dragoman Overland’s other festival overland adventure travel packages, visit: http://www.dragoman.com/destinations/festivals.php
About Dragoman Overland
Dragoman Overland (http://www.dragoman.com) has over forty years experience running adventure travel and overland trips across the continents of Africa, Asia, North America, Central America and South America. They run overland adventure travel and overland tourism with absolute expertise and professionalism. Five years ago, Dragoman and Encounter Overland merged into today’s Dragoman Overland.
Dragoman Overland has a combined fleet of over 35 Dragoman Overland and Encounter overland trucks around the world. They have pioneered more routes then any other adventure travel operator with an administration, training and maintenance base in Suffolk, England. Their family adventure travel packages are unique because of their overland truck based transport. The adventure travel and overland tourism company is renowned for their trips and commitment to responsible tourism, benefiting the local people of the countries they visit.
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Free Service Helps People Find And Promote Festivals In Ireland
(PRWEB) December 7, 2004
Cork, Ireland is a country rich in festivals. From year long celebrations like Cork, Capitol of Culture to one-day fiestas and from traditional St. Patricks Day Parades to modern art, dance and film there is always a festival nearby. With such a rich collection of events it has always been difficult for the visitor to know what’s happening near them. Irish Festivals is a new service designed specifically to help them get the most from their vacation by finding the festivals in the area they’re visiting.
Helping Tourists Get The Most From Their Vacation:
True enjoyment of any vacation is obtained by exploring everything an area has to offer. This can include the landscape, history and cultural activities. But it is only by knowing the full range of attractions available that a visitor can choose what it is they want to see. Irish Festivals makes it easy for the visitor to browse Irelands Festivals. Once they have found a festival that looks interesting they can then learn more details about it. This information can include dates, locations and descriptions of every event during the festival.
For those people who like to travel independently, the Irish Festivals web site allows them to book accommodation in Hotels, Guesthouses, Hostels and Cottages near their chosen festival. In addition they can hire a car to give them the maximum freedom to see the locality on their own terms.
For that pre or post event drink it is essential to know the best pubs and bars in Ireland. Thanks to RatePubs.com this information is readily available on Irish Festivals.
Listing all festivals in Ireland, from the small independent community event to the large professional extravaganza, Irish Festivals provides the festival organiser with a free channel to promote their festival to tourists and locals alike.
Irish Festivals is now ready for the new tourist season with listings of festivals in 2005 on its web site at http://www.irishfestivals.info.
About Irish Festivals:
Irish Festivals is a service of Minotaur Software. Minotaur Software is an Irish company which has designed and maintains many tourism web sites such as A Guest Of Europe, A Guest Of Ireland, A Guest Of Scotland, Pub Guide Cork, and Pub Guide Dublin.
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Solo Zydeco Festival Gets a New Texas Host City and an All-Star, Three-Day Lineup
Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 16, 2008
Formerly the Crosby (Texas) Zydeco Festival, the Solo Zydeco Festival has moved to Humble, Texas in 2008 due to its growing attendee numbers which are now in excess of 10,000. Produced by Solo Zydeco Productions, the Solo Zydeco Festival will take place from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., on Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9, at the Humble Civic Center Arena, 8233 Will Clayton Parkway, Humble, Texas, 77338.
“The City of Humble is proud to welcome the Solo Zydeco Festival to the Humble Civic Center Arena,” said Mike Byers, president of the Humble Area Chamber of Commerce. “The Festival has a great reputation for being a fun, family friendly event that draws not only the top zydeco talent, but also thousands from across the Gulf Coast region and beyond. We believe the event will be a significant economic benefit to our City.”
“The decision to move the Festival to Humble has attracted coast to coast attention,” said Solo Zydeco Productions CEO Troy Barrett. “We are assisting guests with travel accommodations from as far away as New York and California.”
Traditionally, a one-day event, the Solo Zydeco Festival is bursting at the seams with a three-day, all-star lineup featuring the best and hottest zydeco bands from Texas and Louisiana.
Friday, March 7 – Blue Ocean Club, 9541 Mesa Road, Houston, TX 77078
Kick-off dance featuring Chris Ardoin and NuStep
Saturday, March 8 – Humble Civic Center Arena
Chris Ardoin and NuStep
Brian Jack and the Zydeco Gamblers
Jeremy and the Zydeco Hot Boyz
T-Broussard and the Zydeco Steppers
Marcus Ardoin and the Zydeco Legendz
Same Ole 2 Step
Sunday, March 9 – Humble Civic Center Arena
Leroy Thomas and the Zydeco Road Runners
Step Rideau and the Zydeco Outlaws
Jeffrey Broussard and the Creole Cowboys
2008 Grammy Award nominee Geno Delafose and French Rockin’ Boogie
The Festival also features an array of vendor-provided food and beverages, professional services and products, and arts and crafts, as well as attractions for the children, two-step and accordion contests and giveaways.
A portion of the Festival proceeds will benefit the Black Professional Cowboys & Cowgirls Association, Inc. (BPCCA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Solo Zydeco Productions will help BPCCA double its impact in the lives of young men and women this year by matching each BPCCA scholarship dollar-for-dollar.
Barrett has been producing music festivals for more than 10 years. For Solo Zydeco Productions, promoting family music events is a passion and forte. The company’s mission is to provide family oriented, culturally diverse music festivals and youth educational opportunities through college scholarships.
Zydeco has been steadily growing in national and international popularity over the past 15 years. Dating back to the 1800s, zydeco has its roots in African and Caribbean music and the Creole culture. Creoles represent the mixed offspring of Europeans, American Indians and Africans. Zydeco also is influenced by blues, jazz, rock and R&B music.
The two leading instruments in zydeco are the accordion and rubboard, often worn on the chest. The rubboard was invented in the 1940s by Willie Landry and accordion player Clifton Chenier (the “King of Zydeco”), and has become zydeco’s signature rhythmic sound.
Zydeco culture is about family, music, fun and networking with enthusiasts and persons new to zydeco. It unites people of all backgrounds.
Available at the gate, tickets are $ 15 for adults ($ 25 for two days) and $ 5 for kids ages 6 to 12. Kids 5 and under are free. Group tickets, sponsorships and vendor booths are available. Special hotel rates also are available.
For more information regarding the Solo Zydeco Festival visit http://www.solozp.com. To reserve a vendor booth or become a sponsor, please contact event publicist Margo Williams Handy, MWH Public Relations, at 281.213.9554.
About Solo Zydeco Productions: Solo Zydeco Productions has been producing cultural music festivals since 1997 beginning with the Liberty County Zydeco and Crawfish Festival in Liberty, TX. In 1998, Solo Zydeco Productions moved to Humble, TX and started the Zydecopalooza music festival. Zydecopalooza ran for three years along with the Clifton Chenier Hall of Fame Zydeco music awards festival. Since then, Solo Zydeco Productions has grown and expanded its music festival experience producing three major festivals in the Texas region: the Solo Zydeco Festival formerly the Crosby Zydeco Festival, The Soul and Blues Festival, which also is moving to Humble in 2008, and the Festival de la Cosecha, held in Baytown, Texas. Solo Zydeco Productions produces family cultural events each year and it is excited about moving the Solo Zydeco Festival and the Soul and Blues Festival to the beautiful Humble Civic Center Arena. Log onto http://www.solozp.com or myspace.com/crosbyzydecofestival, for more information.
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SeniorSafeTravel.com Updates Site
Battle Creek, MI (PRWEB) July 1, 2009
SeniorSafeTravel.com, a blog that educates seniors on travel safety, has added new content ranging from information on passport regulations to Michigan festivals to visit in July.
SeniorSafeTravel.com’s blog updates regularly, focusing on topics like the Michigan National Cherry Festival, traveling safely in a car, and senior cruises. The article entitled “Michigan National Cherry Festival – July 5th to July 11th” describes the dining and festivities that take have taken place at this festival annually since 1910. The festivities that seniors might be interested in include the Bay Side Music Stage and the Festival of Races.
Besides Michigan centered articles, SeniorSafeTravel.com also posts blogs and pages specifically about senior travel, like the page “Senior Cruises.” Senior Cruises explains why cruises designed for seniors can enrich their lives through education and entertainment. Cruises marketed towards seniors also serve various meals that cater to specific diets, and generally have licensed doctors on board.
“Safe Travel by Car” is an additional new blog post that provides tips on traveling safely while driving a car. Highlighted are general safety tips like wearing a seat belt, as well as ensuring that the vehicle being used for travel has recently been serviced and is in good shape. SeniorSafeTravel.com even recommends driving the speed limit while traveling to conserve gas and, thus, save money.
About SeniorSafeTravel.com:
SeniorSafeTravel.com began as a blog in September of 2008, and has since expanded to include many more posts about senior traveling.
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Visit the old South, Norfolk,Virginia’s festivals and great museums.
Posted in Travel Festivals | Museums, Norfolk, Norfolk Virginia, South Norfolk, travel, Travel Virginia, Virginia, Virginia FestivalsBecoming a Festival Vendor
If you agree that nothing could be better than being outside, making new friends, and making some money as your own boss then you are ready to become a festival vendor. Becoming a festival vendor can be easy or difficult; it really depends on the festival you want to sell your wares at. Below are some useful tips on how to get your foot in the festival door. There are many different ways to start out as a festival vendor. If you can’t get in the first time around, then check out some of these additional hints to help you figure out a way.
Join Fairs And Festival Events
If you’ve been to a few festivals, flea markets, or craft show and want in on the action then you’ll have to get busy – early. That’s right, most of the festival vendors you see at your local festivals have signed up for their spot up to a year in advance. Some festivals are more competitive than others. If you have some prior experience being a festival vendor, but you’d like to join a well-known or traveling festival than you know how hard it can be to get a coveted space to sell your wares.
Need to Pay Anything to become Festival Vendor?
The first thing to do no matter what festival you want to be a festival vendor at is to find out who is in charge. Try to speak directly with them about signing up. If you are lucky you will just need to pay up front to reserve your spot and then show up on the first day of the festival. Sometimes you won’t have to sign up until the day of the festival, but most will require you to put down a deposit ahead of time. This means that even if you are signing up for a hot festival a year in advance you still might need to lay down a hefty deposit now. This also means that if you can’t make it at the last minute it you will probably lose your entire deposit. Unfortunately, this is just how things go in the festival circuit and if you want to become a festival vendor you will have to shell out some cash before you’ve made a penny.
Things to know in Fairs and Festival Events
If you have chosen to become a festival vendor at a more competitive show and there are no available spots left, then you can try a few things. You can always ask to share a space with an established vendor. This is an especially good move for a festival vendor that has a small set up or someone just starting out. If the booth fees are high, another festival vendor might be happy to let you set up inside their booth. Ask whoever is in charge or approach a friendly festival vendor yourself. You can also see if there are any cancellations that day or the day before. This can be a real pain since you have no guarantee, but things happen and this could get you in. Negotiating with another festival vendor to hold their spot for them if they need to be away for a day or two is another way to get in on a temporary basis. If you want to be a festival vendor, then you are surely a creative type, so use those skills and figure out a way to get in there.
How to perform well in Festival Events?
The more experience you have as a festival vendor, the easier it becomes to get a space or a better one. Like almost anything in life, who you know matters. Being connected with the organizers and other festival vendors can help you out a lot when it comes to getting a prime space at a festival. This does not mean you need to try to get the management’s attention every chance you can. In fact what it means, is try to be a festival vendor who is easy to get along with and pays attention to the people running the show. It may sounds simple, but you will see many festival vendors put up quite a fuss when it comes to their space or a variety of things. Be the kind of festival vendor that people want at their festival. People will take note of this and this it will help ensure you a place at the festival or make sure that the your favorite space is vacant when you arrive.