The News Review:
- ld Port on a roll at festival
- Discover Jazz Festival Boosts Business
- DC pride festival honors gay rights pioneer Kameny
- Memarie Gayle Kicks ff CMA Music Festival Week With 3 Live Shows!
- The Crossing sings final concert of Month of Moderns festival
- Banff festival regains spot atop TV world
- Strawberry festival on Monument circle Thursday
ld Port on a roll at festival
Kennebec Journal
Right here in Portland Maine!” declared Rep. Herb Adams a Portland Democrat and master of ceremonies for the event organized by the West End Neighborhood Association. However although organizers and participants are confident they accomplished the feat during Sunday’s ld Port Festival it will take some time before Guinness gets back to them with the official word. In any case the effort proved to be an effective fundraiser. Michael Whittaker the organizer came up with the idea as a way to provide swimming lessons to needy children. Sales of 4-inch-long pieces of the finished lobster roll — packaged with chips a drink and a coupon for a lobster roll at a sponsor’s restaurant – are expected to fund lessons for about 250 children. Beverly Kocenko of Portland was among the many gloved volunteers wielding squeeze bottles of Miracle Whip and stuffing lobster meat into the super-long roll.
Discover Jazz Festival Boosts Business
WCAX
WNColumnManager) WNColumnManager. It's one of several big events on the calendar that Vermont's tourism industry is counting on to boost the local economy — in spite of the recession. The Discover Jazz Festival dates from 1983 and draws fans from all over the northeast and Quebec. No doubt it brings tourism — and that means spending that would not be happening here without the music. “And it's such a good thing that they do for the city just the economic times we're in you can attract some tourists.
DC pride festival honors gay rights pioneer Kameny
The Associated Press
They said they had information that he was a homosexual. He was promptly fired. In that moment in 1957 more than a decade before the Stonewall riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement one of the cause’s earliest and most effective activists was born. Now 84 Kameny is being honored at events this month during Washington’s annual Capital Pride celebration and artifacts from his half-century of activism are going on display at a D.
Memarie Gayle Kicks ff CMA Music Festival Week With 3 Live Shows!
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The Crossing sings final concert of Month of Moderns festival
Philadelphia Inquirer
But time and again composers were heard distilling complete worlds within the confines of 21 voices and 20 minutes at the closing concert of the Month of Moderns festival by the Crossing. And it wasn’t always pretty. Most typically unaccompanied voices inspire consolidated contained expression though not in various works heard Friday at Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill by Bo Holten John McCabe and in an important world premiere Philadelphia’s Kile Smith. McCabe’s 1986 Scenes in America Deserta uses words only as a platform to dramatize the natural chaos of the nonhuman world ending with the rumbling underlying hum of the planet subtly undulating and constantly evolving.
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Banff festival regains spot atop TV world
Calgary Herald
But more than anything it’s all about closing the deal at the annual Banff World Television Festival. For all the tales of up-close encounters with celebrities and TV heavy hitters in the past–whether it be drinking beer with scar-winning writer Paul Haggis sharing an impromptu dinner with iconic Law and rder producer Dick Wolf or running into John Cleese in the hotel lobby–the annual Banff World Television Festival remains a forum less about stargazing than “turning ideas into business. “In 2008 for instance more than 1400 delegates from 33 countries arrived at the posh Fairmont Banff Springs for the festival. By the end of the four-day event more than $650 mil-lion in deals had been made between producers distributors and broadcasters. “If you go into the delegates lounge at any time of the day or night you’ll be lucky to find a seat because they’ll be hundreds and hundreds of business meetings going constantly from early in the morning until late at night” says Norm Bolen CE of theCanadian Film and Television Production Association and a former chairman of the festival.
Strawberry festival on Monument circle Thursday
Indianapolis Star
For the Christ Church Cathedral Women that’s the recipe for one of the most successful church fundraisers in Indianapolis: the annual Strawberry Festival on Monument Circle. Last year it raked in $80000 that benefited a diverse group of charities. But a key question going into the 44th annual festival Thursday is whether the lingering recession will diminish demand for $6 bowls of strawberry shortcake. Festival chairwoman Karen Farmer who’s been serving up shortcakes on the Circle for 35 years isn’t sure what to expect. Somehow she seems confident that Downtown office workers won’t be able to resist the gravitational pull of the shortcake. “It’s just one of those things that gets momentum when people look out their windows and see people going for dessert” she said. The Cathedral Women have held the line on prices for three consecutive years despite rising costs Farmer said.