Central Oregon Blues Society
central oregon blues festival
I received messages on Myspace recently from Tom White and Ryan Fundeburg regarding a Central Oregon Blues and Crawfish Festival they are planning for Friday, July 4th and Saturday, July 5th 2008.
I spoke to Ryan Funderburg, who is doing the booking of local musicians, by phone Friday. This is the info I got from him in response to my questions.
The Festival will feature Cajun cooking (that's the crawfish part) and they are working on getting a chef from Louisiana, as well as another vendor to provide BBQ food, most likely tri-tip.
There will be beer vendors, a microbrew and possibly another for light beers. There will be overnight camping available for festival attendees.
The Festival is being sponsored by Clear 101 radio station and Bend Broadband, both of which will have booths at the Festival.
When I expressed an interest in our blues society having a booth at the festival , he said thought it would be best to talk about that with the promoter, Tom White.
The headliners for the concert will be John Lee Hooker, Jr. and Kenny Neal. Ryan is in the process of booking the remainder of the Festival acts. They need six blues bands to fill three time slots each afternoon of the Festival. The first would be approx. 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, the last approx. 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
At this point, as this is the first year just getting this off the ground, they are not able to pay compensation for these sets.
However, each night after the Festival there will be after-parties at Bronco Billy's. The bands playing these events will have to provide their own P.A. system, and would be provided with a free dinner, and couple of beer vouchers for each band member who wanted them. Also the band would keep all door fees and provide their own door person to collect them.
The Festival event will be advertised on Clear 101 radio station and on Bend Broadband, as well as other forms of advertising.
Contact info: Ryan Funderburg - (541) 390-3659 email: red1s@msn.com
Tom White - (541) 420-7975
Myspace:Central Oregon Blues Festival
I spoke to Ryan Funderburg, who is doing the booking of local musicians, by phone Friday. This is the info I got from him in response to my questions.
The Festival will feature Cajun cooking (that's the crawfish part) and they are working on getting a chef from Louisiana, as well as another vendor to provide BBQ food, most likely tri-tip.
There will be beer vendors, a microbrew and possibly another for light beers. There will be overnight camping available for festival attendees.
The Festival is being sponsored by Clear 101 radio station and Bend Broadband, both of which will have booths at the Festival.
When I expressed an interest in our blues society having a booth at the festival , he said thought it would be best to talk about that with the promoter, Tom White.
The headliners for the concert will be John Lee Hooker, Jr. and Kenny Neal. Ryan is in the process of booking the remainder of the Festival acts. They need six blues bands to fill three time slots each afternoon of the Festival. The first would be approx. 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, the last approx. 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
At this point, as this is the first year just getting this off the ground, they are not able to pay compensation for these sets.
However, each night after the Festival there will be after-parties at Bronco Billy's. The bands playing these events will have to provide their own P.A. system, and would be provided with a free dinner, and couple of beer vouchers for each band member who wanted them. Also the band would keep all door fees and provide their own door person to collect them.
The Festival event will be advertised on Clear 101 radio station and on Bend Broadband, as well as other forms of advertising.
Contact info: Ryan Funderburg - (541) 390-3659 email: red1s@msn.com
Tom White - (541) 420-7975
Myspace:Central Oregon Blues Festival
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Permalink Reply by Gail Matthey on -
This is a great lineup so far, Kenny Neal Sr. or Jr. we have seen both and are hot!!!!!!! This sounds like a great place to get our foot in the door, especially now if this is well recd and grows year to year. Only thing I see is the Waterfront Blues Fest is the same weekend in Portland.
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Permalink Reply by Barbara Ann Storrier on -
Tom sent another message on Myspace a little while ago, saying a booth would be do-able.
He was planning to sell water, and thought perhaps we could do that at the booth. Anyway I gave him Cliff's contact info, and said that Charlie DeMo would be contacting him about the booth. I don't know if it's Jr or Sr, Gail. Didn't think to ask.
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Permalink Reply by Gail Matthey on
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Having a booth for water is wonderful, this is when we may want to purchase a few tshirts and hats with the logo you designed to sell at this booth as well, get someone locally to lend us a booth where we could fly a banner with same logo and Central Oregon Blues Society, anyway things to talk about. I just recd my new Blues Revue magazine and Kenny Neal is on cover and spotlighted, it is on stands. Very interesting article about him just recovering from hepititis C and on a new tour which I guess will now include Sisters. Also, it may be a good thing to ask if we can take the money for the booth and have water donated, then we can make some money and get members with volunteer sign up sheets and sell memberships, which would mean we have to get busy.........lol
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