PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release – September 4, 2012
Contact: Festival Organizers Gretchen Hildreth and Lesley Greene – Lesley@porchfest.org, Gretchen@porchfest.org
Porchfest Music Festival Returns for a 6th Year
ITHACA NY: On Sunday, September 16th from 1:00-5:00pm, the streets of the Fall Creek & Northside neighborhoods will be filled with music, as many of Ithaca’s finest musicians sing, play and dance on their porches and front stoops. To hear them, grab a map at the information station in Thompson Park (near Gimme Coffee on Cayuga Street) or online at www.porchfest.org, and then walk or bike around the neighborhood to take in the sounds of this free event. This year’s festival is sponsored by Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services and supported by a gift from the GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance.
Porchfest 6 will feature 111 musical acts, the biggest Porchfest yet. Performers include El Rumbon, Gunpoets, Not From Wisconsin, JazzHappensBand, Djug Django, Richie Stearns and the Evil City Trio, Uniit Carruyo, Nate & Kate, The Grady Girls, Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus, Sim Redmond Band, Terry Burns and Ron Kristy, and much, much more. The festival offers musical styles ranging from roots rock to traditional jazz, and from pop to hip hop, with side trips into comedy, capoeira, and storytelling. There will also be chances to join in: Emoretta Yang is professor for the required course “Ukulelese as a Second Language,” your chance to learn to play the uke, and there are sing-alongs to boot. There is surely something for everyone.
Public restrooms will be available for festival-goers at Tabernacle Baptist Church, NorthStar Restaurant, St. Paul’s Methodist Church, and the Quaker Meetinghouse.
When the music is done at 5:00pm, grab a picnic dinner and your instruments and head back to Thompson Park for more fun and music. For more information, go to www.porchfest.org or contact festival organizers Gretchen Hildreth and Lesley Greene at LesleyGretchen@porchfest.org.
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