Porchfest – Ithaca, NY

Signups have officially begun for this year’s Porchfest. Click on the Musician Sign Up tab to get started.

Hello Wonderful Porchfest friends. Thank you so much for your great event and what you have done for neighborhood and community building let alone music..all through the US!!
We (East Central Community Council) just co-chaired and hosted the first Salt Lake Porchfest to benefit Heart and Soul a local non-profit and are now trying to gather all we learned for next year. THANK YOU so much for this great event. You are making a difference to our community and we are so excited. Once you have more time..we would love to chat live. Have a great Porchfest!! Esther & Gary

Porchfest 2013 will be on Sunday, September 15th. Mark your calendars! We are not yet accepting band information – check back on August 1st.

We have lots of Porchfest tshirts left in the following sizes: Men’s S, M, L, 2XL, Ladies S and M, and medium and large tanks. And they are just $10 each. Want one? Contact us.

Want to print your own copy of the Porchfest poster? You can find it here – 2012 Porchfest Poster

Tomorrow’s Porchfest sign painting party is changing locations. It will be held at 100 Franklin Street – Lesley’s house. It’s still at 10 AM.

Please come! Bring paint and wood if you have it, or just yourselves if you don’t. We’ll provide bagels.

Get Your GreenBack Tompkins has created a page on their website dedicated to Porchfest transportation options. Many festival-goers walk out of their front door and find themselves already at Porchfest, but if that’s not true for you, see how you can get here in the greenest possible way! http://getyourgreenbacktompkins.org/page/getting-there#porchfest

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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