FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 18, 2001
Stephen Foster State Park Hosts One Day
Of Three-Day Florida Harvest Music Fest
-- Donations go to United Way’s
September 11th Fund --
TALLAHASSEE—A
seven-hour music festival featuring regional bands, playing
continuously from noon until 7 p.m., will be held at the Stephen
Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White Springs on
Saturday, September 22, 2001.
Saturday’s event is
free and open to the public, however, donations will go to United
Way’s September 11th Fund to
assist with the expenses and needs associated with the tragedies
that occurred in our Nation last Tuesday.
The three-day music fest
is a partnership between the Department of Environmental
Protection’s Division of Recreation and Parks, Gama Productions
of Gainesville and Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak.
Gama Productions will
donate a portion of their proceeds to the New York City
Firefighters, Emergency Medical Service and Police Relief efforts;
Suwannee Music Park is donating a portion of their gate revenue;
and one-third of the $18.00 cost for Sunday’s 22-mile canoe trip
from Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center to Spirit of the Suwannee
Music Park will also be donated.
The festival begins on
Friday at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak with
music, camping and performing arts and continues through Sunday.
On Saturday, from noon to 7 p.m., shuttles will provide attendees
hourly transportation to and from the Stephen Foster Folk Culture
Center State Park in White Springs.
"We are honored to
be a part of the fund-raising efforts for those affected in last
week’s tragedy," said Wendy Spencer, Director of DEP’s
155-unit state park system. "We are grateful to be partnering
with the Suwannee Music Park and Gama Productions for this
important occasion. I hope visitors will take some time to
appreciate life, family and friends, and enjoy the beauty around
them as they visit the park and the beautiful new Nature &
Heritage Tourism Center."
The Center provides
visitors an opportunity to learn about, and make reservations for,
nature-based and heritage travel in the Sunshine State.
Some of the musical acts
that are scheduled to perform over the three-day music fest
include:
Blues Traveler, Medeski
Martin & Wood, Ratdog, Seven Mary Three, G-Love & Special
Sauce, Galactic, Original P Parliament, Funkadelic, Blueground
Undergrass, Steel Pulse, Little Feat, Lemon Juice, Tiffany Lee and
many more.
For more information on
the Florida Music Harvest festival, contact: (352) 336-8360, or go
to: www.musicharvest.com.
For details regarding the canoe trip, contact American Canoe
Adventures at 1-800-624-8081 or Suwannee Canoe Outpost at
1-800-428-4147.
Stephen Foster Folk
Culture Center State Park can be accessed from I-10 (Exit 43) at
U.S. 41, then north to White Springs; or I-75 (Exit 84) at State
Road 136, then east to U.S. 41.
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