Grand Lake Festivals Announces

2009 Music Festival Series Dates

Grand Lake Festivals, Inc. met recently to continue the work in bringing three great festivals to the Grand Lake area this year.  Director Kathleen Pixley, announced the dates for the 2009 Festival Series. The American Heritage Music Festival takes place June 11, 12, and 13;  the popular Cajun Festival is set

for July 4; and the Jana Jae Fiddle Camp and Music Fest is on Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 2, 3, and 4.

American Heritage Music Festival coordinators, Brad & Shirley Adams, encourage everyone to mark the annual "first full week of June" on the calendar for this very unique and fun-filled musical Festival, this year June 11, 12, and 13.  This festival celebrates our American musical heritage with three stages of stellar entertainers and bands, as well as National Fiddle and Clogging competitions and workshops.  The Grand Lake National Fiddle Contest is nationally certified by NOTFC, Weiser, Idaho and the Grand Lake National Clogging Contest is sanctioned by America’s Clogging Hall of Fame and the National Clogging and Hoe-down Council. Top prize for each contest is $1000. Cloggers and fiddlers from across the United States are getting their contest tunes and dances ready for this exciting weekend of contests and entertainment. (Continued)