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Clearwater Festival Seeks Vendors and Volunteers

By Anonymous

Poughkeepsie, NY March 19, 2004--Great music, family fun and environmental education will all come together June 19 and 20 at the Clearwater Festival 2004. Held since 1966, Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival is the grand-daddy of river festivals and more than 15,000 visitors are expected at Westchester’s Croton Point Park, a river peninsula park with grassy meadows, and sweeping views of the river.

The Clearwater Festival will have all the elements of celebration people have come to expect, including a diverse blend of contemporary, traditional and American roots music, dance bands and well known storytellers. There will be fine crafts from professional artisans and folk artists, natural foods and dozens of activities throughout the weekend.

Vendors and volunteers are now being welcomed.

A tradition that spans more than three decades, the Clearwater Festival offers opportunities for people to get involved – for an hour, for a day or for a lifetime, in the work of the Clearwater organization, whose mission, vision and activities are connected not only to the purpose of the event, but to its overall operation. In addition to the core mission of saving the Hudson River, Clearwater promotes social justice, alternative energy, sustainable living, and a holistic approach to environmental stewardship.

Volunteer at the Great Hudson River Revival. Help infuse environmental education, principles and practices into the very fiber of the festival operation.

Vendors of wholesome foods and fine crafts that embody the mission are given a unique opportunity to showcase and sell their products to the festival’s tuned-in and actively engaged audience.

Applications for participation are available at the Clearwater office in Poughkeepsie (845-454-7673 x 122 for volunteers, x123 for vendors), or on line at www.clearwaterfestival.org and must be submitted before the end of March.

Entertainment, environment and education uniquely combined

Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams, Toshi Reagon, Patty Larkin and Guy Davis are among the musicians who will join Pete Seeger and friends on six different festival stages for the annual Festival That Saved a River. The Nields, SONiA, and Catie Curtis will perform, as will Sol y Canto, Deni Bonet and Shemekia Copeland. Other performers are still being signed and updated information is available on the festival website at www.clearwaterfestival.org While music has always been the foundation of the festival, it’s not the only attraction.

In addition to musicians and storytellers, some of the Hudson Valley’s most talented artists and hand-crafters will greet visitors to the Point with a juried show and sale. Dozens of participatory activities for both adults and children, and special “festivals within the festival” will entertain and educate. The Green Living Expo will demonstrate some of the most exciting new products and services that people can use today to create and maintaining sustainable life styles. A dance tent will cover Cajun, Contra, Zydeco, Swing and Rock dancers as they strut their stuff and international foods and snacks will tempt visitors from morning to night.

Field activities for people of all ages make the festival more than just a musical event. Exhibits of live Hudson River fish, photography, juggling instructors, a weed walk, and variety of shoreline environmental programs are on tap for the weekend. The sloop Clearwater, a replica of a 19th century Hudson River sloop, will sail three times each day, joined for the first time by the schooner Pioneer from South St. Seaport.

Sailing the river’s waters on a clean-up mission since 1969, Clearwater has given more than 400,000 young people their first up-close look at a threatened ecosystem, creating a Clearwater Generation in the process. Because of this work, Clearwater is being named to the National Register of Historic Places this year.

A non-stop musical performance schedule is just the beginning of the family fun to be found at the Father’s Day weekend event. Non-aggressive and non-violent activities in the Children’s Area do far more than occupy energetic minds and bodies.

Created and staffed by parents, alumni and teachers at the Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, the area is dedicated to creativity, holistic learning, self-reliance and respect for nature, self and others. Whether kids get involved in shirt and face painting, water play or the tree rope bridge, they’ll be transformed by the experience. And when they create butterflies and bird puppets from recycled materials, they’ll be creating wonderful memories at the same time.

A festival isn’t a festival without food and the Clearwater Festival features everything from Chicken teriyaki and crab cake sandwiches to falafel with hummus and funnel cakes and French fries. An international array of treats from black bean and veggie wraps to falafel and tabouli. Ethnic favorites like pierogies and gyro’s take their place with chocolate desserts and double lattes.

Long a “must-do” summer kick-off for outdoor families, music-lovers and environmentalists, the Clearwater Festival offers opportunities for people to get involved – for an hour, for a day or for a lifetime. Volunteers work alongside performers to create the Clearwater experience and vendors have a unique opportunity to show and sell their work to an audience that is tuned in and actively engaged.

More information on the festival, applications for vendors and sign up forms for volunteers are all readily available at www.clearwaterfestival.org. They are also available by calling Festival Director Ron Aja at 845-454-7673

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