3rd Annual “Highland - Walker Spring Fest”
Presents “The Beer Run”
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Starting @ 12 after opening ceremonies.
2007 Highland - Walker Spring Fest is closing Walker Street for the 3rd year. The Festival will have 8 Live Bands on our Main Stage. The Free, Open to the Public event starts @ noon and goes till 11 pm at night! University District local businesses invite you to show your True Blue, Tiger Spirit, come enjoy lunch and dinner in our district restaurants and, browse our local shops. Special events will be scheduled through out the day so, bring your family and friends!
The 1st Annual Beer Run is a new intramural contest! B, double E, double R, You, In, Beer Run!
Servers from area Restaurants - Bars will enter 4 person teams that will compete for the least spillage and fastest time. The servers will open, poor and carry the total of 4 pints of beers on a tray from point A to B. The coarse will be in front of the main stage on “Walker Street”. Teams will compete side by side on a 100 feet run, with one obstacle at the 50 feet mark. Trophies, Cash and Bragging Rights will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
"King" and "Queen" of beers contest. Men will try to pop as many beer tops as they can in 30 seconds. The winner will be dubbed “King” on our main stage, receive a card for VIP status in our entire Highland – Walker Bar Association, receive all the Cash from the entry fees.
The “Queen of Beer Run” will be a Constume & Beer Themed Pageant. Lady contestants will be asked random questions about Beer! Costume and crowd response from the answers will steer the Judges to pick the winner! The winner will be dubbed “Queen” on our main stage, receive a card for VIP status, in our entire Highland – Walker Bar Association, receive all the Cash from the entry fees.
Contact info below, $60 event fee per team.
$20 event fee for Queen of Beer & $20 event fee for King of Beer!
Booth spaces are available for area businesses and, food / drink vending opportunities are open, too. Please contact Adam @ Double Duece, Rick Johns @ RP Tracks or Todd Adams @ Newbys for more information. Festival Rules: All ages are welcome, ID’s are required to drink and No Outside Coolers.
This is for the local talent of all mediums and the support and development of the local community!
Music
WE WILL HAVE IT-LOTS AND LIVE!!!!
Venues will host music as well as a main stage outside the YMCA!! Main Stage Bands!!
Inner 61
Tennessee Bolt Smokers
Bowling for Soup
Mo's will have jazz and other local bands playing in doors from 12-4pm. Giant Bear to play outdoors when main stage msuic is over!
Movies
WE WILL HAVE LIVE FROM MEMPHIS on hand to showcase local music videos as well as short films by local film makers at Newby's and RP Billiards.
Television
Cynthia from the YMCA typed: "I was planning on offering Child care at the YMCA that day for festival participants, at no cost, with a signed waiver. From 12 noon to 4:30 pm. We will offer it for two hours at a time, with a limited number of spaces, so first come first serve. The parent must be on festival premises, with a cell phone in case of emergency. The kids can swim, play basketball, watch movies and do art projects.
For families, we will be showing youth videos in the board room, chips and drink available for purchase, movie viewing free. We have a large supply of G rated tapes for kids. We also can offer a rubber duck race for kids as well."
Nintendo Wii games at Mo's - all day, 15 minutes free with $1 min. in store purchase - sign up for time slot
Books
READ ANOTHER DAY!
Heroes
All those that support the local community and come together to make things happen in our community!
For Immediate Release. For more information, contact:
Kim Brukardt, PR Consultant 682.3324 or 832.4527 kimbrukardt@msn.com.
Plug-In to the Very Cool Highland-Walker Spring Fest April 21
MEMPHIS, TENN. (April 2, 2007)…Get plugged-in to all things cool during the Highland-Walker Spring Fest Saturday, April 21 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Presented by The University District Business Alliance (UDBA), the third annual festival will bring on food, fun, fitness, live music, movies and educational exhibits. The event will spill over onto Highland and Walker Streets near the University of Memphis. Admission is free. For more information, call 323-4505 or check highlandwalkerfest.com
The festival is meant to bring together visionaries, creative/artsy folks and movers and shakers including University District businesses, local artists, professors and students and the community-at-large. “The UDBA seeks to reintroduce this area -- in the heart of Memphis -- as a smart district, an educational corridor and entertainment center where local businesses have already invested more than $111 million dollars in redevelopment efforts,” said Festival Co-Chair Cynthia Magallon Puljic of the Mason YMCA.
The festival will communicate fun, but also will include information on what is developing in this neighborhood. For example, a walking mall is in the works along with plans for a six-story, upscale apartment complex. The Highland Area Renewal Community (HARC) is the newly established connector for university area businesses that also includes the University of Memphis, 13 churches and neighborhood associations seeking positive change and value-added benefits for the city and surrounding areas. Proceeds from the festival will be used, in part, to award neighborhood redevelopment grants in support of community revitalization projects, according to Festival Co-Chair Rick Johns of RP Tracks and Billiards.
Event sponsors are A.S. Barbaro, Highland Area Renewal Community (HARC), the Peddler Bike Shop, Mo’s Music and Art Café, Newby’s Restaurant, RP Tracks and Billiards, Garibaldi’s, Tiger Book Store, Double Deuce, Memphis Sound and Mason YMCA. Films are courtesy of Live From Memphis. Official radio sponsor is Q107.5 WHBQ-FM.
Spring Fest Exhibitors include: Highland Area Renewal Community (HARC), St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, University District, Inc., University Neighborhood Development Corp., University of Memphis, St. Anne’s Church, Muslim Society of Memphis, Normal Station Neighborhood Association, Catholic Campus Ministry, Crazy Crawfish, St. Luke’s Methodist Church and Live From Memphis.
Event Schedule:
7 a.m. to 8 a.m.:
Peddler Bike Shop Open House.
8 a.m. to 10 a.m.:
Morning Bike Ride. Peddler Bike Shop 575 S. Highland.
7:30 a.m. to close:
Mo’s coffee, donuts, Greek cuisine, super dogs, gator and cheese nachos, big tea cup, Memphis music CDs. Also Wii Nintendo games(15 minutes free w/minimum $1 purchase)
[Extra seating available at Brother Juniper’s next door from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m.] Mo’s Music/Art Café 3521 Walker. Mo's Myspace....Mo's site
Stick around for Giant Bear to play outside after the main stage music is over!
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.:
Media Sponsor Q107.5 playing hit radio tunes along Walker.
11 a.m. to close:
Blue Coast Burrito 3546 Walker & Domino’s Pizza 550 S. Highland will have food and drink specials
11:45 a.m.-noon:
Festival Opening Ceremony. Main Stage-Walker. Welcome and Recognition of Sponsors, Remarks by Hal Mabray, UDBA president.
12 noon to 4 p.m.:
Newby’s and RP Tracks/Billiards present: Beer Run with area restaurants participating for prizes. Along Walker.
12 noon to 4:30 p.m.:
Mason YMCA Videos for Kids Mason & YMCA Child Care available
3548 Walker.
12 noon to 4:30 p.m.:
Tiger Bookstore Tattoos & Balloons, Face Painting for Kids. Tiger Bookstore 3533 Walker.
12 noon to 7 p.m.:
Double Deuce Parking Lot Serving barbecue sandwiches, seafood gumbo. Corner Walker/Brister.
8 p.m. HEADLINER: Bowling for Soup. International Touring Pop Punk Band Grammy nominated for “Girl All the Bad Boys Want.” Check myspace.com/bowlingforsoup or bowlingforsoup.com
Highland-Walker Spring Fest Headliner
* Bowling for Soup * 8 p.m.* Main Stage *
From Wikopedia online:
Bowling for Soup, the Grammy nominated pop punk band based in Denton, Texas is best known for singles “Girl All the Bad Guys Want,” which garnered a 2003 Grammy Award nomination, and “1985” written by SR-71. Originally formed 13 years ago in Wichita Falls, Texas, the band has sold more than a million copies of their studio albums including a cover album. Labels include Sony BMG, Jive, FFROE and Queso. Current members are Jaret Reddick (vocals/guitar), Erik Chandler (bass/vocals), Chris Burney (guitar/vocals) and Gary Wiseman (drums).
The band's name is derived from comedian Steve Martin’s 1978 takeoff routine on Bowling for Dollars from his comedy album, Wild and Crazy Guy. The group’s first studio album, Rock on Honorable Ones in 1998 (FFROE label) sold more than 10,000 copies prompting Jive Records to sign the band. Let’s Do It for Johnny!, Bowling for Soup’s major label debut, was released on Jive in 2000 with original material and a cover of Bryan Adams’ “Summer of ’69.”
In 2002, the band recorded their second major label album, Drunk Enough to Dance. The lead single from the album, “Girl All the Bad Guys Want” became a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom and a Top 100 hit in the U.S. The next year, the single was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Group or Duo. That success pushed Drunk Enough to Dance to No. 2 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers album chart. The next song, “Emily,” wasn’t as successful followed by “Punk Rock 101” which fared better. It was the 2004 A Hangover You Don’t Deserve album that became the band’s only Top 40 album. Sales were driven primarily by the radio airplay given single cover song, “1985,” which became the group’s biggest hit in the U.S., reaching No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. Mitch Allan, lead singer for SR-71, contributed background vocals.
A second single, “Almost,” from A Hangover You Don’t Deserve came in at No. 100 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 46 on the US Top 100 and No. 23 on US Pop 100.
Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies, a compilation album of cover songs and contributrions to movie soundtracks, was released in 2005. Later that year, Jaret Reddick and Chris Burney made apperances on VH1’s I Love the ‘90s: Part Deux.
Album The Great Burrito Extortion Case was released in November 2006 and its single, “High School Never Ends,” was released to iTunes in September 2006. The single debuted in the UK in December 2006. The band then embarked on a U.S. tour to promote the album followed by a UK “Get Happy Tour” in early February 2007. Another tour of the UK is planned in October 2007, billed as Get Happy Tour 2, as well as a performance during London’s Download Festival in June.
Discography
· 1994: Bowling for Soup
· 1996: Cell Mates
· 1998: Rock On Honorable Ones!!!
· 1999: Tell Me When to Whoa! (EP)
· 2000: Let's Do It for Johnny! – UK #186
· 2002: Drunk Enough to Dance – US #129, UK #14
· 2004: A Hangover You Don't Deserve – US #37, UK #64 – RIAA: Gold
· 2005: Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies
· 2006: The Great Burrito Extortion Case – US #88 UK #43
Brought to you by: Sponsors:
Ymca
Newby's
Mo's
Live From Memphis
RP Trax, Vault, Billiards
UDBA
Peddler Bike Shop
Tiger Book Store
Garibaldi's
HARC
Poag & McEwen
A.S.B. Distribution
Double Duece
Miller Light
Smirnoff Wet Ice
Memphis Sound
Performance Toyota/Scion
Duplicate info: Mo's will open at 7:30am and have specials on Greek Food, coffee, donuts, Seafood Gumbo, Super Dogs, Gator & Cheese Nachos, Good Tea in a 32 oz. souvinir cup. They will also be hosting live music outside from 12-4pm and Nintendo Wii games in the back room. You get 15 minutes with a $1 purchase. Sign up as you come in to play!
The YMCA will have daycare for children from 12-4:30pm-for more info look under television on left side of screen!
Who I'd like to meet: YOU! WE WANT TO SEE YOU AT THE FEST!!
Are you a local talent with merchandise to sell? Rent a booth for only $50 at the fest! Contact Cynthia at the Mason YMCA for booth registration @ 901-458-9622! Take advantage of this opprotunity to promote yourself and your work!
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Highland-Walker Spring Fest 4/21's Friend Space (Top 23)
Of wives...who would rather have their husbands to hold
Of children...who would rather have their dad or mom at home.
Of mothers...who have buried their sons/daughters
Of fathers...whose feet their children followed
Of the men and women fighting a nightmare of their own -
one they will carry with them until the same song plays,
the same flag drapes and the same tears fall
just as they watched in pain their friends and comrades
committing what they will come to call "wrongs"
by which they lived..by which they survived...
nightmares they will carry with them throughout their lives.
It doesn't go away when the guns are laid down..
It doesn't go away when they return home...
It doesn't go away for them - why should it for you?
God Bless Our Veterans of Wars Past & Present
Remember those who have lost loved ones as much as you remember the ones who were lost and don't forget to pray for those who are out there everyday fighting for your freedom...
Well Folks It's Hump Day Again - Woo Hoo!! But this Hump Day I'm gonna have to explain myself a bit here cus my English friends keep wondering what holiday we are celebrating so this one's for you guys across the seas!
