To make the festival safer, provide more booth space, and give everybody more elbow room, more streets need to close this year. Montford Avenue will close to vehicle traffic from Cullowhee all the way down to West Waneta. East Waneta and Soco Streets will also be closed. These streets will close at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 22, and reopen by 8:00 that evening.  Click here to see a map of the festival street closings.

We ask that your remove any vehicles parked on the street no later than 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 22, to give us time to set up spaces for the food vendors and artists and the stage for the musicians.

No driveways will be blocked in the event of an emergency. All streets will reopen by 8:00 p.m.

by Mitch Russell, Montford.org

Here’s our 2010 Hall of Fame—the generous businesses and individual who are making the Montford Music and Arts Festival possible this year.

Preservers:

• Montford Neighborhood Association, Greenlife Grocery, 98.1 The River

Friends:

• Chinese Acupuncture Clinic
• Nine Mile Restaurant
• PLI Plasticard-Locktech International
• Webb Insurance
• The Health Adventure
• Bionic Man Painting
• Hotel Indigo
• Brian May
• Balloon Illusions

In Kind:

• City of Asheville Parks and Recreation, Asheville Arts Council, Montford Park Players, Blue Ridge Parkway 75th Anniversary

Now We Need YOUR Help

Our festival is in its seventh year, and as with almost everything tied to the economy, we’re struggling. Please consider making a last-minute donation to support the Montford Music and Arts Festival.

As you may have noticed in years past, we’ve been thankful for several individual donors who live in Montford. Please join neighbor Brian May in supporting this year’s festival. Whatever you can give will definitely be appreciated, and you can say you helped make the festival what it was with your monetary contribution. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

You can pay[on this site] via PayPal (right column, fourth box down) or mail a check directly to MNA Treasurer Wanda Newman, 28 Soco Street, Asheville, NC 28801. We’ll be happy to recognize you in the June-July newsletter as helping make MontfordFest happen, so please let us hear from you.

Just announced, the Festival Committee has extended the vendor and artist application deadline to April 30th.  You can get the forms and contact info by visiting the forms page.

Want to design a t-shirt for the festival?   We have a contest for that.   Just make sure you use the Montford Acorn (download file on contest page), fill out the entry form, and send in your file.  You can read the full details and download entry and acorn file on the contest details page.   Don’t forget, entries are due by April 12th, 2010!

Interested in taking a cruise that benefits the festival?  Click here for more information on this great offer!

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