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Groovefest, Cedar City, Utah 2007


Every year for the past five years Cedar City, Utah has been home to four days of music and festivities in the Main Street Park titled Groovefest. This free event is one that enjoys crowds as large as 20,000, which were in attendance last year, and this year was looking to rival that number by a few more thousand yet. The line-up included 14 already established groups as well as 14 local up and coming talents. This event is one for all ages and a great way to get out and enjoy the outdoors.

On Thursday night at The Grind, a local coffee shop in historic downtown, the party started with Kate McLeod and the Pancakes from 8:00pm-10:00pm. A small setting in which everyone could enjoy an up- close and personal show to get things started. Friday morning the party continued at Main Street Park. The park was awake with activity from 6:00am with all the food vendors starting their set-up as well as other craft, carnival, and local vendors arriving to do the same. The park was open for anyone to stroll through or find a nice shady place to pitch camp for the day at 8:00am and the first act, Stephanie Smith, started at 11:00am. Each group had 45 minutes of playtime, which then allowed for the local talent to share some of each hour by playing on a side stage while the next group set-up.

There was a variety of music from Bluegrass, to Country, Reggae, to African Drumbeats and everything else in between. The vendors ranged from handmade wooden items to jewelry of every kind of stone, silk sari's and novelties, even items from the Mediterranean. Food vendors brought everything from New Orleans' style Cajun to Navajo fry bread and tacos, to every kind of child's dream in Cotton Candy, Snow Cones, Marshmallow shooters to Texas Twisters.

Another child's dream is every kind of carnival game and ride to keep them bouncing all day long. Inflated bouncers and slides, and even one ride which was hand spun by two large gentlemen until the screams from within to stop were overpowering! When the last band of the night, Albino! finished its 3rd encore, the night move to a local café called Merl B's to move late into the morning. Saturday morning started quite the same as Friday with Steven swift leading off and Euforquestra ending the night, only this time it was with 4 encores and fireworks to boot! Sunday morning was at the Grind where everything wound down in the small setting it had started in. Groovefest ended around 1:00pm Sunday afternoon with everyone having enjoyed a great weekend outdoors with friends and family.

There was an unusual extension this year to the festivities. Euforquestra had van trouble and wound up spending the entire week in town awaiting its repair and unfortunately spending a bit of the proceeds. To help them out and give us all another chance to enjoy their group, Groovacious, the Founders of Goovefest gave them an encore show inside their store midweek to hope to help them in the finances. It was another up-front and personal setting in which to gain another view of each one of the players and learn a bit more about them. All in all, it was another successful year at Groovefest 2007.

For a complete list of all acts both established and local you can visit www.groovefestutah.com There you can also learn a bit about the founders and enjoy links to all the acts for sound files of their music. Hope you enjoy!!

Review by Alisa Hegedus

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