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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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