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Home Of Northshore Musicians & Artists
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2008 Event Sponsors
Children's Art Stage Sponsor Poster Sponsored By Electricity Work donated by Organizational and Financial Support donated by the Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce Publicity is made possible by a grant from the Tangipahoa Parish Tourism Commission
Restrooms Provided By Pot-O-Gold Printed Materials Provided By Premier Printing & Norman Falk The Northshore Regional Endowment For The Arts Board would like to thank Deborah Anderson and Anderson Small Business Solutions for chairing this year's event! |
Stage & Band Times Stage Locations Band Roster Irma Thomas will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at 9:30AM.
March 23 will be declared "Irma Thomas Day" in Louisiana by Sec. of State, Fox McKiethen! Buy this region's first compilation CD which masterfully combines zydeco, blues, rock, alternative, folk, 50's, bluegrass, jazz & funk onto one CD!
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This year's festival will host 68 bands on 9 different stages with genres of music including oldies, gospel, zydeco, blues, classical, jazz, alternative, rock, pop, country, and funk. Also included will be a hands-on children's art stage where art teachers will show students how to do different artistic techniques. Festival attendees will have the ability to stroll from stage to stage to hear this regions most popular groups. On the way, they will have the sensation of viewing art created by this areas newest and favorite artists. Set amongst a backdrop of the existing treasures in the numerous antique shops, this year's festival will again offer something for everyone to enjoy. Featured this year will be the dedication of two new visual arts projects in
Downtown Ponchatoula. Mike Fulmer of Berryland Motors is erecting a brick wall that
will be painted by PHS art students which will become a mural that will be unveiled at the
festival. At 9:30 AM., "Jam" Chair Dr. Ted Hudspeth and Public Arts
Commission Chair Kim Zabbia will pull the wraps from a 72' x 8' mural entitled "Ponchatoula
Celebrates the Arts." The mural, funded by Mike Fulmer and Berryland Motors, will
be located at the east end of the car lot on a 14' wall built specifically for this
purpose. The work was designed by Robert Dyer and Sarah Burleson, advanced art students at
Ponchatoula High School, and painted by "Zab's Kidz," a group of PHS art
students whose mission is to enhance the city through visual art. Zabbia is also the art
instructor at PHS. During this ceremony, Mrs. Irma Thomas, The Soul Queen of
New Orleans who was born in Ponchatoula, will be presented the second annual Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Northshore
Regional Endowment For The Arts. She will also be inducted into Ponchatoula's
newest attraction, The
Northshore Museum Of Music & Arts Hall of Fame, and will donate historically
significant items from her life in music to the museum. At 10:00 AM, the bands on all of the stages will begin playing. At 11 AM,
the Ponchatoula Public Arts Commission will unveil its second outdoor sculpture funded by
contributions from local supporters of the arts and from a grant from the Louisiana
Division of the Arts. The life-size bronze, entitled "The Horticulture Lesson,"
honors Ponchatoula's strawberry farming families. It depicts a farmer sitting on the
tailgate of his produce truck teaching his daughter the parts of the berry; his son
standing at his side. The sculpture, which will be located near the railroad tracks facing
East Pine Street, will be installed by the artist, Bill Binnings of Meraux, Louisiana. The
work will be dedicated in the memory of the late Homer Chaney, a 1968 graduate of
Ponchatoula High School.
Our MissionOur mission is to promote music and art education in the region and to increase the exposure of existing artists and musicians through various media/events. Increasing venues for musicians and artists to be seen and heard in the area is another objective as well as promoting the awareness of the rich and unique talent that exists in Southeastern Louisiana.
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