2011 BLUES FOR FOOD FEST
Fifth annual Labor Day weekend event celebrates music, community and food
WHAT IS BLUES FOR FOOD FEST?
- - An all-ages all-day celebration of good food, good friends and good music, featuring some of the finest blues bands in the Northwest.
- - A community party to raise awareness about hunger and the P-Patch gardens in Seattle that donate over 28,000 pounds of organic produce to people in need every year.
WHAT CAN YOU DO THERE?
- - Groove to local blues legends.
- - Enjoy fabulous food by local food truck vendors Where Ya at Matt and Pai’s food truck.
- - Bid on scrumptious pies at the homemade pie auction.
- - Donate your homegrown produce at the Lettuce Link/Solid Ground “Beet Hunger” booth.
- - Enjoy family fun: worm bin exploration, bug hunts, seed saving, nature art sculptures and harvesting vegetables in the P-Patch.
- -Tend the ”Sunflower Forest” for the Himawari Project (http://artistsforjapan.blogspot.com)
- - Learn how P-Patch gardeners are educating and inspiring all age groups about the joys of organic gardening.
WHY BLUES FOR FOOD FEST?
Seattle’s P-Patch giving gardens, community farms and community fruit tree harvests donate close to 15 tons of fresh organic produce every year to local food banks, meals-on-wheels programs, transitional housing, and shelters for women and children. BLUES FOR FOOD FEST is a collaborative effort with the Washington Blues Society. Proceeds from the event benefit the P-Patch Trust, local food banks and the WBS Musicians’ Relief Fund.
Saturday, September 3, 12 noon-9:00 pm
at Magnuson Park Amphitheatre& P-Patch,
7400 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle 98115
$20 for adults, $10 for kids under 12,
available in advance at
Brown Paper Tickets or at the door
Proceeds support P-Patch Trust and Washington Blues Society
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