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Americana Festival

Event Details

Time: July 4, 2009 at 9am
Location: Centerville streets
Street: North Main Street and Franklin Street
City/Town: Centerville, OH 45459
Website or Map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?…
Phone: (937) 901-1351
Event Type: performance
Organized By: Adam King
Latest Activity: Mar 14, 2010

Event Description

UDPATE!!!: OUR TWO EXHIBITIONS WILL BE 11:30-Noon at Activity Center Park with parking at Incarnation Parish Center off State Route 48 and Williamsburg Lane and 1:30-2:30 at Routsong Funeral Home (dancers will be golf-carted to the second exhibition if needed).

This is Centerville/Washington Township's July 4 celebration, which draws a crowd of 75,000 throughout the day (Centerville is near Dayton). They would like us to participate in the mile-long, 90-minute parade if we so wish, but we would need to be there by 9 a.m. for the 10 a.m. parade start. If you're going to this event, let me know ASAP this is something you would or would not want to do. The parade is the highlight event of the day apparently with 120 groups/floats/bands in the parade. The pics of the parade on the Web site (www.americanafestival.org) are pretty amazing. The festival runs from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., then it shifts to the high school stadium for entertainment beginning at 8:30 p.m. with fireworks at 10 p.m. Let me know in the comments below if you want to make a full day of this complete with fireworks. I'm going to charge them a performance fee so we can recoup some of our expenses (gas for the drivers and food while we're there). The festival provides water for performers and parking. If we give them a car count, they can reserve spaces for us in the performers' parking lot, so let's see if we can carpool. The organization just sent me an email confirming our participation and asking about our parade availability, so please RSVP soon.

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Comment by Everett Fridenmaker on January 20, 2009 at 11:42pm: Kati will also be going and all day is fine with us.

Comment by LINDA on February 15, 2009 at 4:05pm: yes I want to be there and I am up for being in the parade also .

Comment by Erin on June 8, 2009 at 10:58am: I would do the event, but I don't care to do the parade.

Comment by Adam King on June 8, 2009 at 12:42pm: If you don't want to do the parade, just show up for the exhibitions. We're doing two shows this day. Also, I'll need to know how many cars we're bringing in total, so let's discuss if we want to carpool.

Comment by LINDA on June 30, 2009 at 10:17pm: I am planning on car pooling with Geraldine and also Kristina . I think kristina will be driving her van and we will ride with her there. We were thinking that the meijers on rome hilliard road is a good place to meet and have people leave cars., Adam can decide on the meeting details,. I just thought this was a good area since it is on our way .

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