Wake Forest Festival Park

New Education Director - Bridget O. Lee-Young

2008-01-31T10:02:00.000-08:00

Bridget O. Lee-Young has assumed the duties of Education Director for HerbFest, 2008.

The HerbFest whose permananent home is Festival Park is expanding the activities offered at HerbFest. There will be free classes and exhibits on the many aspects of crafting with herbs, landscape gardening, cooking classes, lectures by leading landscape associates and various civic groups. There has always been an overwhelming urge of customers to know as much as they can about how to grow and use the bounty from their herb gardens and now Mrs. Lee-Young is creating the classes for the varied interests of the HerbFest customers.

This is cited by Bob and Elizabeth Johnson, founders of HerbFest, as one of the most important and needed services for the continued success of HerbFest. Bridget brings a strong background in association manangement and is a C.P.A. so she has great analytical strengths. Bridget was very instrumental in the creation and production of the popular "Teen Battle of The Bands" at Festival Park this past year, along with her husband Marc.

Festival Park Gearing Up for HerbFest, 2008

2008-01-24T08:46:00.000-08:00

Our facility is starting to look at landscape designs, landscape designers, and landscape architects to help us realize how to xeriscape our property utilizing herbs and perennials in a drought tolerant environment. Due to the drought conditions we've experienced the past year we want to be conscious of our social obligations to our community to wisely use water resources.

Many of the plants will be those available from the Herbfest as one of the major themes this year is drought gardening and landscape management.

At this year's herbfest we will be doing free classes to inform the customers on the hows and whys we chose to landscape as we will at Festival Park.

Wake Forest Christmas Parade

2007-12-10T08:29:00.000-08:00

The new Festival Park in Wake Forest proved to be a new pathway and staging area for many at this year's Christmas Parade in historic downtown Wake Forest. In a town with a population of approximately 15,000 people, 3,500 of them actually marched in the Xmas parade. It was one of the largest ever and best attended. The parade itself last over 2 hours and was fun times for all.

The new pathway created by Festival Park proved to be a popular walk for those attending the parade. Many used the "walk in the woods" to come to the parade after parking their cars a block away. The entrance was originally completed for the Battle of The Bands which was a fund raiser for the GJCAE fund.

Homemade Otis Spunkmeyer cookies were given out in the parade to many by Janna Johnson to promote the Graham Johnson Cultural Arts Endowment ( GJCAE) and The Cotton Company.

Festival Park is the new home for HerbFest, 2008.

Battle of The Bands Advice on Amps

2007-11-15T08:02:00.003-08:00

After last week's performances here is some practical advice on how to sound craft:

http://onstagemag.com/ar/performance_sounding_off/index.htm

Amps and audibility

2007-11-15T07:17:00.000-08:00

Hey, all of you younger musicians. One of the hardest things to learn is to keep your amps quiet. After 30 years I still catch myself doing it.

Keep your amp down and let the sound guys control the mix. When you try to participate in controlling the mix the levels rise feed back loops around, someone becomes louder than another...IT"S A MESS! It's simply not possible for us musicians on stage to hear the whole mix or know what's really going on. Listen to your sound man!!!

All of the greats, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Marshall Tucker, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Satrianni, David Gilmore, Angus Young, Brian May, Carlos Santana, Richie Sambora, Kieth Richards, Kirt Hammett and even Slash use little bitty amps and keep the volume low.

I remember the first time I saw Stevie Ray at Constitution Hall. The curtain opened and there was this amp about the size of a lunch box. I was shocked! Then he picked up his guitar and smoked the house and you could hear every note!

Thank you,

Marc Duncan CEI
www.dundeeco.com

Battle of Bands Previews Festival Park in Wake Forest, N.C.

2007-11-14T09:56:00.000-08:00

The past weekend was a preview of what is to become the festival gathering place in Wake Forest for bands, Herbfest - http://www.herbfest.net/ , home of the Graham Johnson Cultural Arts Endowment, http://www.gjcae.org/ and more art events for the greater RTP community and Northeast quadrant of N.C.

You can see the potential of this venue with the massive indoor area and open bays that will highlite the soon to be gardens and wild fowl strutting around the premises. Visit the site at http://www.festivalpark.org/ .