FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
12TH ANNUAL GROOVEFEST MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL
HISTORIC DOWNTOWN, CEDAR CITY, UTAH
12TH ANNUAL GROOVEFEST MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL
HISTORIC DOWNTOWN, CEDAR CITY, UTAH
JUNE 23- JUNE 29, 2014
May 1, 2014
Cedar City, Utah’s Groovefest Music & Art Festival is celebrating its 12th annual event in the community’s beautiful historic downtown district beginning on Monday, June 23rd and running through Sunday, June 29th for 2014.
Now recognized on the nation-wide festival circuit, the
celebration became a week-long festival in 2013 that includes national as well
as local musicians, artists and writers,
a children’s event, Groove Kids, the LitFest literary event, the
annual Campfire Concert in the Canyon, Kick-off Show, music workshops,
after-hours shows, the very popular Sunday Gospel Brunch, as well as the always
highly anticipated music performances in the downtown’s Main Street Park
alongside the Cedar City Arts Festival, now organized by Iron Mission
Foundation. In addition to the art, the Foundation also handles the planning of
the food vendors at Groovefest.
Groovefest began in 2002 as a small parking lot concert and
has blossomed into its current week-long extravaganza. With much hard work and
devotion from the Groovefest planning committee (better known as The Groove
Crew) the festival has garnered much national attention due to the wealth of
great talent that has appeared over the years. In addition, the event brings
well over one million and a half dollars of revenue to the local Cedar City
economy!
Tim Cretsinger, Groovefest founder and director sites the
abundance of amazing talent that exists in the United States: "Our goal is to
nurture and expand on the great musicianship we’ve discovered that there is out
there. What I want to do is to introduce our citizens to the wonderful
musicians that they may not have seen, but likewise to show our area to a group
of performers that may have never been to this beautiful place before. We live
in vacationland and I want to share that."
And it has paid off. "Not only do the musicians get a great reception here, but they love the area plain and simple!" says Cretsinger. "There have been bands we’ve signed on that have never been east of the Mississippi and they’re blown away!"
"I don’t even have to solicit entertainment any longer," he says. "They come to me with the desire to play here and that means success tome! Cedar City is now and forever on the map afar as a destination for musical performance!"
This year promises to be one of the best Groovefest yet,
promises Cretsinger, who has had some challenges in planning for 2014. In
December he was diagnosed with throat cancer and has spent the first few months
of the year undergoing treatments at the Huntsman Cancer
Center.
"The crew really stepped up this year and decided to take up the slack that I was leaving, so it may be the best one yet!" he notes.
Various fundraisers were implemented by the crew throughout the year to offset the costs that are required of a festival the magnitude of Groovefest. But the celebration would not be possible without continued support from the many local businesses and individuals who advertise and contribute to insure that Groovefest is successful year after year.
The Groovefest American Music Festival is truly a grassroots effort and the current list of dedicated partners proves it. To see the list of those who make Groovefest possible, plus everything that festival-goers need to know about the festival, go to www.groovefestutah.com.
There, in addition to this year’s partners, you’ll see
schedules, biographies, photos, arts festival info, and much more. There are
also many ways to connect with Groovefest on Facebook and various other social
media sites.
The schedule this year is extensive, so you’ll want to make
sure you find out as much as you can about all of the diverse happenings at
the12th annual Groovefest music & Art Festival. For further information,
you can also call 435-867-9800.
Official 2014 Groovefest Music & Art Festival Schedule of Events
(subject to change)
COMPLETE 2014 SCHEDULE
More information at www.GroovefestUtah.com
GROOVEFEST MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL
Organized by The Groove Crew & Iron Mission
Foundation
Monday, June 23, 7:00PM
Groove-Kids at Historic Cedar Theatre
presented by Anderton Orthodontics
Tuesday, June 24, 7:30PM
LitFest The Energy of Words at The Grind Coffeehouse
presented by Main Street Books
Wednesday, June 25
Campfire Concerts in the Canyon at Cedar Canyon
Nature Park
8:30PM: The Swift Shepard Project, 9:00PM: Good Company
Thursday, June 26, Kick-Off Shows
7:30PM: Loves It at The Grind Coffee House
8:30PM: Harper & Midwest Kind at The Grind Coffee
House
10:00PM: Blammity Blam at Mike’s Tavern
Friday, June 27 at Main Street
Park -Free
GROOVEFEST Music & Arts Festival
12:00PM: Welcome and Announcements
12:30: Wilhelm (Cedar
City, Utah)
1:15: Robert Frolli
1:30: Loves It (Austin,
Texas)
2:30: Shakespeare Cabaret
2:45: Bottled Monkey (Cedar
City, Utah)
3:45: Common Ground
4:00: Blammity Blam (Cedar
City, Utah)
5:00: Jolly Pants
5:15: Screen Door Porch (Jackson Hole, Wyoming)
6:15: Jason Gottfried
6:30: The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit (Oakdale, CA)
7:30: Efficiency
7:45: Harper & Midwest Kind (Savannah, Georgia)
9:15: Coral Thief
9:30: Stranger (San
Diego, CA)
Friday Workshops at the Grind Coffeehouse $
2:00: Heather Wilhelm (fiddle), 3:30: Harper (didgeridoo),
5:00: Cee Cee James (vocal)
Friday After Hours Party at Mike’s Tavern $
presented by Southwest Applied Technology
10:30PM: The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit
GROOVEFEST Music & Art Festival
Saturday, June 28 at Main Street
Park -Free
12:30: Jason Tyler Burton (Springdale, Utah)
1:15: Lyndy Butler
1:30: Alice Wallace (Fullerton,
California)
2:30: Hat Trio
2:45: Poeina Suddarth (Los
Angeles, California)
3:45: Mikalene Ipson
4:00: Steph Johnson Trio (South Park, California)
5:00: Billy & Sally
5:15: The Warren G. Hardings (Seattle, Washington)
6:15: Good Company
6:30: Felix Y Los Gatos (Albuquerque, New
Mexico)
7:30: Jason Tyler Burton
7:45: Blair Crimmins & The Hookers (Atlanta, Georgia)
9:15: House of Sons
9:30: Cee Cee James (Portland,
Oregon)
Saturday Workshops at The Grind Coffee House $
Bring your instrument or not. Be on time, this schedule is
tight.
2:00: Warren G. Hardings (open bluegrass)
3:15: Alice Wallace (yodel)
4:30: Taylor Kennedy of Blair Crimmins & the Hookers
(sax)
Saturday, June 28
Run for the Music 5K Fun Run
organized by Gateway
Preparatory Academy
Saturday After Hours at Mike’s Tavern $
presented by Southwest Applied Technology
10:30PM: The Warren G. Hardings
Sunday Groovefest Gospel Brunch at Grind Coffee House
presented by Best Western Town & Country Inn
11:00AM: Alice Wallace
12:00PM: Blair Crimmins & The Hookers
Sunday Redemption Hour at Mike’s Tavern $
2:00PM: Cee Cee James
Take Moment to Recognize and Thank Our 2014 Groovefest
Partners!!
GOLD
Cherry Creek Radio/KSUB
PRESENTERS
Anderton Orthodontics
Best Western Town & Country Inn
Gateway Preparatory Academy
Groovacious
Historic Cedar Theatre
Iron Mission Foundation
KSUU Power 91
Southwest Applied Technology
The Spectrum Daily News
UNDERWRITERS
Brian Head Resort
Camp Creek Trees
Convergys
Crystal Inn Hotel
Dailey Builders Inc.
The Grind Coffeehouse
Hughes & Associates
Iron
County Today
Las Vegas
Sun/Weekly
Marsha Bloom
Mike's Tavern
Robison Rentals
Rocky Mountain Power
Star Sign & Banner
State Bank of So. Utah
Utah
Shakespeare Festival
SPONSORS
All About Smiles Dentistry
Bradshaw Chevrolet Buick
Downtown Retail Alliance
El Rey - Stratford
Court - not on site
Frontier
Homestead State
Park - not on site
Galley Gala
Hunter's Portable Toilets
Independent Publishing Co.
Intersearch Intl Learning & Research
John & Nancy Graf
KOLOB Sound
Ken Bettridge Oil Dist.
KUER 90.1 University of Utah
SUU Department of Foreign Languages & Philosophy
Studio 546
CONTRIBUTORS
Artisans
Art Gallery
Bulloch Drug
Cedar Cottage Company
Cedar Post Pawn Shop
Green Family & MJ Cox
Jim & Jeanine Howells
JM Rigging Supply
Larry & Nancy Ping
Ogden's
Flooring & Design
O'Reilly Auto Parts
Pathway to Healing
State Farm Suzette Cardon & Amy Carter
William J. Byrnes
Yoga Shop
(it’s not too late to add your name to this list and appear
on the 2014 Groovefest poster!)
