Yesterday I traveled around town doing interviews for the festival Saturday & I just wanted to give a shout out to some of the media outlets that make this festival a success…

Started with the Tony Rose Morning Show on SAM 100.7 SAM, along with sister stations WOVO & The Point are all sponsors and the ad spot was playing while I was talking to Tony Rose. We did a live interview for his morning drive time show, always a pleasure. He has festival news updates set up for all day Saturday.

Next stopped by WNKY who is our largest media sponsor & have been running many spots on NBC 40 & CBS 40. Sat down for a chat about the festival with Morgan Watson & Radar for Bowling Green Today. Always a fun show with lots of community interest stories.

Final stop before getting back to last minute details was with Chad Young on Drive Time at WKCT. When I walked in Chad was playing a song from our reggae group Roots of a Rebellion. We had quite a long talk about not only festival details but how our local immigrants have added to what makes our community so special. We both agreed we were particularly fans of the evolution in food & music over the past decade. Chad is a big fan of HuDost who has a sound that comes from a talented artist who was turned on to music in Butler county and formed a group with another artist from who came to NY from Egypt by way of Montreal. WCKT is a major media sponsor as well as its sister station WDNS. The stations Tommy Starr always spins some music from our groups on his Homecookin’ show – he’s a tireless supporter of local music! Earlier in the week I got to sit down with Rockin’ Ronda on her show – she, well she just rocks! Always a great time checking in with Ronda.
During my travels I heard many compliments on the great job our volunteers have done putting up posters everywhere in several counties & around BG. Also heard praise for the spots running on Insight cable, another major sponsor and longtime supporter. Same kind of compliments came from spots running on WUHU, another fine radio station and large media sponsor.
I also heard people really enjoyed an article featured in the Daily News, which is a print media sponsor along with its local arts & entertainment publication, The Amplifier. Here’s a link to their feature which highlights the involvement of the India Culture & Heritage organization that recently formed, in part due to their excitement about sharing their culture for several years at the festival through a beautiful performance of classical Indian dance, Bharantanatyam by Rashana Pasupuleti. This year they will host several booths for the first time in addition to her three performances. Here is the article – http://bgdailynews.com/articles/2011/09/22/features/features1.txt

The College Heights Herald has also shown the festival much support over the years & ran an article yesterday here – http://wkuherald.com/news/article_1e509028-e57a-11e0-be28-0019bb30f31a.html

I’m sure I’m leaving out many as the fact is most all area media is very supportive of this event. BG Parent featured information on the festival in their quarterly publication, Bowling Green Area Convention & Visitor’s Bureau featured it in their newsletter, the WKU ALIVE Center for Community Partnerships featured it in their newsletter, WKU Media Relations included the day in their events newsletter and many of the performers and participants have been promoting through newsletters, emails, websites & facebook posts. Thanks to EVERYONE who is helping to spread the word in any way!

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