Sponsors

Clarkston City Blues Concert and Festival

Milam Park, Clarkston, GA

Blues Concert and City Festival

Saturday, September 25, 2010, 10a-9p

City Festival and 2 Entertainment Stages

Sunday, September 26, 2010, 10a-7p

Estimated Attendance: 20,000 – 25,000

Download sponsor packet and full sponsorship details here:

Benefits of Sponsoring the Clarkston City Blues Concert and Festival

  • Have access to one of the most sought after demographic niches in the country: This is an exceptional opportunity to reach the sophisticated Metro Atlanta market
  • Professional marketing and extensive media coverage: We have several professional marketing teams promoting the festival including: digital billboards, radio, TV coverage, social media campaigns and more – all of which you can benefit from with sponsorship.
  • Show your company’s commitment to the arts and local community: The event offers a great way for you to show your commitment to the residents of the Metro Atlanta Area.
  • Demonstrate, sample or test market your product: Receive instant responses about your products and/or services from attendees.
  • A unique opportunity to engage with people and promote your brand: Event attendees are a captive, receptive audience that has time to look, listen and hear about your products and/or services.
  • Reach a large audience with repeated impressions: Your company name and/or logo will appear on the event’s advertising and in all promotional materials, include the official festival website.
  • Develop new business contacts and generate valuable leads: The Event provides you with a unique networking opportunity to connect with the community in a fun and entertaining environment.

Car Dealerships


Colleges and Universities please download this form

Talk to an executive board member about sponsorship

Dianne Leonetti,
404-786-9977 -Direct
C larkston City Councilwoman
dianneleonetti@yahoo.com

Lewis McTush
(404) 271-0871 -Direct
Promotions & Marketing
E-mail:  lewis.special5@gmail.com


Clarkston City Blues Concert and International Festival Finance and Sponsorship Committee Members:

Gainesville / Clarkston VCOF Veterans & Community Outreach Foundation Inc.
www.vcof.org a (501(c)3 organization umbrella Satellite Office,

  • Rev. Victor L. Johnson, CEO & Pres, Founder, VCOF, 996 Athens Hwy. Gainesville, GA. 30501
  • Larry Roberts, Chairman of the Board, VCOF, vcof@bellsouth.net, 770-531-0046
  • Rev. Karl D. Moore, Vice Chairman, Executive VCOF Board of Clarkston, First Baptist Church of Clarkston

Clarkston City Blues Concert and Festival Finance and Sponsorship Committee Members:

H. Lewis McTush, COO, Exec. Board of Directors, Veterans & Community Outreach Foundation Inc.    Talent Coordinator, (404) 271-0871 Email:  lewis.special5@gmail.com Gainesville/Clarkston  (VCOF)   (501(c)3  Umbrella Satellite Office Larry Roberts, Chairman of The Board, VCOF vcof@bellsouth.net (770) 531-0046

FESTIVAL  and BLUES CONCERT OVERVIEW

Join Holiday Inn Decatur: Clarkston Festival Sponsor

The Clarkston Festival Committee has put together a premier event that will cele­brate diversity, encourage a greater understanding of cultural differences through music, the arts and food and to provide a venue for promoting local and regional businesses and talent. Art and music touch the heart‘, inspire the imagination and draw people together. Add a wonderful food experience and you have an event that will knock your socks off!! Clarkston is truly the best kept secret in Atlanta – give us 2 days and we will show you why!

Clarkston City Blues Festival  2010

“The Clarkston City Blues Concert and Festival”- is the ultimate International festival experience that ignites on more than 5 acres in Milam Park. This annual 2-day music blowout features 2 stages offering live music all day in front of over 30,000 fans. Clarkston City Fest will fill up to 20 slots with artists who submit online through Sonicbids! Or by direct e-mail to info@clarkstonfestival.com or PO Box 68 Clarkston, GA. 30021

The festival celebrates diversity in music and features dozens of local, regional and national performers in genres including everything from alternative, country, R&B and reggae to blues, zydeco, rock n’ roll, pop, Latin and more. This year’s Clarkston Fest performers include 4 National Blues performing acts, and many local and regional performers in Jazz, Gospel and International music genres.

This year’s Clarkston City Blues Concert and Festival will provide exciting and affordable entertainment for all ages and musical tastes, plus a variety of food, shopping and children’s activities. The City Festival will also include a DeKalb County Health Fair and Veterans Services Village. Clarkston Fest is an end of summer celebration and destination.

DETAILS:

The Clarkston City Blues Concert & Festival is a premier event building on previous events to make Clarkston the music capital of the Metro Atlanta area. To accommodate the overwhelming popularity of our previous events we have moved the concert and festival to Milam Park just a little bit east of Clarkston City Center. We wanted to provide a beautiful, peaceful relaxed venue for our attendees and you will not be disappointed. Look for September 2010 to be bigger and better than anything Clarkston has seen to date!

Download sponsor packet and full sponsorship details here:

WHO:

The Clarkston Festival Committee is working in partnership with the City of Clarkston and with a number of local community civic and non-profit organizations in DeKalb County, Georgia and business partners to insure a large turnout for this premier event. Proceeds from the event, after paying the bills and setting aside seed money for next year’s event, will go towards revitalization projects in the city of Clarkston that will benefit all residents.

Listed below are but a few of our civic and community service organizations that have contributed time and energy to the planning and putting on of this wonderful event.

Blues in the Schools Program

City of Clarkston

Clarkston Business Association

Clarkston Community Center

Clarkston Health Collaborative

DeKalb Neighborhood Leadership

Refugee Family Services

Step Up In Georgia, Inc.

Veterans and Community Outreach Foundation of Clarkston, Inc.

WHERE: Milam Park, 3867 Norman Rd., Clarkston, GA 30021

Close to town – neighbors with Atlanta

This beautiful park within the city limits of Clarkston is perfectly situated off nearby 285, 85, 78, 20 and Ponce de Leon to attract Festival-goers, Blues-lovers and Veterans from:

Atlanta – 10 m, 23 minutes

Avondale Estates – 4.1 m, 8 minutes

Buckhead – 10.2 m, 26 minutes

Chamblee - 10.7 m, 17 minutes

Conyers – 21.6 m, 27 minutes

Decatur – 4.9 m, 11 minutes

Doraville – 9.5 m, 15 minutes

East Point – 18.3 m, 32 minutes

Ellenwood – 18.9 m, 24 minutes

Embry Hills – 7.5 m, 12 minutes

Lawrenceville – 25 m, 34 minutes

Lilburn – 10.2 m, 18 minutes

Lithonia – 15.8 m, 22 minutes

North Druid Hills – 7.8 m, 17 minutes

NorthLake – 4.8 m, 9 minutes

Norcross – 13.6 m, 20 minutes

Pine Lake – 3.5 m, 8 minutes

Roswell – 23.2, 33 minutes

Sandy Springs – 16.5 m, 24 minutes

Snapfinger – 11 m, 16 minutes

Snellville – 14.5 m, 22 minutes

Stone Mountain – 5.6 m, 10 minutes

Tucker – 5.1 m, 11minutes

Download sponsor packet and full sponsorship details here:

This 2-day event is actually 2 distinct events in one, The Clarkston City Blues Concert and The City Festival with 2 live performance stages giving attendees 20 hours of live entertainment and a slam-bam weekend of fun!!!

Professional Marketing & Promotion!

The Clarkston City Blues Concert and Festival is being aggressively marketed by The Clarkston Festival Committee with the help of a nationally known B2B/Advertising firm: MLT Creative. We are targeting people who love learning about the cultures, follow local/regional talent and artists, follow the blues music genre, are patriotic and have discretionary income. Our marketing and promotions efforts include print, radio, TV, posters, postcards, flyers, our web sites and internet event listings. It is our goal to bring thousands of qualified attendees to the Concert and Festival.

These are list of some, but not all, of the media, publications, websites, radio and TV stations that the Festival Committee is using to target and to promote the event to the Metro Atlanta Area and the nation.

  • The Atlanta Journal Constitution, circulation 200,000
  • Creative Loafing, circulation130,000
  • Local, Cultural and Regional newspapers including
    • Viva Latina – circulation 78,000
    • Mundo Hispanic Atlanta – circulation 61,500
    • Gwinnett Daily Post – circulation 60,000
    • DeKalb Neighbor – circulation 49,100
    • Atlanta Business Chronicle – circulation 38,000
    • The Champion Free Press – circulation 24,500
    • Atlanta Intown – www.atlantaintownpaper.com
    • Crossroads News
    • Hometown News, Inc. – www.hometownnewsatlanta.com
      • The Decatur Dispatch covering Decatur, Druid Hills, Emory, Sage Hill and Toco Hill
      • The Brookhaven Buzz, The Tucker Times, Lilburn Living, Norcross News, Ponce Press
  • TV – the event will be publicized via promotional spots and live interviews
    • WAGA – Fox 5 TV Morning shows
    • WSB – Action News 2
    • WXIA – Eleven Alive
    • WATL – 36 – My ATL TV
    • WGCL – CBS 46
  • Radio Stations – the event will be publicized via community service promotional and 30 and 60 second spots
    • WRFG 89.3 FM
    • WCLK 91.9 FM
    • WGST 640 AM
    • WSB 750 AM
    • WGKA 920 AM
    • WMBL – 1690 – the Voice of the Arts
  • Clear LCD Billboards on 285 and 78 with over 2 million hits per day
  • Active Social Media Campaign – YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, et al
  • Festival Website – www.clarkstonfestival.com with links to all sponsors and promoters, also an email address collection point
  • Email distribution list in the 10’s of thousands
  • Banners – A minimum of 50 City Street Pole banners, 2’ x 6’, will line Ponce de Leon, Church St. and the N. Indian Creek intersections for a maximum drive-by view by 600,000 cars per week.

Ready to participate?

Download sponsor packet and full sponsorship details here:

Fliers – Customized fliers will be distributed at retail outlets throughout the Metro Atlanta area.

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