Blues & Jazz Festival

Helpful Tips
• Bring your blanket or lawn chair.
• A wide variety of festival fare from local vendors and
restaurants will be available for purchase.
• Coolers are permitted.
• Please leave your pets at home.
PETS ARE NOT PERMITTED at the Festival.

Getting Here
The Festival is held at Frontier Park, located at the corner of West 8th Street and the Bayfront Parkway in Erie, Pa.

By Bike: Support the Festival’s GREEN efforts and ride your bike to the Festival. A bike corral will be located at the Festival’s Information Tent near the entrance to the Festival grounds. Check your bike for FREE.

By Foot: The multi-purpose trail along the Bayfront Parkway now connects Frontier Park with the parking lots at Liberty Park Park & Ride on the Bayfront Parkway. Festival visitors can walk without having to cross the Bayfront Parkway.

By Car:
• From south–follow I-79 North until it turns into the Bayfront Parkway. At the second light, turn left onto Greengarden, proceed north to Frontier Park.
• From west–take I-90 East to Exit 22, follow I-79 North as above.
• From east–take I-90 West to Exit 22, follow I-79 North as above.
• Handicapped drop-off and parking on West 8th Street.

Parking
FREE Festival parking is available along West 8th Street, throughout the Frontier Park neighborhood and on Greengarden Blvd., south of West 8th Street. When parking at the lot on Greengarden Blvd., please consider making an optional $2 donation to the Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park to offset your carbon emissions.

Parking also is available at the Park & Ride at Liberty Park along the Bayfront Parkway.

Staying Here
Festival visitors planning on staying overnight in Erie may contact the Avalon Hotel, (814) 459-2220 or the George Carroll House (814) 459-2021 for reservations. Visitors may also contact VisitErie at (814) 454-7191.

Tent and Cooking Policy
Due to the increasing attendance at the Festival, the Erie Art Museum will enforce a strict tent policy this year. In addition to regulating tent placement, the Erie Art Museum will not permit any tents to be set up prior to 9 a.m. on Saturday, August 2. Festival staff will strictly enforce this regulation. All tents set up prior to this time will be taken down and can be redeemed at the Festival’s Information Tent. Additionally, please note that overnight camping at Frontier Park is against City of Erie ordinance, as is open-flame cooking (e.g., charcoal grills and turkey fryers) and that City of Erie police will be strictly enforcing this rule. Propane grills are permitted.

Festival Poster
The 2008 Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival artwork was created by artist/illustrator Tom Tucker.

Thank you to Icon Screenprinting for printing the collectible poster.

Festival Merchandise
Limited edition T-shirts, buttons and Festival posters as well as crowd-pleasing bubbles, glowsticks and inflatable instruments will be sold at the Festival’s Information Tent, located at the entrance to the Festival grounds along West 8th Street. The same merchandise will also be available at the T-shirt Tent near the stage along with CDs from some of this year’s musicians.

Supporting Us
Thanks to our sponsors, all Festival performances and activities are FREE to Festival visitors; the Erie Art Museum asks for your support by donating to the Festival’s Bucket Brigade, which circulates through the Festival grounds throughout the weekend. Consider a minimum $5 donation for every person in your party.

Greening-Up
The Festival has partnered with the Lake
Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park (LEAF) and
WJET-TV/WFXP's Erie Green to do our part to reduce waste and implement environment friendly Festival operations.

You can support our efforts in the following ways:
1. Recycle what you bring–no styrofoam or other non-recyclable materials. Recycling cans are located throughout the Festival grounds.
2. Walk or ride your bike to the Festival.
3. If you do drive, consider making an optional $2 donation to offset your carbon emissions to LEAF when you park your car at the free Festival parking on Greengarden Blvd.

The Erie Art Museum and our partners are doing our part too:
1. Styrofoam of any kind is prohibited and serving cups or plates must either be compostable or biodegradable (paper).
2. We've limited the need for cutlery by serving foods that do not require the use of cutlery.
3. Condiments are in "pump" style dispensers, not individual packets.
4. 100% organic cotton T-shirts are available for purchase.
5. Festival guide is printed on paper that is 30% post consumer waste.

Volunteers Needed
Volunteers assist with all aspects of the Festival, from Bucket Brigade to backstage production. To volunteer, call the Erie Art Museum, (814) 459-5477.