EPS is proud to announce we have been chosen as the Local Producer for the Green Apple Festival.
This is taking place Sunday, April 20, 2008 at Fair Park, Dallas, Texas. Click on the banner for more information.
THE 2008 GREEN APPLE FESTIVAL
- Is one of the largest Earth Day gatherings in U.S. history
- Presents eight, simultaneous events at landmark parks across the country on April 20, 2008
- Is located in parks, rather than concrete venues, chosen with eco-considerations such as easy foot/bike access and public transportation
- Will “green” over 150 music venues over Earth Day Weekend in each Green Apple city
- Is produced in partnership with Earth Day Network, founders of the original “Earth Day” in 1970
Stay tuned for more about the Green Apple Festival!
Pachanga Latino Music Festial
EPS has been chosen to produce various aspects of the inaugural Pachanga Latino Music Festival,
to be held at Waterloo Park in Austin, Texas on May 31st. More information at their website.
EPS is proud to announce our partnership with Twin Parks Country Club. EPS has been brought on to manage special events and venue rentals.
Go to the VENUE page for more information.
Recent Press for EPS Events:
The A-List: Keep Austin Weird Festival, 06.16.07
From Austin360:
Despite rain earlier in the day, Austinites came out en masse to the Keep Austin Weird Festival Saturday at Republic Square, a very family-friendly -- and wacky -- event confined to a rather compact section of downtown.
The Austin Farmers Market transformed into the festival around noon. Paying customers got a wristband and then checked out booths selling or sampling items such as health/energy bars, cold Starbucks treats and running shoes.
AT&T helped raise the bar this year by bringing out some of the world's top bicycle criterium racers. These cyclists from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, New Zealand and Europe battled wheel to wheel, occasionally crashing as they made their way around the four-block course. The criterium itself isn't so weird, but making it a part of the festival certainly was. See usacrits.com for more criterium information.
Being in Austin, there was also plenty of good music. The Steps offered up their garage rock revival sound. (If you missed them, they will also be at the Austin City Limits Festival later this year.) Other acts included Patricia Vonne, described as "a Tex -Mex spitfire with a rock 'n' roll heart;" the South Austin Jug Band; Alejandro Escovedo; Soulhat; and Bob Schneider, who was quite pleased to be his usual weird self.
Click here to view photos from this event.
KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD FESTIVAL
Austinites keeping up weird appearances
Fifth annual festival draws crowds to Republic Square Park.
By Katie Humphrey
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Weird starts at a young age in Austin. Decked out in a black and white Led Zeppelin onesie, 3-month-old Shayne Austin Luther was soaking it all in Saturday at the Keep Austin Weird Festival in Republic Square Park. Well, his mom, Laura Luther, 34, hoped that he was learning a few things. "I'm hoping he'll be a little musician," she said as they sat on a grassy knoll, music from the Steps blaring from the stage. The fifth annual festival celebrating Austin's spirit and well-known tag line drew hundreds of people of all ages to the square to enjoy music, food, fitness and shopping. Luther, who moved to Austin from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, said she quickly fell in love with her adopted city. But it was the weird, friendly people who convinced her to stay. "I like weird," she said. "It makes life more interesting." The little Luther wasn't the only youngster relishing Austin culture. Aspiring musicians as young as 11 from the Paul Green School of Rock Music opened the live-music lineup. "What's more weird than having kids play heavy metal in the middle of the day in a city park?" mused Rick Carney, the school's branch manager. Cyclists whizzed by in the background, racing along the city streets for the AT&T Downtown Criterium, a timed bike race. And more than 2,000 runners were expected to participate in the early evening Keep Austin Weird 5K race and 1K Kid's Run.
"It's just a celebration of everything that makes this city so great," said event organizer Michelle Graham of RunTex. Proceeds from the event, sponsored by AT&T and H.E. Butt Grocery Co., benefit the RunTex Carrozza Foundation, a nonprofit group that provides running shoes, coaching and race entry fees for people with low incomes. Mayor Will Wynn said he brought his daughters and their friends to the event to support the foundation and also to back up the saying on his tie-dyed "Keep Austin Weird" T-shirt. The city is so weird, he joked, that his parents bought a house in Round Rock. But what exactly makes Austin weird? Wynn said it is the high quality of life in a growing city that feels small. "We don't feel nearly as large . . . because we have a unique quality of life," Wynn said.
Timothy McKinney, who came to the festival dressed in his "Wandering Pilgrim" medieval-style costume, said weirdness is all about originality. McKinney, 36, said he came clothed for the occasion just because he could, because anything goes in this weird city. "I'm just out in celebration of the weirdness of Austin," McKinney said.
khumphrey@statesman.com; 445-3658