Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater Festival

Monmouth County Friends of
Clearwater
Festival
"It's Up To Us"

Saturday, August 16 &
Sunday, August 17, 2008
11:00am - 7:00 pm
33rd Annual Clearwater Festival
11am-7pm Sunset Park, Asbury Park NJ 07712 www.mcclearwater.org/festival.php

New Jersey's largest eco-festival with live music by national and local performers on two stages, food, crafts, 'green' vendors, story telling, exhibits, a special children's area and more. This year's theme is 'Global Warming - You'd Better Sweat It'. The location in Sunset Park in Asbury Park is a shady spot on a lake blocks from the ocean. Hours are 11:30 am - 7 pm both days. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children 12 and over. Children under 12 are free. Wheelchair accessible throughout. Sign language interpreters are available.

Clearwater's annual open-air music and arts festival celebrating the spirit of people working and singing together for the environment. The finest in music and dance combines with environmental activism to celebrate our waterways. This year's festival is funded, in part, through grants from the New Jersey Environmental Endowment, the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the Sandy Hook Foundation. While not a fundraising event, any proceeds benefit Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater's environmental programs.

Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater is a grass roots organization, fully non-profit, volunteer-run and staffed. Since 1974, this organization has been actively trying to control pollution, educate children and adults, and stop sprawl in our domain: the estuaries of Raritan Bay, the New Jersey coastline, its inland waterways, and the land of Monmouth County.

Over 35 years ago, Pete Seeger realized a dream by getting the 106' Sloop "Clearwater" launched and spreading the word for a cleaner environment by word, music and action. A seed from that endeavor took root in the form of Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater when popular folksinger Bob Killian brought the idea to Monmouth County over three decades ago.

Our credo: It is the aim of Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater that each member in their own way touch the people immediately surrounding them and in their community, and by word or deed convey the importance of conservation and reparation of the earth.

Music Schedule (3 Stages)

http://www.mcclearwater.org/festival.php

Artist Links

www.mcclearwater.org/docs/clearwater-festival/FestivalPressKit.pdf