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2008 RMAC  24th ANNUAL ART & CRAFT FALL FESTIVAL

The 24th Annual Rockaway Music and Arts Council's Fall Festival is scheduled to be  held at historic Jacob Riis Park on Saturday and Sunday,  September  13 & 14, 2008.  This festival draws over 25,000  visitors who experience great art and crafts, good food, family entertainment and just plain fun.
If you are interested in displaying your art or craft in our 2008 Festival please contact
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 SUNSET PICNIC CONCERT SERIES CANCELLED

 Last year Gateway National Recreation Area Park Superintendent Lisa Eckert requested that we re-locate our Summer Picnic Concert Series to Riis Park since she wants all special events to be held there. First the Bay 9 Mall was selected and then the area in front of the Riis Park Bathhouse. But both sites were not an option for our concerts with their concrete, beach traffic, and parking facilities some distance from the sites proposed.  If you have attended the concerts for the past 20 years, you will agree that the quiet, cozy Fort Tilden venue on the grass with trees as “on-lookers,” the kids playing within a safe, area and convenient parking (including handicap parking) far surpasses that of the Riis Park sites with their less intimate conditions.

  Because we did not want to cancel our concerts, RMAC reluctantly agreed that the unfinished, inside courtyard of the Bathhouse might do if it were cleaned up, the sand covered or somehow made comfortable for the audience,  free parking arrangements worked out, and tne Wenger Wagon (portable stage) is able to negotiate the turn into the courtyard. Unfortunately as of this writing nothing has been guaranteed.

 RMAC should have scheduled artists many months ago, but was not able to do so due to Superintendent Eckert’s unreasonable request and the problems associated with it. As the Superintendent cannot be convinced of the fact that Fort Tilden is the only site for the concerts, RMAC has been forced to cancel this year's Concert Series. We hope to, once again, present our concerts next year in Fort Tilden.

 

                      

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For More Information Contact:
Rockaway Music & Arts Council, Inc.
P.O. Box 0171, Rockaway Beach, NY 11693
Tel: 718-474-6760
Email: RMAC
 

Last modified: 04/06/08