WHAT: BLUES FOR FOOD FEST is an all-ages event featuring some of the finest blues bands in the Northwest, organic food vendors, a homemade pie auction, and children's hands-on gardening activities. Lettuce Link/Solid Ground will be at the BLUES FOR FOOD FEST to collect fresh organic vegetable donations at the “Beet Hunger" booth! It will be harvest time, so donate generously! The food banks need us!
Local farmers market favorite, Green Go Food will serve up delicious organic grass-fed beef hamburgers and savory polenta cakes.
Yum! A Homemade Pie Auction! P-Patch Pie Queens will be tempting your taste buds with delicious harvest time pies!
WHEN: August 30, 2008, 11 AM-7 PM
Brian Butler Blues 11-11:50 am
Billy Roy Danger & the Rectifiers 12:00-1:30 pm
Crossroads Blues Band 2-3:30 pm
Polly O'Keary and the Rhythm Method 4-5:30 pm
Mark Riley 6:00-7:00 pm
WHERE: Magnuson Park Amphitheater, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98115
Bike or bus if you can, but if you're driving there's LOTS of free parking!
WHY: BLUES FOR FOOD FEST benefits the P-Patch Trust. The P-Patch Trust provides community gardens with small development grants, plot rental fees for low-income gardeners, and tools for all at the garden to use. Seattle's P-Patch food bank gardens, community farms, and community fruit tree harvests donate more than 20 tons of fresh organic produce every year to local food banks, meals-on-wheels programs, transitional housing, and shelters for women and children.
COST: Tickets $10 children under 12 / $20 teens and adults. Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets.
Tickets also available at the door. This will be an alcohol-free, all-ages event.
For more information contact All About Jazz.
