The Festival Network Adds Another Marquee Property to its Growing Repertoire of Iconic Festivals: The Martha’s Vineyard Festival is Set for August 12, 7:00 p.m., overlooking the Atlantic in Ocean Park, Oak Bluffs
NEW YORK, July 3, 2007 – The Festival Network, LLC, a company formed when Shoreline Media merged with George Wein’s Festival Productions at the beginning of the year, continues its mission of presenting high-end destination festivals around the world. The Martha’s Vineyard Festival, set for Sunday, August 12, at 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 4:30 p.m.) in Ocean Park, Oak Bluffs, features the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart with very special performances by vocalist Natalie Cole, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, among other special guests.
Tickets, which are $45 for adults/$15 for children, go on sale Thursday, July 5. Tickets are available nationwide at
www.festivalproductions.net or by calling (877) 655-4TIX (4849). On island ticket locations are Darosa’s / MV Printing, 46 Circuit Avenue, Oak Bluffs, (508-693-0110) and Vineyard Vines, 19 Winter Street, Edgartown, (508-627-4779). A portion of each ticket sold will benefit The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. The local media partner is mvyradio.
“We’re thrilled to again have the opportunity to present world class performers in one of the country’s most beautiful settings,” said Chris Shields, Festival Network’s CEO. “We’ve utilized our collective expertise in developing festivals, such as this with our friends on the Vineyard, that year-round and seasonal folks are sure to enjoy.”
Wein, Chairman of Festival Productions, a division of The Festival Network, added, “To produce this festival in New England at the same time as our flagship event, the Newport Jazz Festival, is both professionally very exciting and personally, quite emotional. This new festival is testament to the vision, creativity and strength of our Company and industry that have been my life. I am confident that the Vineyard Fest is an event we will celebrate for years to come.”
Martha’s Vineyard holds historical significance in Wein’s life. As a young jazz pianist in the 1950s, he frequently visited the area when he was courting Joyce Alexander, whose family had a home on Oak Bluffs. As a Caucasian jazz musician in love with an African-American woman, the relationship was the talk of the island. The couple endured the scrutiny, married in 1959 and shared a fairy-tale life filled with art and music, including founding the jazz and folk festivals in Newport and producing hundreds of festivals around the globe. Dorothy West based the plot of her book The Wedding (which later became a movie produced by Oprah Winfrey), on the Weins’ Oak Bluffs courtship and marriage.
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The Festival Network is a multifaceted marketing, production and media company that develops, acquires and produces highly visible festival properties in unique destinations around the globe. The Network’s roster of current events and historic media vaults dating back over a half century also serve as a platform to generate content tailor-made for premium broadcast distribution, after-market media and sponsorship. Since its inception in 1960, the Festival Network’s production division, Festival Productions, has maintained a tradition of working with leading brands, including JVC, Verizon, Dunkin’ Donuts, Mellon Bank, American Express, Ben & Jerry’s, Miller Brewing and many more, in hundreds of locations from New York to New Orleans, Chicago, Los Angeles, Bermuda, Tokyo, Paris and more.
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