![]() “People passed on some bigger name things so they could be in Bowling Green,” Donnelly said. The Black Swamp Arts Festival gets good music and artists because the event organizers know how to treat the performers and artists, according to festival chair Bill Donnelly. “We had a little bit of local flare,” Concannon said. “I think it was a really fun weekend.”Īcts came from as far away as Madagascar and as close by as Bowling Green’s backyard. “I think it was fabulous from start to finish,” said Tim Concannon, co-chair of the music with Cole Christensen. “They had great sales yesterday and typically today is even better.”Īnd the music kept pumping all three days. ![]() “Most of the vendors that I visited with are loving the crowd,” Stacy Poca, chair of the visual arts at the festival, said late Sunday afternoon. Shoppers check out art at Black Swamp Arts Festival on Sunday. Out on Main Street, the artists were also pleased with the number of people buying – not just browsing. Everybody wants to come back next year,” she said. “They’re not going to be taking much back,” this year, Craft Ahrens said.Īnd the food vendors went through countless pounds of potatoes, sirloin tips and corn dogs. The beer supplier, Heidelberg Distribution, takes the surplus beer back each year. ![]() “People are still coming in and buying strings of tickets” for beer, Shaffer said as Nikki D & the Browns sang their gospel blues on stage.Ĭraft Ahrens said sales were up for beer, food and merchandise at the 27th annual festival. Nikki D and the Browns perform Sunday at Black Swamp Arts Festival. “Yesterday and Friday were our best days ever,” Dave Shaffer, former chair of the festival, said Sunday as he watched the unusually large numbers continue coming into the beer garden. There is really no good way to get a definitive number – but the Black Swamp Arts Festival coordinators know that this year was big – really big. “And of course you have people who come all three days,” Craft Ahrens said. They have tried images from drones, photos from the tops of downtown buildings, and this year tried hand-counters that clicked off people as they entered the expanded beer garden in the concert venue. “I think yesterday might have been a record-breaking day,” said Amy Craft Ahrens, chair of the concessions for the festival.īlack Swamp organizers haven’t yet found a way to accurately count festival-goers. The Black Swamp Arts Festival sent crowds home this weekend with bulging shopping bags, full bellies, and music rolling around in their heads.
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