Music Line Up All Set for White Squirrel Festival

The music is finally set for the White Squirrel Festival with the likes of Firecracker Jazz Band, Hobex, Patrick Smith Band, Sol Driven Train and The Mad Tea Party. Be sure to check the web site for any last minute changes. The photo here is of The Mad Tea Party, which I've heard good things about.

John Felty is the music organizer for this event and he also does The Mountain Song Festival. So he's good at what he does. (It helps that he's also the lead singer for Jupiter Coyote, so he has connections.) This event will be Saturday and Sunday, (Memorial Day weekend) May 26th and 27th, 2007 in downtown Brevard, NC. Be sure to book your hotel now since it gets crowded fast. There's a list of accomodations at the White Squirrel Festival web site as well.

Also, the first ever Squirrel Box Derby is shaping up nicely. We have several businesses in town who are quite sure they have built the fast go cart to go down jailhouse hill. For complete rules and to download an application go to the Squirrel Box Derby racing page. This race includes prizes for the Nuttiest, the Squirrliest, the Fastest Critter, People's Choice, Road Kill and the granddaddy of them all... The Golend Nut (best overall racer) John Taylor from OP Taylors has the advantage of having raced for ten years in a gravity racing event (The old Chimney Rock Gravity Race) He's supposedly builing two different models just to hedge his bets.

I would like to express my thanks to the good people at French Broad Place for donating the money to make this happen. They did it on the condition that all kids 8 to 17 years of age would be able to race for FREE! That's right... they get a t-shirt and get to race their cart free of charge. How cool is that?

So the event is set to go one month from today. I have already begun building my race machine and the details are being carefully guarded.

That's it for now from the White Squirrel Captial of the World... Brevard, NC.