The Only Poetry Festival on the Texas Caprock

Registration is $10.00 for anyone who plans to attend. We ask that you register to help us with our plans for the events and the cook-out. Don't forget our downhome TexasBAR-B-Q a donation is appreciated, we don't want anyone to go hungry, so any amount you contribute will help. Pre-registration of $25.00 will include a T shirt .

Where: Forrest Park, Lamesa, Texas,
on Highway 87, between Lubbock and Big Spring, Texas
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Free RV parking and camping are available in the park.

T-Shirts Adult S,M,L, XL, XXL and Children's sizes as well available in advance for $10.00.
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Late Registration: A registration booth will be set up in Forrest Park. Registration is $10 and a donation of $10 for BBQ is suggested.

Contact Connie Williams for details by telephone to 806.777.9864, or by email: To send an email, cclick the text image below or pass your mouse over it to see the address:

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Friday Evening, April 27, 2007, :

The festival will begin on Friday evening. Steve Brooks will be at the Sky Vue Drive Inn for a pre-show event on the ramp house roof where Don Walser and Buddy Holly both got their start. 7:00 pm at the Lamesa Park on the Square, downtown Lamesa, Edgar Pace, Percussionist/Poet; Barbara Ann, the Pink Poet, and Brad Odom, Levelland Acoustical guitarist, and Nikki Lee of Lamesa will open for the Coyote Poets of the Universe from Denver, Colorado, a ten member group of poet musicians.

Schedule - Subscribe to the Forrest Fest newsletter for updates and announcements.

Saturday Morning, April 28th 2006:

Coffee and Donuts will be available starting about 8am. Forrest Fest fournishes a tree to be planted in the park each year. We will begin with the traditional tree dedication at 10:00am hosted by Cathy Martin of Abilene, Texas.
11am Round Robin of Poets in the Forrest Park Plaza
11:30 am Children's open mic

Saturday Afternoon

BBQ will begin at 11:30am for participants,
12:00pm for General Public. Hippie Rick will host the entertainment venue with music by Steve Brooks, Paula Held, Cathy Martin and Jesse Diaz, Poetry by Chuck Taylor, Amanda McHale, Julie Clark, Gene Stafford, Connie Williams, Robin Cravey, Tony Blisard, . . . .

1:30pm to 2:30 pm Roan Irish:The West Texas Celtic ensemble Roan Irish (Gaelic for "Island of the Seals")

An interactive show is planned to promote awareness of the Celtic heritage and culture on the South Plains, Llano Estacado, and West Texas, while encouraging audience participation through traditional Irish and Scottish song and dance.

Roan Inish will perform a wide variety of invigorating Irish, Scottish, and American Civil War jigs, slip jigs, reels, slides, slow airs, hornpipes, barn dances, and polkas on traditional and non-traditional instruments, while Kristen Williamson will display an array of Irish dances including, hard and soft shoe step dancing. In addition, Roan Inish will weave the occasional traditional heroic Gaelic and Irish Revolt ballad or Irish Pub song, throughout the performance.

Workshop:

All Afternoon: Mud Mural with Bob Mud from Australia. Art workshop for all ages, paint with good old Dawson County earth on a unique wall painting, a thousand trees for texas
3:00pm to 5:00 pm Thom the World Poet will present a poetry workshop. Donations accepted.

Saturday Evening
6:00pm the Peggy Lynch Poetry Competition Awards

7:00pm Featured Poets

Evening Features include:

MC, Thom the World Poet
Steve Brooks, Austin, Texas Folkmusician
CC Milam, Lubbock, Texas
Robert McMahon, the Birdman of Australia Phillip Abbott
Chuck Taylor, San Antonio
Edgar Pace, Austin, Texas
Hippie Rick, Ft. Worth
Peggy Lynch, San Antonio
The Warrior Poet, Austin, Texas
Paula Held, Austin, Texas
Tony Blisard,Cowboy Poet from Temple Texas
Connie Williams, Director of Forrest Fest
Erik the Orchestra, Albuquerque, New Mexico
John Levacy, Lubbock, Texas

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