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Our latest & greatest news:

Tickets are now on sale at www.CincyBeerfest.com for our Labor Day fireworks party and our October 9 event Hops On The Ohio !!! 

Both events are on the Purple People Bridge, America's largest pedestrian-only bridge.

And they are selling fast...

Thanks to a well known local Kentucky event coordinator who will remain unnamed, the Kentucky Alcohol Bureau has taken exception with us having "open bar".  This unnamed person claims it's possible for someone to drink more than $40 in alcohol at our cost.  For the record, we have no plans to serve anyone who is obviously intoxicated.  And no one can drink $40 worth of our alcohol at our cost in 4 hours without being obviously intoxicated.

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Our best wishes go out to Juanita & Philip Paul.  Juanita was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday, July 21 with a sudden infection.  As the nurses were telling Philip she had passed away, the doctors were able to revive and stabilize her.  She is doing much better, is back home and thanks everyone for their overwhelming support.  The photo below of Juanita & Philip was taken by long time friend and great guitar player Diamond Jim Dews.

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The dates for the next two Columbus Beerfests have been set !!!  Mark your calendar for Saturday, January 15 and Friday & Saturday, May 20 & 21, 2011.  We now are the exclusive beer festival of the Columbus Convention Center !!!   www.ColumbusBeerfest.com will be updated with all the info as soon as we can.

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Click here to see a really interesting article on how music helps "tone the brain,...  leading to a slew of potential benefits, including improved learning and understanding of language" in children.

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The Columbus fund paid for Sean Carney and two others to teach 25 students as part of the Blues For A Cure benefit for cancer research.  Sean's band performed with Li'l Charlie Baty (of the Nightcats) and John Nemeth & his band at the main event at Northstar Golf Club.  All the details are at www.BluesForACure.com.  They do great winter and summer events, all for a great cause.

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Our friends at Festivals Unlimited helped us to expand to do the Columbus Beerfest on Memorial Day weekend, May 28 & 29 at the Columbus Convention Center, where we made $3600. 90% of that stays in a fund for Columbus presentations and 10% comes to Cincinnati. The website with all the details is www.ColumbusBeerfest.com and you can join our Facebook page now at:  www.facebook.com/pages/Columbus-OH/Columbus-Beer-Festivals/230874809733

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 On January 30, 2010, the 3rd annual Winter Cincy Beerfest at The Hyatt Regency in downtown Cincinnati was officially our production.  The event was managed by Festivals Unlimited, the same great team as the past two years in Covington, but as our outsourced event management.  And we made $6,000 for in-school presentations !!!

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 If all goes well with the Hulsizer Family parachute auction on November 6, 2010, we will be endowed with a $6,000,000 fund to pay for in-school music presentations in the Cincinnati, Coumbus, Dayton and Springfield, Ohio inner city public schools !!!  That's right... $6,000,000 for 120,000 students in several hundred schools...  The auction is at Goldberg Auctions in Beverly Hills.