Whiskey Flat Days - Kernville, CA

54th Annual Whiskey Flat Days, Kernville, CA. Feb 13-16, 2009. website and vendor application info. One of the most popular Festivals in all of Southern California. A short 3 hour drive from Los Angeles to the Lake Isabella recreation area and the quaint town of Kernville (50 miles east of Bakersfield on Hwy 178). Whiskey Flat is a leap back to the good ol' wild west days when the area was settled by gold miners, cattle ranchers and trappers. Join us when Kernville reverts to its old name "Whiskey Flat" for four nostalgic days of fun for the entire family. I quoted this from their website.
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This event is not listed in Craftmaster's yet. I guess that they get around 50,000 visitors for the event. They have a really nice parade and other festivities. Great show if you can survive the drive through the Kern River Valley and if you can find an inexpensive motel room. Lots of curves. It snowed here 4 years ago and they often do get some rain, but not much. Kind of cold in he morning.

Please check my review of this past year's Whiskey Flat Days. Quite a large number of vendors do this event. They come from L.A., Bay Area, Modesto area, Sacramento and other places. Good crowds.

Tyson Wells Sell a Rama

Haven't been able to enter any shows for here. We are currently selling at the Tyson Wells Sell a Rama in Arizona. Please be sure to read our daily log to see what's going on there:

http://www.starvingvendors.com/events_Tyson_Wells_Sellarama_2009.html

Heading to Tyson Wells

We will be at the Tyson Wells Sell-a-Rama from January 14-25 in space X-19 and at the Arts and Crafts Fair from Jan 28-Feb 14 in space PQ-3. Stop by and see us. This event is huge with over 900 vendors selling anything and everything. The show is visited by many snowbirds who come down in their RV's escaping the cold, damp, snowy, miserable weather.

Anyway, I probably will not be entering very many events on this website until I return home in mid-February. Internet access is difficult there and will not be on-line very much, mostly to just check my email. We are gaining new readers of this blog every day and I hope that everybody is enjoying reading about upcoming events, etc. You might want to check out Western Artists and Vendors where I cover many topics mostly pertaining to vendors and life on the road, etc.

Starving Vendors is another website and is gaining in popularity also. I have many reviews of shows that we have done and a lot more information. There are people who spend hours at a time just scouring over the website, as there is quite a bit to read and there are parts that are very entertaining. I will try to update the Tyson Wells Sell-a-Rama 2009 page and keep a running tab on what's happening over there in the Quartzsite area. There are several popular pages on the website, with the most popular being European Festivals. You might want to check out Your Daily Dose, which often tells about new pages, shows and life, in general. If you need a good laugh or two, then The Funny Farm might tickle your fancy.

If you are interested in shell necklaces, wrap-around skirts, shoulder bags, you might enjoy a visit to our main website, DandL CREATIONS. You won't be able to order anything though until we come back, as I have disabled payment methods because we can't ship until we get home.

Fantasy Fest - Key West, FL

FANTASY FEST, Key West, FL. October 23-November 1, 2009

Traditionally October has been a slow time for tourism in the Keys, but since its inception, Fantasy Fest® has continually boosted the economy by filling up hotel rooms and inundating local businesses, restaurants, and bars during this time period. The tremendous influx of visitors during the ten days of the festival sustains the local economy until the holiday season begins. Fantasy Fest is committed to extending the time that visitors stay by encouraging the creation of diverse events throughout the entire ten days. The opportunity to show off the imaginative and resourceful spirit that defines the Keys excites participants as well as the thousands that are drawn to the Keys.

World Buskers Festival

World Buskers Festival. January 22-February 1, 2009. Christchurch, New Zealand.

Organised pandemonium takes over Christchurch, New Zealand, as each January locals and visitors of all ages flock to open-air city malls, the city’s cultural precinct, and out to the seaside suburb of New Brighton to witness the world’s very best busker talent: the World Buskers Festival. Belly laughs, amazement, admiration, and surprise fill their lives for ten days every summer.

This is when artists, from countries as diverse as Portugal, UK, Japan, Australia, Italy, the USA wing their way to Christchurch, the largest city in the South Island, to provide over four-hundred free shows – although, as it’s their livelihood, optional donations are always welcome.
"The festival’s reputation for excellence and our great locations here in the heart of Christchurch’s cultural and heritage precinct are big drawcards for both international and domestic visitors, as well as for local residents, and it has become an icon event for the city" festival director Jodi Wright tells me. Such is the reputation of this event that, sitting in her office under the old university observatory, Jodi is inundated with pleas for an invitation from buskers around the world.

40th Annual Texas Rice Festival

Texas Rice Festival Vendor Application
Bar-B-Que Weekend September 25th & 26th
2009 Festival Dates Sep 30-Oct 4

The Texas Rice Festival is an annual harvest celebration held the first weekend of October honoring rice farming, which is a major economic activity in the region of Southeast Texas around the town of Winnie, Texas. The first Texas Rice Festival was held in downtown Winnie in 1969. The event is now a week-long event held in Winnie-Stowell park which has a permanent grandstand which was built for the event.

The festival includes a carnival, parades, livestock show, open horse show, BBQ cook off, nightly street dances, antique car show, cooking contest, pageants, karaoke, and features food made with rice and featuring the flavors of the Cajun culture which is strong in the area. Typical fare includes rice balls, gumbo, ettouffe, pistolettes, blooming onions, crab balls, boudain balls, funnell cakes and many other delicacies. The event is renowned for its outstanding cuisine.

Cloud's Jamboree

CLOUD'S 8th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ROCK, GEM & JEWELRY SHOW, JANUARY 2009.

This event runs from Jan 1-31 and is held at the Avi Casino, near Laughlin, NV. Free! Open to the Public. Outdoor show 9am to dusk Jan. 1 -31 Indoor show 10am - 6pm Jan 9 - 18

Cloud's Jamboree Website
vendor info: http://www.cloudsjamboree.com/res-form_outdoor.htm

I guess that this event is gaining in popularity since settling down here 7-8 years ago after leaving Quartzsite. I have not found very much info on this event, but do know that spaces are $400, but I do not know how large they are, etc. They have rooms over at the Avi Casino for $30 per night, but that's a lot to shell out for a month there. I guess that RV'v park in the Camping Area next door or you might be able to get selling spaces where you can bring your RV. I drove past this event a couple years ago and spaces looked kind of large and spread out.

I've visited Laughlin many times visiting several of the 7-8 casinos there. The Avi Casino is located several miles from there. Buffets are nothing to speak of, as the ones in Las Vegas have the ones in Laughlin beat (Bellagio, Paris, Mandalay Bay, Mirage, etc.) Every time I have visited the Laughlin area, I have experienced very strong, sustaining winds and I am not talking about itty-bitty breezes either. They get pretty strong and blow stuff all over the place.