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Christopher Staub
Ontario Barn Festival             
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Vibrant Labor Day Weekend Festival Celebrates Live Bluegrass and Roots Music, Promotes Solar Energy

Ontario, New York, September 5, 2009 – An 11 acre Christmas tree and fruit farm with bucolic views of 19th century red barns is the backdrop for this all-day live music event located about twelve miles east of Rochester. The Ontario Barn Festival combines live bluegrass and roots music with outdoor BBQ, arts & crafts, apple picking and other activities. The festival is nonprofit, promoting solar energy.

“The Ontario Barn Festival is the only music festival in the state that promotes the use of solar energy,"  said Chris Schaefer of Solar and Wind FX of Canandaigua, New York. The festival aims to facilitate networking between solar vendors, builders and most importantly would-be consumers interested in incorporating solar energy into their homes.

The scheduled bands include the Atkinson Family Band, well known in New York state and national bluegrass circles, along with York Pennsylvania’s Waitin’ on a Train and others. The show contains an ample dose of bluegrass for the most serious of fans. Yet the Ontario Barn Festival avoids being pegged as purely bluegrass by bringing forth dashes of eclecticism with youthful electric ensembles and the funk / klezmer / pop of Rochester’s Hypnotic Clambake.  

The Ontario Barn Festival will take place on Saturday September 5th from 11 am to 7 pm at 513 Whitney Road in Ontario, New York. For more information, including directions, admission, sponsorship and band details, see the festival’s website:

www.OntarioBarnFestival.com             

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