ST JOE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL JDW 8-23

Banjos, mandolins, and fiddles will be the instruments of choice at the first annual Bluegrass Battles Hunger

Music Festival on Saturday, September 25th at Phil Welch Stadium in St. Joseph, Missouri.The bluegrass music

festival is a benefit for northwest Missouri’s Second Harvest Community Food Bank which serves 19 counties

throughout northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas.The Bluegrass Battles Hunger Music Festival begins at 1:00 pm at Phil Welch Stadium in St. Joseph, Missouri.The stage will be set up in center-field at Phil Welch stadium, with patrons viewing from the outfield area.The festival will be held rain or shine.Ticket prices: VIP – $30 includes admission, premium seating, t-shirt and VIP only concessions. General

admission tickets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of the festival. Advance tickets can be purchased at

HyVee and the Second Harvest Community Food Bank.A $5.00 per ticket discount is available with a nonperishable

food donation to the Second Harvest Community Food Bank. Children 10 and under get in free

with an accompanying adult.Details about the festival, bands, tickets, pie-baking contest and family memorial tributes can be found online

at: www.bluegrassbattleshunger.com

The Bluegrass Battles Hunger committee is also presenting the first annual Home-made Fruit Pie Baking

Contest. The competition is open to anyone with a special talent for baking fruit pies and it is free to enter.

Four identical pies are requested for each entry received and accepted. One of the pies will be judged at an

advertised competition at the Southside Fall Festival in St. Joseph.The remaining pies will be sold or auctioned

off and the winner will receive special recognition at the Bluegrass Battles Hunger Music Festival.