Fort Collins Colorado

Ticket Prices / Hours Thursday, August 25, 2011 7:30PM – 10PM Held at the Budweiser Events Center

* Opening Festival Performance with The High Kings * $30.00 – Reserved Floor Seating (Only 500 Available) * $25.00 – Seated General Admission * All tickets sold through ComcastTIX

Friday, August 26, 2011 4PM – 10PM

Friday August 26th – Ticketed Event

* 5:00PM – Join us in our tribute to Paul McCartney & The Beatles as we sing-a-long to some of their top songs including “Hey Jude” * 6:30PM – The Young Dubliners * 8:30PM – Special Musical Guests: The Tossers (One Of The Top Irish Punk Rock Bands)

* Major Concert with The Tossers on the Festival Main Stage * All tickets sold through Festival’s PayPal site * For further information: o Email: info@rockymountainirishfestival.com

Still breaking ground in their 20th year, New Belgium Brewing has dipped into the world of publishing with Tour de Fat; Sights, Sounds, Feelings, Flavors, a coffee table art book celebrating the first eleven years of the Colorado brewer’s traveling, philanthropic bike festival. The limited edition hard cover book chronicles the trials and triumphs of building an event from the ground up. From the early years when the whole show fit in the back of a pickup truck to 2010’s hometown Tour de Far with more than 15,000 attendees, the story is a first-person narrative from the cyclists, carnies, performers and car swappers who lived to tell the tale.

“Having seen this thing grow up from the get-go,” said New Belgium Spokes Model, Bryan Simpson, “the book truly reflects and celebrates the blood, sweat and perseverance it took to build this event into a powerful philanthropic engine and a bike advocacy building block.”

The project stems from a long-standing collaboration with Fort Collins-based independent publisher, Wolverine Farm Publishing. WFP staff and volunteers have traveled with the tour for the last six years extolling the virtues of literature married to activism and art. Publisher Todd Simmons published and edited the book.

“Tour de Fat rises above every other summer festival in its commitment to artistic integrity, philanthropic protest, and complete worship of the bicycle, and this book is merely an extension of that—a wildly flung tail of the last eleven years,” said Simmons.

This season Tour de Fat is expected to surpass $2 million raised for bike advocacy since its inception. With stops in 13 cities throughout the summer and fall, the Tour raises money for non-profits thru beer sales and challenges one driver from every city to give up their car for a year in exchange for a bicycle. Every event starts with a costumed bike parade followed by a mix of music, vaudeville and general spectacle topped off with the actual swapping of a car for bike and a celebratory dance party.

The book is available online at or at Tour de Fat events throughout the year.

Since their inception as a doodle on a hotel notepad in the late 90′s, Loralie’s fun designs have become well known in the creative industries of fabric, embroidery and papercraft. Each design is personally created by Loralie Harris with love in the hope that they will touch the heart and give a smile. Collections featuring people groups such as nurses, teachers, golfers and sewing ladies head the list with quirky cats and dogs adding their whimsical charm to the fun assortment of products which are sold online and at shows nationwide. Don’t miss the fun at the Loralie Designs booth at the RMQF in August!

Helen is an internationally known ribbon designer, author and teacher. Helen has written four books on ribbon work and has produced a DVD and appeared on the Carol Duvall Show (HGTV) for five years.

Silk Ribbon Rose Instructor: Helen Gibb, Helen Gibb Ribbonwork FRIDAY, August 19, 2011, 11:30 am -12:30 pm SATURDAY, August 20, 2011, 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm SUNDAY, August 21, 2011, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Class fee: $10 Kit fee: $15 Using 2 ½” wide silk ribbons you will learn to make a stunning rose with leaves. Helen guarantees you’ll finish the project in class. Bring scissors. Kit fee will be paid directly to the instructor before class.

We are pleased to announce that we will be having a Silent Auction at the 2011 Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival next month.

We will have lots of items that you can bid on. All proceeds will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Look for the Silent Auction Booth at the Show and place your bids.

Products are courtesy of the 2011 RMQF vendors as well as other manufacturers in the sewing and quilting industries.

Project Linus is comprised of hundreds of local chapters and thousands of volunteers across the United States. Each volunteer and local chapter all work together to help achieve their mission which is to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created by volunteer “blanketeers.” Together they have distributed over three million blankets to children in need since their inception in 1995. Please visit the Project Linus Booth at the RMQF in Booth 43 in the McKee Building. Discover how you can volunteer and help in the mission. They will also be hosting a book signing for “Working for Peanuts, The Project Linus Story” by Karen Loucks Rinedollar (available at Amazon).

“See Along The Rogue” Quilt Display & “Icicles” Quilt Display at RMQF 2011 “Along the Rogue” Quilt Display “Along the Rogue” quilt display consists of 19 quilts by separate artists, each depicting a different Rogue river scene. The quilts will all be hung together to create a 39 food display. The Rogue River runs from Crater Lake to Gold Beach in Oregon. This display has been traveling to quilt shows across the country and we are happy to be able to display it at our 4th annual Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival.

The “Icicles” display is from the Road to California quilt conference. Fiber artists from across the country were asked to create a dimensional icicle from six to ten feet in length by approximately about 18 inches at its widest point. They were asked to artistic vision of quilted icicles in blue, white and silver. The exhibit is called “California

New Belgium Brewing (www.newbelgium.com) today announced two new releases in its Lips of Faith series, “Kick” and “Clutch.” Both are collaboration beers suitably named in honor of their collaborative counterparts and each offers something fine and rare in the Lips of Faith tradition. Lips of Faith beers are New Belgium’s more esoteric creations, delivering palate-elevating brews that are only available for a limited time.

New Belgium’s Founder and CEO, Kim Jordan, and Seattle-based Elysian Brewing Founder and Head Brewer, Dick Cantwell, are in cahoots again with Kick, a ruby-hued, slightly sour ale. The rich and tart pumpkin cranberry ale is blended with wood-aged beer to deliver a uniquely complex harvest season sour. Kick’s ABV is 8.5%. Elysian and New Belgium have a history of celebrated creations with past “collabeerations,” including eight beers in the Trip Series.

Clutch is the result of synchronicity with the Maryland-based hard rock band with the same name. The sour stout has a pronounced bass line of dark chocolate, coffee and black malts that bridge the sourness of the dark wood ale for a fluid riff. Clutch’s ABV is 9%.

“Clutch is one of my favorite bands and this collaboration derives from the perfect storm of random happenings,” said New Belgium brewer Eric Salazar. “The band made a stop in Ft. Collins to tour our brewery, but we were closed. That day, I happened to run into them at a Ft. Collins restaurant and we started talking. I offered them a tour and the next thing you know, we’ve produced a soulful beer together.”

Kick and Clutch are available August through October. Pricing varies by market.

To find New Belgium beers in your area, you can use the New Belgium Libation Location tool: http://www.newbelgium.com/beer.aspx. You can also follow New Belgium on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/newbelgium

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