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AgapeFest at Parade

Greetings from AgapeFest HQ … As one of three faculty/staff advisors to our trusty AF student team, I hope to be able to shine a light on the AgapeFest planning activity throughout the year.

For the last few weeks most of the discussion has centered around one of the most important things to you all … AF09 bands. (Director Alyssa will reveal the outcome of those discussions as soon as we have confirmed the acts!) The team uses both formal (remember the “Guitar Hero” survey you filled out last year?? ) and informal (when a zillion teenagers stand in line for Hawk Nelson, we tend to take notice) research to put together an initial list of acts. That list gets whittled down based on availability (i.e. if your favorite bands would stop getting married on AgapeFest weekend, it would help! ), pricing, travel schedule, etc. to the point that we have a tentative lineup in place. Next up are band negotiations with booking agents.

At the moment Alyssa and our booking team are waiting on confirmation for our four main headliners. I’m thinking a little friendly competition to guess our headliners might be in the works in the near future … anyone up for free AgapeFest blankets and tickets???

Signing off for now, but keep your eye out for “Behind the Scenes” posts all year long from members of the AF09 team … Robyn (the marketing chick)

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Tagged: agapefest, Behind the Scenes, planning, student cabinet

Behind the Scenes!

Hey guys. I’ve been working hard on some new features here at AgapeFest.com. One of the biggest ones is something you’ll see in the left sidebar. We’re calling it “Behind the Scenes.” Over the course of this festival year, you’ll see posts by our staff and cabinet giving you a look into what we do here at AgapeFest HQ to get this festival ready for you.

Take a gander and leave some comments. We’re in the process of getting the lineup together, so if you have recommendations, let us know!

And. I must say this. To keep up with the latest news (including behind-the-scenes), click that green “subscribe” button at the bottom of the page. You can hook up to our RSS feed and stay on top of all of the info about to flood this site.

P.S. Early bird tickets will be on sale soon… stay tuned.

joel |Permalink |8 Comments
Tagged: Behind the Scenes, News, staff, Tickets

Let Me Introduce Myself…

Let me introduce myself. My name is Alyssa Marshall and I’m a senior at Greenville College. I just wanted to introduce myself, let you know the exciting things going on and let you know we really want your input on this years ins and outs.

Right now I am actually at a conference in Nashville with the CFA (Christian Festival Association) where about 40 of the nations top directors get together and discuss festival and encourage each other in our ministry to all of you!

I have to say, I have been so pumped by this conference. I’ve always wondered with the business and stress of it all if it’s hard to start to loose the ministry of it but, man, being in this room with these people they totally have ministry as their #1 priority. It has encouraged me to participate with them and pray for them as they try to make the best decisions as far as bands and speakers go to encourage you, your friends, your parents, your youth pastors and mentors all over the country.

As far as our festival goes I wanted to let you all know that we are seriously considering having a seminar speaker at our fest other than our fantastic ministry through Interlinc. We really want to know who you all think will be a great ministry to the teens and the parents/youth pastors as well. So please give us your feed back!

Also, check out our website continually and invite us to be your friend on Myspace and Facebook. We’d love to keep you updated on what we’re doing and we’d love to continue to see how we can minister to you. Plus we love seeing your pictures, where your lives are going and how we can encourage you all to the best of our ability.

I’ll keep posting as we go along to let you know how things are going and where we’re at. Let me just say our potential line-up looks pretty hot!

God bless you all, keep on rockin!

Alyssa Marshall
Agapefest 2009 Director
317 E. College Ave
CPO 31
Greenville, IL 62246

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Zoomin’ right along!

Hey everybody!

Just to introduce myself… I’m Rachel, the AgapeFest 2009 Media/PR Director.  My job essentially is to get all of YOU as excited and ready for the festival as we are!

We’ve been throwing out some considerations for a few pretty amazing artists, as well as working on contracts for others, so keep your fingers crossed for your favorite!  Chances are, they’ve graced our list.  I don’t want to be the one to give away too much, but know that we are excited to have bands that you all will love and can bless you in return.  We want to serve Jesus Christ through serving all of you!

I’ll keep you all posted as exciting news begins to unfold!  Be on the look out for 2009 posters, fliers, and info.

Get pumped!!

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First Cabinet Meeting

We just had our first cabinet meeting to discuss potential headliners. Got some good plans and a good team this year!

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Tagged: bands, Behind the Scenes, headliners