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Autumnfest Steering Committee P.O Box 574 Woonsocket, RI 02895

 

Autumnfest Parade Wants Entertainment

 

Woonsocket – The 40th Autumnfest Parade can use you.  The Autumnfest Parade Committee is looking to add more entertainment this year.  All professional DJ’s and bands, here is your chance to get in the parade and promote your DJ business or band.

 

If you have DJ service that entertains at weddings, anniversaries, birthday parties, or any social gathering, then grab your equipment, get a flatbed or even a pick-up truck and enter the parade.  You can play any music you like and talk to the crowd as you promote your business to everyone along the parade route and the people listening on the radio and watching the parade on cable and streaming video online.  Remember, to have signs on your vehicle telling everyone who you are.  This is your chance to get the crowd pumped up.

 

All those that are musically inclined, get your band on a flatbed and join the parade.  Imagine your band playing your music to all those people as the flatbed rolls down the parade route.  Be sure to have signs made so people know who you are.

 

Floats of all kinds are also welcomed in the parade.

 

If you would like to take advantage of this amazing opportunity and be in the 40th Autumnfest Parade on Monday October 8, 2018, then contact Autumnfest Parade Coordinator Lorraine Cloutier at 401-762-9072 or download the Special Entry Form from the Autumnfest website (www.autumnfest.org) click on Parade.

 

For more information on the upcoming festival, please visit the website at www.autumnfest.org or our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/RIautumnfest.

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Autumnfest is a Family-Friendly Celebration now entering its 40th year.  Autumnfest is held Every Columbus Day weekend (Oct. 6, 7 & 8) at World War II Veterans Memorial Park off Social Street in Woonsocket, RI.  Please visit our website at www.autumnfest.org and like us on Facebook(www.facebook.com/RIAutumnfest)

 

 

    

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