Roots & Rhythm raffle is up and running

HONESDALE, PA — Tickets are now available for the Honesdale Roots & Rhythm Music & Arts Festival’s annual raffle, with only 5,000 tickets available. Revenue from raffle ticket sales is one of the major sources of funds that allow festival organizers to stage the free one-day event featuring national and international musical entertainers.

Tickets cost $5; and new this year, Roots & Rhythm is offering six tickets for $25.

This year’s prizes have an overall value of $8,000, and include a custom-built, hand-painted, Florance/George Guitar, valued at $5,500; a $1,000 music gift certificate, courtesy of Connections Magazine; a 26-inch Toshiba Flat-Panel LCD HD TV, valued at $700, courtesy of Music & Video Express; two Flex Tix Packages (14 tickets each) for the 2008 Wildflower Music Festival Season at Dorflinger, valued at $560 each; a Wayne County Arts Alliance “Hour Town” Guitar Clock, hand painted and designed by artist Jim Gaglione, valued at $300; a pair of three-day passes to the 2008 Pocono Blues Festival valued at $75; a pair of concert tickets to the 11th Annual Briggs Farm Blues Fest valued at $100; and a hand-crafted, quilted Roots & Rhythm Wall Hanging, courtesy of A Stitch in Time, valued at $150.

The festival will be held on Saturday, June 21, throughout downtown Honesdale and Central Park, from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The raffle drawing will be held from the Main Stage in Central Park at approximately 8:00 p.m. Ticket purchasers do not have to be present to win.

Locations at which tickets are available are A Stitch In Time, Corner of 10th & Main Streets, Honesdale; branches of The Dime Bank at 820 Church Street in Honesdale, 309 Main Avenue in Hawley and 1679 Cochecton Turnpike in Damascus; the Beach Lake Country Café, State Routes 1011 and 652, Beach Lake; The Country Auction, 2944 Lake Ariel Highway, Honesdale; the Himalayan Institute Café, Main Street, Honesdale; branches of The Honesdale National Bank at 733 Main Street in Honesdale, at the Route 6 Plaza in Honesdale, at 559 Hamlin Highway in Hamlin and at 2547 Route 6 in Hawley; the Greater Honesdale Partnership at 32 Commercial Street, Suite 3 in Honesdale; Mary Beth Bridals & Boutique, 849 Main Street, Honesdale; Misc. Essentials at Routes 6 and 590 at the IGA shopping center, Hawley; Nature’s Grace, 947 Main Street, Honesdale; Players Row, 221 Main Avenue, Hawley; The River Reporter, 93 Erie Street, Narrowsburg, NY; Trackside Grill, 734 Main Street, Honesdale; and the Wayne County Arts Alliance, 742 Main Street, Suite 201, Honesdale.

For more information visit HonesdaleRootsAndRhythm.com or call 570/253-5492.