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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1997
EVENTS • ENTERTAINMENT • ISSUES • MUSIC • ART
jayhawk music fest
Thousands expected for Sunday's concert
By Tom Winter
Kansan Staff Writer
Rain or shine, the gates will open for the Jayhawk Music Festival at 10 a.m. Sunday.
The Festival, now in its third year, is an all-day outdoor concert at Clinton Lake that showcases national and local talent.
Frogpond will kick off the Festival at noon. There will be seven major acts performing on the main stage. The headlining act this year will be Cracker, beginning its set at 6:45 p.m. and scheduled to play until 8 p.m.
Jacki Becker, event coordinator for Pipeline Production, is helping to organize the event.
"We'd done fests before but never out there," Becker said. "We send money offers to hundreds and hundreds of bands and wait for replies to find out who will play."
The first year of the festival, Pipeline Production had 311 as its headlining act.
"It was a total fluke that they became huge," she said. "311 wasn't that big at the time they played."
Thomas Carrigan, Jayhawk Music Fest chairman, Chapman junior, said preparations began early.
"We usually start preparing for this about a year ahead of time," he said.
Also there will be an "Electronic Circus" tent which is part of the "Electronic Highway" tour. The tent will feature club music.
"it's like a rave under a big top." Carrigan said.
Becker said Pipeline Production was targeting a specific, yet ultra-hip demographic.
"We are trying to highlight a type of music which is becoming really popular," she said. "This is going to be the next big thing."
A few of the nationally recognized electronic bands that will be playing at the festival are the Crystal Method and Fluke. Fluke played with Filter on the "Spawn" soundtrack, Carrigan said.
In the past two years, the festival has raised over $60,000 for local and national charities. This year's proceeds will go to The Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence, Headstart Community Children's Center, the Ballard Community Center and Women's Transitional Care Services (WTCS).
Although there will be parking available at Clinton Lake, a free shuttle will be provided for those wanting to park their cars at Free State High School, located on the corner of 6th Street and Wakarusa Drive. There are about 1,000 available parking spaces.
"The shuttle will start at 10 a.m. and run continuously until the lot is full," Carrigan said.
Tickets for the festival are on sale for $17.50 at all Ticketmaster outlets, the Granada, the Bottleneck and the SUA box office.
The first year, an estimated 10,000 people attended the Festival. Last year attendance dropped to under 10,000. This year they hope to have at least 12,000.
Jayhawk Music Fest
■ When: Sunday September 7
■ Where: Clinton Lake State Park
■ How much: Tickets cost $17.50
■ Gates open: 11:00 am
Festival bands
Cracker
Cake
Matchbox 20
Helmet
Freddy Jones Band
Local H
Frogond
Photos courtesy: Pipeline Productions
music fest
Festival Parking
parking
M. D. Bradshaw / KANSAN
Shuttle will run every 20 minutes
Park-and-ride system lessens festival traffic
Mary Corcoran
mcorcoran@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
To the chagir of many festival-goers of a year ago, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office ticketed many cars illegally parked along the main campground entrance road.
Last year, the Jayhawk Music Festival offered KU students great music, good company, beautiful weather and expensive parking tickets.
Hopefully, with a new park-and-ride system, the expensive parking tickets will become a thing of the past.
A cooperation between Jayhawk Music Festival coordinators, the Lawrence Bus Company and Freestate High School will allow festival goers to park legally and ride a shuttle bus to the park.
"The park and ride system will certainly be more convenient," said Chris Gleis, owner of the Lawrence Bus Company. "We will continue to shuttle constantly during the day, about every 20 minutes."
Ogle said the time between bus rides would depend on how efficiently the drivers loaded people on
and off the bus.
Ogle was privately contracted to offer a shuttle bus by Jayhawk Music Festival coordinator Thomas Carrington. The shuttle will run from the Freestate High School parking lot to the festival, Ogle said.
Carrington also requested that bus riders obey certain rules.
People riding the buses will not be allowed to carry coolers or beverages to the festival, Ogle said. Riders will be allowed to carry one unopened plastic bottle of water into the park.
Ogle said he thought about 4,000 people would ride the shuttle buses. The shuttle ride will have no charge, he said.
Clinton State Park officials said people parking inside the park would have to pay $5. Last year parking cost $10. Organizers did not explain the decrease.
"We have four parking lots people can use," said Todd Nuss, part-time Clinton Park ranger, said. "One is right next to the event, the others are a little farther away."
The Lawrence radio station,
KLZR, the Lazer, has been advertising
the park and ride system. Nuss
said he thought the advertisement
would help to get the word out.
"Hopefully people will use it and that will elevate many of the problems. If many people car pool and use the shuttle it will be a benefit to them," he said.
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