Wrap up summer in Albany August 27-29, 2010 at the community’s signature event, the ATI Wah Chang Northwest Art & Air Festival at Timber-Linn Memorial Park and Albany Municipal Airport. This is the Festival’s 11th year, showcasing the free Festival’s most popular events:
· More than six dozen Northwest artists display and sell their wares. Art includes pottery, jewelry, metalwork, wood craft, paintings, fused glass, toys, tapestries, and photography.
· The hot-air balloon Night Glow on Friday night with Curtis Salgado in concert. This is Salgado’s third Night Glow in Albany, making of the Festival’s most popular events an even bigger crowd-pleaser.
· Hot-air balloons launch at dawn each morning. Rides are available for a fee. Contact the Albany Visitors Association at 541-928-0911.
· Live music and dance performances, featuring professional and amateur talent from the mid-Willamette Valley.
· Tie-dye, building birdhouses, photo frames, make windsocks, create with clay and experience other hands-on art in the locally-owned Red Robin and Carino’s Children’s Art Village.
· America’s 40th anniversary tour on the Oregon Amphitheater stage on Saturday
· Two car shows Saturday and Sunday, presented by Lassen Chevrolet Toyota.
· Free Young Eagles airplane flights for kids ages 8-17. More than 300 kids took these flights in 2008, the most Young Eagles flights at any one time west of the Mississippi.
· Northwest wines and microbrews and international foods.
More than 40,000 attended the 2009 Northwest Art & Air Festival, with more than 15,000 at the Friday balloon Night Glow. Find out what makes this weekend special. Join us!
The Northwest Art & Air Festival is presented by Albany Parks & Recreation and the Albany Visitors Association. ATI Wah Chang is the title sponsor for the 11th year.
