Make Plans to Attend Market Street Festival May 1&2 in Columbus, Mississippi

Anyone near the greater Memphis/Tupelo area should know about the Market Street Festival in Columbus, MS. If not...learn something! It is a fabulous festival filled with food, music, and entertainment for all ages. Of course, this year's festival will certainly be that much better because I will be making a triumphant return.



Info about the fest can be found at http://www.marketstreetfestival.com/index

• School and media appearances (WCBI TV in Columbus) are happening throughout the area on Friday May 1, 2009
• Shows on the Market Street Children's Stage are on Saturday May 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM

There will be plenty of souvenir Andy Martello Trading Cards available for all in attendance and I plan on having a great time bringing my act back to Mississippi (the only state I ever learned how to spell properly).

Please pass along the word and tell anyone you know in that neck of the woods to come out and see a great show.

New Year...New Card

BEHOLD!
The 2009 Andy Martello
Collector's Card!


I know you're going to want one of these babies!

Your collection MAY have fallen behind.

Drop me a line if you need one of these,
the 2008, or even the 2007 cards.

So Long Oktoberfest. Hello Pumpkin Fest!

Well, the Carol Stream Oktoberfest was a smashing success! OK, MY part of it was a smashing success. I heard that the attendance was bown a bit from last year for the beer & brats. BUT...this is only the second year for the darned thing. You've got to expect a little fluctuation in the results when building the traditions.

All I know is that at 3:00 PM there was NOBODY THERE. By 3:15 PM, thre were 200 people in front of my stage waiting for a show! I gave away a lot of souvenir cards and made some good contacts and friends along the way. I can't complain one bit. Plus, there was BEER afterwards for me to enjoy and that makes everything better!


Tomorrow has me working in Castaldo Park for the Woodridge Park District and then off to my favorite gig of this or any other year, the St. Anne Pumpkin Festival!
tried to find a link to give you for the Pumpkin Fest...but this town is SO small the best link I could find was the one in my own website where I list them as a good reference. That's small-town America!

Anyway, this will be my 13th or 14th consecutive year performing at the festival and every year I am happy as a clam to be there. They just make me feel like family and it is so damned charming a place I can't believe more people don't go check it out.