SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2008
POST-RACE DAY FESTIVITIES
We Make it EASY in Hartford
- with Fantastic Finishers Feast!
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE RACE IN BUSHNELL PARK
(View Map of Bushnell Park layout on Race Day)
Runners and volunteers may enjoy “some of the best post race food in North America” (The Ultimate Guide to Marathons).
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Enjoy a delicious pumpkin specialty and organic cranberry couscous salad with nuts both from Whole Foods Market; piping hot vegetable pasta soup; homemade macaroni and cheese with Cabot cheese made by the Center for Culinary Arts; Dole bananas; Stonyfield Farms yogurt; and homemade apple crisp. |
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And, there's lots more great food. Want to know more yummy details? Menu for Post Race Party.
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Visit dozens of exhibitors. Sample great beer from Harpoon Brewery -
our official 2008 beer sponsor - in the Beer Garden.
Great music and family entertainment complete the post race festivities. |
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Fabulous Food Sponsors
| POST RACE PARTY - ENTERTAINMENT - 11 AM- 1 PM |
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The ING Hartford Marathon Post Race Party will feature the Connecticut-based band Kick. Since its formation in 1996, the band has seen its popularity soar at a speed and to a level they had never imagined. Kick has earned a reputation as “easily the top show band in New England...live, they actually look, perform, and sound better than a lot of the original artists” (Music News Express) and “the most professional modern rock cover band I’ve ever seen. Masterful.” (Hartford Advocate). In national auditions, MTV called them “Perfect” while VH1 concurred they are “an outstanding band." |
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Today, Kick is widely regarded as one of the best-sounding, most sonically accurate, professional, and visually entertaining rockshows in North America. Keeping true to their booking edict of: "wherever there's a good time to be had and great people to rock," the diversity of the band's repertoire has enabled them to perform at such prestigious venues as Gillette Stadium, Toad’s Place, the Pickle Barrel Music Hall, Yale Bowl, Riverfront Amphitheater, Lowe Auditorium, and UConn's Rentschler Stadium, where they perform before every Huskies football game. From Neil Diamond to Metallica, Kick guarantees their audience members will go home having heard at least one song they like.
The band is currently on tour sponsored by Coors Light, Hype Energy Drink, Connecticut Lottery, UConn Huskies football, and 96.5-TIC FM. Visit the website kickband.com |
| POST RACE BLOCK PARTY - FAMILY FUN FEST |
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The ING Hartford Marathon has partnered with the Wolf Pack for an opening night celebratiaon on October 11th. A Family Fun Fest will be held outside the XL Center on Trumbull Street from 5-7 pm. Admission to the Family Fun Fest is free.
At the Family Fun Fest, fans of all ages can rock out to the sounds of a live band, get in a winter-celebration mode by watching an ice-carving demonstration, get their war paint on for the game by visiting a face-painter, and indulge in the laugh-out-loud fun of a number of different inflatables |
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The Wolf Pack is holding a "Everyone's A Kid Night" for the season-opening game against the Springfield Falcons - all fans can purchase tickets for that game at the kids' price of just $10 each. Tickets go on sale 9/19 at all Ticketmaster locations. Read the complete Press Release. |
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Stop by the newly opened Black Bear Saloon on 187 Allyn Street, Hartford for their post-race special. The celebration starts at 8 pm to close. Visit Black Bear's website. |