Blue Collar BBQ and Arts Festival

Tree Frog Music Festival started in 1996 on the Shattuck Campus and ended in 2012 when sponsorships dried up due to a recession.

The day was picture perfect for the ninth annual Blue Collar BBQ and Arts Festival in downtown Faribault on Saturday (8/12). Every year this event, hosted by the Paradise Center for the Arts, gets better and better and this year's music line-up did not disappoint...

Today is the big day (8/12), it's finally here, the ninth annual Blue Collar BBQ and Arts Festival in downtown Faribault. As of this writing the day is going to be perfect for this yearly music filled event, mostly sunny skies and a high right around 77 degrees during the day and partly cloudy skies and cooling off to 55 tonight...

The Blue Collar BBQ and Arts Festival hosted by the Paradise Center for the Arts is the summer’s premiere downtown Faribault music event that I look forward to each year. Spend your day listening to 12 hours of live music from a great line-up of bands starting at 11AM Saturday, August 12...

I had a busy but fun Saturday this past weekend. On Saturday morning I was out at The Ride at Faribault Harley-Davidson. Once the all the participants had departed, I had to quickly pack up my gear and head to Owatonna for an afternoon of bowling and video games as we celebrated my grandson's birthday...

The Blue Collar BBQ and Arts Festival hosted by the Paradise Center for the Arts is the summer's premiere downtown music event. Live music from a great line-up of bands from 11AM to 11PM tomorrow includes Prairie Dog Fight Club, the Shasta Kings, the Swamp Kings, Moses Oakland, Mark Allen and the Key West Rejects and the Headliner Chad Johnson and the 8th Street Band...

The Rice County Fair starts Tuesday night at 5PM in Faribault. That exciting, whirlwind week of carnival rides, games, food and shows that feature Enduro Auto Races, Great Frontier Bull Riding, the NTPA Truck and Tractor Pull, the Demolition Derby and new to the grandstand line-up this year is the Battle of the Bands at 7PM on Wednesday, July 20...

Summer is finally here and the Rice County Fair is right around the corner. That fun week of carnival rides, games, food and shows that comes to town July 19-24 and features Enduro Auto Races, Great Frontier Bull Riding, the NTPA Truck and Tractor Pull, the Demolition Derby and new this year, the Battle of the Bands...

As I stated in an earlier post, Power 96 was proud to be a part of two big events held in Faribault on Saturday, Aug. 8. The first one was the aforementioned Ride for Hospice hosted by 1st United Bank in Faribault at Faribault Harley-Davidson...

We're getting closer to the Blue Collar BBQ and Arts Festival, on the 200 and 300 blocks of downtown Faribault, this Saturday from 11AM to 11PM. With 12 hours of music, I've been playing tracks from some of the artists that will be entertaining event-goers throughout the day...