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Helena, Mont-The National Folk Festival, Montana this summer, so that the event, a mixture of music, dance and tradition across America “historic Big Sky Butte in the country.

The three-day festival sites game changes every three years. For the three last summer he was in Richmond, Va. The National Council for Traditional Arts has chosen Butte more than 22 other cities, the bid to host the multicultural event for the next three summers.

Appointments for this year’s festival 11-13 July. The 24 acts, which is seven scenes, Washington is also Wylie & the Wild West, a group of Western music with Yahoo! Jodler Wylie Gustafson, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas of Louisiana, Alex Meisner Polka Band of Pennsylvania and New York’s Legal Yunakof Together spectacle of music Bulgarian marriage.

There is no charge for access to the festival, which continuous performances, participatory, dance, children, ethnic foods and crafts on display.

The main stage in Butte, an amphitheatre of 10000 seats in an old mine left the court of the peak period of the city as a world leader in the copper industry.

The festival is centered in Uptown Butte, a picturesque region with a National Historic Landmark District, villas, Victorian-style houses, pensions, former miners and 100 chalets - up to 200 feet framework of mines that were used to help workers and mines.

Many Date of buildings of the 19th century, whose 34 rooms Copper King Mansion to 219 St. W. granite, built in 1888 for mining magnate William Andrews Clark, one of the richest men of his time.

Tucked along the Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains, Butte years, was known as the “Richest Hill on Earth”, because the city of wealth. Today, the mining of copper on a smaller volume and Tourism grows, reinforced’s located between Butte Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Glacier on the west coast of the entrance is 270 km north of the city. West Yellowstone Park and its purpose is approximately 160 km south-east of Butte.

The Folk Festival is followed by Evel Knievel days, the city part of the annual 24-26 July celebrates the end of motorcycle and break-neck native son. Butte framework Ri is a celebration of Irish culture is for the August 8-10.

“We depend only people in and around all of them,” said George Everett Main Street Uptown Butte, a nonprofit organization working on arrangements Festival.

Private consumption, non-for-profit national arts traditional production Folk Festival in collaboration with host countries before.

Butte organizers hope to earn at least 100000 people at the event. Richmond drew a record 175000 visitors to the Festival in 2007.

Butte should also lead to an increase of $ 3 million is intended to cover three years and organizers say that the financial exigency is divided roughly one third of the expenses of the first year, maybe a little higher. Some $ 675,000 has already been addressed.

“It’s coming in pretty well,” said Everett, said he optimistic the goal can be achieved.

The cost includes the payment, accommodation and meals for performers, in collaboration with sound systems, platforms, layout, tents and insurance. Hundreds of volunteers work the event will be recruited.

Richmond, with a population of nearly 1 million in the city and its environs, compared to the Butte-Silver Bow County’s 32000, the first year had a budget of approximately $ 1.3 million. Butte’s Fund Raising progress seems comparable to Richmond, said Lisa Sims, worked at the Festival promotion.

“We had money each year and it was almost entirely a wash,” says Sims. “The festival is not the money maker. This is not the goal. ”

Sims, she said a stroke of light on water and Richmond left the city “with himself impressed because it was one of these volunteer efforts. Like other hosts past, Richmond is now an annual event modelled on the National Folk Festival, but under another banner.

Given the economic difficulties faced by some potential donors, the seven stages of the Festival Butte tend to be financed by supporters of sponsorship loan, a large fees for themselves, “said Barbara Miller Fund Raising of the Butte-commission .

“Many of our national societies, that we are in a situation very different, as they were six months ago,” said Miller.

A review of approximately $ 75000 would cover the sponsorship of major platforms and other steps are still available for sponsorship.

Support you hear about $ 50000 in this day of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, $ 50000 of the Butte-Silver Bow County and $ 40000 from the state budget of the tourism agency. SeaCast Corp., a Marysville, Washington, businesses preparation for opening a foundry in Butte, $ 25000 for First Peoples’ market place, a showcase for juried art of North American Indians. Power Corporation pay PPL Montana Golf-Cart shuttles carrying elderly or tired, and the Montana Historical Society is sponsoring an information booth.