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Corn Hill Arts Festival
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The ultimate guide to the 2022 festival season
If you want to survive in this jungle of festivals, you need a good guide. This is it.
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Mixed messaging confuses organizers about whether to hold events
With Park Avenue and Corn Hill festivals canceled for 2020, some say there are inconsistent and confusing messages on what is and isn’t safe.
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Corn Hill Arts Festival canceled due to COVID-19
For the second year in a row, the Corn Hill Arts Festival has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The F Word: Corn Hill can-can and Pentecostal caterwaulin’
It was a gorgeous day this past Saturday at the Corn Hill Arts Festival, as I made my way through the throng to catch some bands at the Gazebo Stage. Vanishing Sun was onstage challenging the real sun as it dappled the crowd beneath the shade. Lead singer Zahyia — dressed like a steampunk can-can girl — had the […]
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The best fest time of year
Inside our annual Festival Preview Guide, CITY rounds-up the dates and details of all of those festivals, which we hope will be useful in planning your summer
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Art and soul
The Corn Hill Arts Festival hits 50 August 1969: Astronauts from the Apollo 11 lunar landing have just returned home; The Beatles have just taken their famous “Abbey Road” cover photo; and the Woodstock Festival was held in Upstate New York. Farther northwest from Bethel, a group of neighbors — also artists — decide to […]
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Corn Hill Arts Festival releases 2017 poster
The Corn Hill Neighbors Association and ESL Federal Credit Union on Friday unveiled the 2017 Corn Hill Arts Festival poster created by artist Ryan Martin. For the 49th annual event’s poster design, Martin explained that he used a “broad color scheme” to reflect Rochester’s unique “energy and history.” The poster itself has an Impressionistic style, […]
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Concert Review: “Music at Corn Hill Arts Festival and Big Rib BBQ and Blues Fest”
All the original Ramones are dead and gabba gabba hey gone and yet Kanye still walks the earth. Who’s in charge here? So, I Mounted the two-wheeler and dodged the drizzle to hit the outside scene. The Corn Hill Arts Festival is such a cool event. As folks milled around buying lawn ornaments they didn’t […]
