Sponsorship Information

Read below or get a printable PDF of the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival Sponsor Packet.

What we’re doing…

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The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance, founded in 2003, is a spring and fall music, dance and arts festival that takes place on behalf of the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center – a local non-profit that hosts year-round community arts programming for the Triangle area. The dream of creating a non-profit music and arts festival has been realized by hard work and the support of a community who values interactive cultural experience and creative expression.

From local country acts to world-class West African musicians the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival creates a co-mingling of artistic forms in one beautiful place. The holistic model of programming means that children can paint and play while fiddle workshops are hosted on the front porch of the farm office. Local food vendors offer varied cuisines while Zydeco and Salsa dance workshops engage visitors under the dance tent. Join us to grow and expand the vision of Shakori Hills.

This year we are reaching out to like-minded organizations that embody a philosophical framework of community engagement and local economy. We invite you to partner with us through sponsorship to support the dynamic creative force that is Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival. Each festival draws approximately eight thousand attendees and growth is steady each year. We print 20,000 full-color, 26-page programs that are distributed throughout the Triangle area as well as across North Carolina.

Sponsorship of the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival and thus its sister organization, the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center, offers an opportunity for your business or organization to align itself with this mission while also supporting other area non-profits. The promotional opportunity for your product or service is not only far-reaching but targets populations committed to using their resources locally.

Join Shakori Hills as we enter an expanded phase of development and community partnership!

How to become a Festival Sponsor…

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Please email the following information to shakorihills@grassrootsfest.org by July 15th (program ad deadline). If you are interested in being a sponsor, but the first deadline is past, you may not be able to partake in all of the promotional benefits, but feel free to get in touch.

Your company name
Your level of sponsorship
Your company website address
A vector (pdf or eps) file of your logo. If this is not possible, a TIF will work.

Please let us know where to send your invoice OR send your sponsorship payment to:

Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival Sponsorship Committee
1439 Henderson Tanyard Road
Pittsboro, NC 27312

If you become a sponsor, you can mail us (or drop by) any literature (cards, flyers, freebies, etc) that you would like displayed in the Sponsor Tent. We need to have it at least a week before the festival.

Festival sponsors will receive sponsor packets, including tickets and t-shirts two weeks before the festival begins.

We would love to discuss your participation, and if you have any questions, feel free to email shakorihills@grassrootsfest.org or call 919-542-8142.

NOTE: Donations of goods at these values may qualify as sponsorship.

Fall 2016 Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance Sponsorship Levels:

SPOTLIGHT SINGER $20,000 Year-Long Sponsor ($10,000 Single Festival)

You get to be in the spotlight! A singer is the poet and voice of the band. You speak to our hearts. (Pictured: Maddy Walsh of The Blind Spots)

10 4-Day Passes (5 per Festival Sponsored) to be used at any GrassRoots Festival—Shakori Hills, Finger Lakes or Virginia Key—including meals and backstage access! (Value $1,540/$770)
Opportunity for Sponsor Remarks before the headliner of your choice!
10 All-Access Performer/Staff 4-day Festival Passes (5 per Festival Sponsored) to Shakori Hills Festivals including meals and back stage access (Value: $1,540/$770)
Full-Page Advertisement in the Festival Program (each Festival Sponsored) (Value: $600/$1200)

As well as all other recognition listed at the levels below!

Kora – $10,000 Year-Long Sponsor ($5000 Single Festival)

21 strings and a large Calabash (West African gourd) come together to form the Kora, a harp-lute that has thrilled at Shakori and the world around. This instrument has been played on the Shakori Hills stages by musicians from Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea. (Pictured: Diali & Sidya Cissokho of Kaira Ba)

8 All-Access Performer/Staff 4-day Festival Passes (4 per Festival Sponsored) including meals and backstage access (Value: $1,232/$616)
16 Complimentary Shakori Hills GrassRoots T-shirts (8 per Festival Sponsored)
Special Thank You presented before host band Donna the Buffalo!
Half-Page Advertisement in the Festival Program (each Festival Sponsored) (Value: $375/$750)
Personal Company Banner to be displayed on the Festival grounds

As well as all other recognition listed at the levels below!

Trombone – $5000 Year-Long Sponsor ($2500 Single Festival)

This telescoping brass instrument lights up the horn section in jazz and ska bands alike. (Pictured: Alicia Aubin of Big Mean Sound Machine)

16 Any-Day Festival Passes (8 per Festival Sponsored) (Value: $592/$296)
8 Complimentary Shakori Hills GrassRoots T-shirts (4 per Festival Sponsored)
Daily Thank You announcements throughout the Festival
Quarter-Page Ad in the Festival Program (each Festival Sponsored) (Value: $220/$440)
Logo listed on Giggler (our smartphone schedule that tracks festival happenings)
Feature in our Sponsor Email Blast leading up to each Festival

As well as all other recognition listed at the levels below!

Pedal Steel – $2000 Year-Long Sponsor ($1,000 Single Festival)

A mainstay of gospel and soul traditions the pedal steel guitar resonates throughout American folk traditions with its powerful sound.

8 Any-Day Festival Passes (4 per Festival Sponsored) (Value: $296/$148)
4 Complimentary Shakori Hills GrassRoots T-shirts (2 per Festival Sponsored)
2 Thank You announcements during the Festival

As well as all other recognition listed at the levels below!

Accordion – $1000 Year-Long Sponsor ($500 Single Festival)

Colloquially called the “squeezebox”, the accordion is used in genres from Brazilian pop music to Zydeco! (Pictured: Preston Frank)

Your Company Logo and company description on the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Sponsor website
Your Company Logo printed on the Sponsorship Page of the Festival Program (each Festival Sponsored)
4 Any-Day Festival Passes (2 per Festival Sponsored) (Value: $148/$74)
2 Complimentary Shakori Hills GrassRoots T-shirts (1 per Festival Sponsored)
One Thank You announcement at the Festival

As well as all other recognition listed at the level below!

Washboard – $500 Year-Long Sponsor ($250 Single Festival)

Washboards are often seen in Cajun and creole music. Easy to find and throw in for campsite jams for an added rhythm section. (Pictured: Tara Nevins of Donna the Buffalo)

Your Company Logo on the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Sponsor website
Your Company Logo on the Sponsor Banner prominently displayed on the Festival grounds
Social Media Thank You posts with your Logo and website links (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) leading up to each Festival
Recognition as a Shakori Hills Community Arts Center Supporter in our Annual Report and Literature

*Our limited edition sponsor t-shirts will be the specific festival’s t-shirt and will have sponsor recognition on the back. Any sponsor is welcome to purchase additional sponsor shirts for $15, just let us know when you submit your information.