Call for Entries!  2012 Ovation! Awards (for 2011 events)

We are now accepting Ovation Award Nominations for this year’s events and want to encourage you to take a few minutes and nominate your event for at least one of the categories. 

There is a great deal of prestige to bring home an Ovation Award that can then be leveraged to increase sponsorship, garner more media, and acquire more community support.  Everyone wants to associate with a winner.  Community funds are easier to provide to an ‘award winning festival’ than to the same ol’ event, year after year.  If your festival is under the umbrella of a city or county, those politicians always like to hear they got behind the winning horse.  Sponsors can take a little pride in knowing they were part of the support of an event that was recognized across the state as one of the best.  It gives you an opportunity to blow your own horn during the ‘off-season’ when you announce in your community that you won.  

Download the applicatio here:  Ovation! Award Application