The 70th, 71st, and 72nd National Folk Festivals in Butte, Montana, 2008-2010, are produced in partnership by the National Council for the Traditional Arts, Mainstreet Uptown Butte and Butte-Silver Bow County in cooperation with Butte Convention and Visitors Bureau, Gold West Country, Grant-Kohrs National Historic Site and the National Park Service, Imagine Butte and Travel Montana of the Montana Department of Commerce.
Produced in partnership by:
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Founding Partners

Contributing Sponsor
Shuttle Sponsor

Corporate Supporters
Mile High Beverages

Media Partners

Official Festival Hotel

(Friends of the Folk Festival
(Over the Top Supporters)
andrea mccormick |
$100 |
MARIAN JENSEN |
$50 |
JAMES O'BRIEN |
$50 |
PARK PLAZA HOTEL |
$250 |
KEMBLE & Flanagan, CPAs, PC |
$1,100 |
McLeod Realtors |
$500 |
ellen donahueIn memory of Angelina Costello and Mark Joseph Donahue |
$50 |
TOM GRAFF |
$25 |
JEFFERSON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION |
$1,000 |
FINLEN HOTeL |
$1,000 |
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MONTANA |
$700 |
ARC ELECTRIC |
$1,500 |
sandy walsh |
$50 |
MAX & EVA MAXWELL |
$50 |
Butte Teachers Union local 332 |
$100 |
bev murray |
$25 |
james dorr johnson |
$500 |
harrington surgical |
$200 |
gertrude downey |
$100 |
Shirley Groff |
$100 |
Larry & Cindy Farrar |
$500 |
Charlie & kristi O'Leary |
$50 |
Butte Center for the Performing Arts |
$200 |
Colleen Boyle |
$50 |
Cheri Taylor |
$5 |
Second Edition Books |
$15 |
Deborah Mueller |
$200 |
Marie & George Kadillak |
$5 |
Sarah Wyss |
$50 |
Metals Sports Bar & Grill |
$250 |
Perkins Restaurant |
$250 |
Bookey Consulting |
$500 |
Janie Payne |
$50 |
If you would like to contribute to the National Folk Festival, send your tax-deductible contribution to National Folk Festival, c/o Mainstreet Uptown Butte, P.O. Box 696, Butte, MT 59703.
If you would like to know more about the benefits of stage sponsorship or other major contributions beyond the tax benefits (all contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law), we would be happy to describe the benefits for your business that can come from high visibility in front of the National Folk Festival's audience of thousands in Montana next summer.
Call 406/497-6464 and ask about being a sponsor of the 71st National Folk Festival in Butte July 10-12, 2009, or contact us at the link below.
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