Friends of Ballard Park in Newport RI

prizes awarded for best band!
... rock to reggae * mozart to metal * blues to blue grass ...

Enter your band in the 3rd Annual Molly Finn Battle of the Bands!
Form and $15 entry fee due to Friends of Ballard Park, 580 Thames Street #442, Newport RI 02840 by June 1, 2009.
Click here to download a Band Sign Up Form.

sponsored by:
Lou & Nina (Bestoso) Poanessa

The Molly Finn Battle of the Bands will be held in the quarry meadow of Ballard Park located off of Hazard Road in Newport. It is an all age event and musicians of all genres and ages are invited to enter their bands. Preference will be given to high school/young adult, non professional bands. Bands will be scheduled to play from 2 to 7:00 pm on Saturday July 19th. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the competition.

Sponsorships and program advertising will help defray costs associated with the event. You can download forms by clicking here:



3rd ANNUAL MOLLY FINN BATTLE OF THE BANDS July 18, 2009 (Rain Date: July 19) * 2:00 to 8:00 pm
		prizes awarded for best band! *... rock to reggae mozart to metal * blues to blue grass ...** Enter your band in the 3rd Annual Molly Finn Battle of the Bands! Form and $15 entry fee due to Friends of Ballard Park, 580 Thames Street #442, Newport RI 02840 by June 1, 2009. Click here to download a Band Sign Up Form.

	about MOLLY In the Fall of 2005 Molly Finn began working with Friends of Ballard Park to develop a Youth Board with Rogers High School students. A recent high school graduate who grew up in Newport, Molly was well known and connected at the high school. The students decided the first event they wanted to organize would be a Battle of the Bands featuring youth bands of various musical genres. Molly was particularly enthused about the event and recruited several of her musician friends to enter their bands. Sadly, in June 2006 the Free Spirit, a boat Molly was aboard as part of a transatlantic voyage, was lost at sea. Her young friends requested Friends of Ballard Park host Battle of the Bands in Molly’s memory and volunteered to help organize the event which is open to area musicians young and young at heart. WATCH A VIDEO FROM THE 2nd ANNUAL MOLLY FINN BATTLE OF THE BANDS
		sponsored by: Lou & Nina (Bestoso) Poanessa
		The Molly Finn Battle of the Bands will be held in the quarry meadow of Ballard Park located off of Hazard Road in Newport. It is an all age event and musicians of all genres and ages are invited to enter their bands. Preference will be given to high school/young adult, non professional bands. Bands will be scheduled to play from 2 to 7:00 pm on Saturday July 19th. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the competition. Sponsorships and program advertising will help defray costs associated with the event. You can download forms by clicking here:
			SPONSORSHIP FORM PROGRAM ADVERTISING FORM Call 619.3377 for more information.