First Ever "Lazy Daze Music Festival at the Trax" to Be Held in Winder, Georgia on August 18

The very first "Lazy Daze Music Festival at the Trax" will be held on Saturday, August 18, from noon until midnight in Winder, Georgia. The city is located in Barrow County and lies between Atlanta and Athens. The all-day free music festival will be held on the field between the Winder Picnic Pavilion and the Winder Community Center. Seven bands will perform, and concessionaires offering food and beverages will be present.

The first band, "Delorian," will perform from noon to 1 pm. This three-piece band has been featured at the popular music venue, "106 West," located on West Athens Street in Winder, and is currently recording its debut album.

From 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm, "Southfire," a Southern country music band also based in Winder, will perform. They are a crowd-pleaser that plays both country rock and traditional country classics.

"Richard Sherfey and All God's Children" will follow from 3 pm to 4 pm. This band hails from Athens and has been nominated for Best Country/Americana Band in the 2007 Flagpole Music Awards competition.

"The Marty Ford Band," which performs regularly at "Shuffles" on Hwy 8 in Winder, will perform from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. Country rock, as well as traditional country music favorites, is its musical genre.

From 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, "The Full House Band" will entertain with covers of classic rock and soul from the sixties and seventies. This energetic band is legendary to the area and always plays to large, enthusiastic crowds.

The winner named "Up and Coming Band" at the 2006 Flagpole Music Awards, and a nominee for the "2007 Flagpole Band of the Year Award," "The Empties," will play from 9 pm to 10 pm. Although most of the band members are from Colorado, they now call Athens, Georgia their home.

The final band to perform will be "Modern Skirts" who will wrap up the evening, playing from 10:30 pm to midnight. An Athens-based band that won "Band of the Year" and "Album of the Year" at the 2006 Flagpole Music Awards, "Modern Skirts" is also nominated for "2007 Flagpole Band of the Year." Their song, "Four More Years," is the theme song for a British television show.

The "Lazy Daze Music Festival at the Trax" is the brainchild of Leslie Ginn, Winder Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Ginn, along with her classmates in the Carl Vinson Institute of Government's Management Development Program at the University of Georgia, has organized the event as a class project. The purpose of their project is to determine whether Winder would benefit from an outdoor amphitheater, as well as whether a summer event series would attract out-of-town visitors to the northeast Georgia community.

Directions: From Atlanta, take I-85N to GA-316E to Highway 29E (through the towns of Dacula, Auburn, and Carl) to Winder, Georgia