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YES Fest 2011

YES Fest is a FREE all-day event featuring musical performances, drama, dance, poetry and artwork by student and community artists, thespians, musicians, and dancers for audiences of all ages.

Special guest appearances by Bay Area performers on two stages: Contemporary old-time country band The Shots, The County Boys, Ellie Cope, Irish Step Dancers, Julie Steier, and Gary Millar, Bing Shearer, Calvin Clark, Brody Hogle, Gianni Pompili, Cambria Blake, and more.

 The free festival will feature galleries of painting, multi-media, and ceramic artworks created by the students in visual arts Yes Foundation programs, which are provided to kindergarten through eighth grade students from Brookside, Manor, Wade Thomas, and White Hill schools.

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Performances by students from all sites and age groups will be held all day. The festival will also feature guest artists and businesses from the Marin community who will offer hands on art activities such as cartooning, silk painting, film-making, and recycled glass art.

Delicious food offerings will be available from Taco Janes, organic ice cream from Straus Family Creamery, as well as other refreshments.

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YES Fest is sponsored by the YES Foundation, a non-profit volunteer organization that funds art, music, theater, poetry, assemblies, library books and more to every child in the Ross Valley School District.

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