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The prestigious Art Fair SourceBook has just released its 2008 national rankings, and MAIN ST. has come in at #3 in Fine Art and #6 in Fine Craft! The rankings are based on several factors, the most significant being the sales revenues of our participating artists. Over 1000 festivals are reviewed prior to establishing the rankings. Thank you, Fort Worth! Read the full release here.
The MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival (MAIN ST.), Fort Worth's most honored event, celebrates its 25th year on April 8 - 11, 2010. MAIN ST., presented by Coors Light and produced by Downtown Fort Worth Initiatives, Inc., hosts tens of thousands of people annually during the four-day visual arts, entertainment and cultural event. It showcases a nationally recognized fine art and fine craft juried art fair, live concerts, performance artists and street performers on the streets of downtown Fort Worth, stretching nine blocks on Main Street from the Tarrant County Courthouse to the Fort Worth Convention Center.
The prominence of Fort Worth's Old West history is evident on nearly every corner of the city. However, Fort Worth has grown by leaps and bounds in the area of arts and culture. And for the past 24 years, MAIN ST. has acted as one gateway to Fort Worth's cultural growth. Historically, "where the west began," MAIN ST. now escorts Fort Worth in thriving culture by welcoming and bringing together people from all sides of life-the cowboys and the artistic mavens.
The streets of downtown are filled with fascinating sights and sounds as more than 500 fine artists, dancers, performance artists, musicians, exhibitors and food vendors take part in the four-day celebration. Two hundred juried artists line the historic red bricks of Main Street weaving a diverse blend of texture and shape down the "magnificent mile" of visual art booths, performance stages and intriguing characters to create an explosion of color against the turn-of-the-century buildings and modern skyscrapers of downtown Fort Worth.
This year, MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival celebrates: 
- Quality fine art and fine contemporary craft of 200 juried artists from across the country
- Performing arts and music entertainment through more than 300 performances
- Culinary arts of the finest eateries, all on historic Main Street, from the Courthouse to the Fort Worth Convention Center.
- After hours showcase of the best in fine dining and entertainment in the safe and dazzling environment of downtown Fort Worth.
- More than 1,200 volunteers help run the free, four-day event, whose showcaseis a national juried fine art and fine craft fair, including ceramics, paintings, photography, woodcarvings, glassworks, jewelry and mixed-media compositions.
The Juried Fine Art
Regarded as one of the nation's premiere fine art and fine craft fairs, MAIN ST.is recognized by the Harris List as the number one show in Texas and in the top five for the Midwest region. Art Fair SourceBook recognizes MAIN ST. as among the Top 500 art festivals in the nation.Art enthusiasts can choose from a variety of creative and original works of art including sculpture, painting, photography, woodcarvings,glasswork, jewelry, fashion, multimedia compositions and more. Over $4 million worth of art is sold during the festival with prices ranging from $50 for quality reproductions to several thousand dollars for signed limited editions pieces or one-of-a-kind treasures.
The Entertainment Side of the Street
Check out our entire entertainment
schedule! MAIN ST. jams with live music daily on three stages at the 25th annual festival April 8-11. Follow the full concert line-up, including local bands and festival favorites, at www.mainstreetartsfest.org.
ROCK
Los Lonely Boys, the latest little band from Texas, brings Texican rock to MAIN ST. for the festival’s top-billed concert at 9 p.m. Saturday, April 10 on the Sundance Square Stage. Los Lonely Boys’ tour follows its latest release, 1969, which bridges generations with covers of 1969 hits like Santana's "Evil Ways” and The Beatles’ “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window.”
Leon Russell singled with tunes like “Lady Blue” and “Tightrope” but is best known as a session man whose work has spanned musical eras in collaboration with artists from Jerry Lee Lewis to The Rolling Stones. See him at 7 p.m. Friday, April 9 on the Green Mountain Energy Company Stage.
BLUES
Blues wunderkind Jonny Lang isn’t 30 but has spent half of his life onstage. Lang recorded his first independent album at age 14, just two years after he took up the guitar, and his multiplatinum release, Lie to Me, came at age 16. Hear Lang live at 9 p.m. Friday, April 9 on the Sundance Square Stage.
JAZZ
Jazz holds sway with a marquee performance by smooth jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum, an eight-time Grammy nominee and icon of the Caravan of Dreams era of live music downtown. See his opening night concert at 9 p.m. Thursday, April 8 on the Sundance Square Stage.
The Gourmet Fare - Festival FoodWhether it's crawfish, turkey legs, bratwurst, gourmet hamburgers, funnel cakes or ice cream, festival-goers have choices to satisfy almost any taste bud. Sodas, beer, margaritas and Texas wines compliment a wide variety of food selections in MAIN ST.'s Gourmet Fare.