LET'S GET TOGETHER FOR COOLY ROCKS ON
November 1: Cooly Rocks On president Steve Archdeacon has today launched a renewed initiative to bring together Gold Coast-Tweed Heads business owners and accommodation houses for Australia's "hottest" Rock ‘N Roll Nostalgia Festival.
Cooly Rocks On is the new name for the Festival set down for the Coolangatta-Tweed Heads region from June 3-13 next year.
Archdeacon, the owner of the DBAR Café, joined three other local businesses in a show of community strength in the countdown to next year's popular winter festival.
Rainbow Bay Realty principal and director Tim Fydler, Outrigger Twin Towns Resort General Manager Niel Mason and the Manager of Pyramid Holiday Park, Tweed Heads Gwenda Byrne joined Mr Archdeacon to confirm their support for the festival.
"We believe the 2011 Cooly Rocks On festival will be one of the most exciting nostalgia festivals ever staged in the region," Mr Archdeacon has said in an open letter to all local businesses.
"It's a cultural celebration of everything that was cool about the 1950s and 1960s and everything that's hot about 2011.
"Our plans are to make Cooly Rocks On the biggest and best nostalgia festival in Australia and the response so far as we put together next year's event has been very encouraging indeed.
"But what we need is the support of everyone in the region to make our festival rock and to make it the huge success we all know it can be.
"Today we launch a new initiative - "Cooly Rocks On - Together!"
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Mr Archdeacon revealed Cooly Rocks On already has a record 107 stall holders show an expression of interest and the Classic Car Committee believes it can attract over 1000 Classic Cars and Hot Rods.
He says the reaction in the market place has been most positive, with local business owners keen to back the festival.
"We have met with many of the local community groups and prospective sponsors and all of them are telling us one thing - there is a place for everyone in the Cooly Rocks On family," said Mr Archdeacon.
"They want to be part of it and they want to ensure the immediate and future success of Cooly Rocks On for our region.
"If it is going to be bigger and better then everyone has to play their part and get involved.
"Over the next two weeks, representatives of the Cooly Rocks On committee will be knocking on doors seeking support for their festival.
"We will be appealing to all business owners to pledge their financial support. We want everyone to be a part owner of Cooly Rocks On.
"Already we have had accommodation houses, big and small, come forward to be part of the team and we want everyone to join them and make sure Cooly will Rock On in June 2011 will be a huge success."