Middle of The Mitt Music Festival - American Cancer Society Check Presentation 11-17-14
11/17/2014 5:00:00 PM - Soaring Eagle Casino

The rock and roll genre is no stranger to giving back to the community and the SECR Marketing Department and SECR Table Games proved that with a sizable donation to the American Cancer Society.

“This morning we presented The American Cancer Society with a check for $9,503.50 and it for such a great cause,” Advertising & Public Relations Manager Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort Kristina Griffus informs.  “The check was on behalf of the proceeds donated by Brent Jackson of Mad Turtle Productions and Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort from the 5th Annual Middle of The Mitt Music Festival held back on September 20.”

Pat Wyble and Catina Lowe accepted the check from Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort Table Games Director Brent Jackson on behalf of the American Cancer Society and the Relay for Life of Jackson County.

“I would personally like to thank Jesse Brennan of Everleaf Music who helped me run the Middle of the Mitt.  I enjoy Mad Turtle Productions and the festival is my baby. It all started when I was approaching 40 and wanted to have a big shindig to commemorate the occasion,” Jackson said.  “Since I had been in bands off and on over the years I wanted to put on a show.  I asked a friend who had experience with festivals to lend a hand. Before, during and after the show we had a lot of people who liked what we done.”

Jackson loved the whole experience and in speaking with his Mom and Dad, they said it reminded them of the time they would gather with other ‘Nishnobs at “horseshoe bend” to sing songs, play guitar and have good times.

“They are getting up in age and when they spoke of those times I could see they revered those cherished memories,” Jackson recalls.  “I knew what we were doing was a good thing so Middle of the Mitt Music Festival was born.”

The festival was 5th Annual Middle of the Mitt but it was in actuality their seventh production.

“Two of them were birthdays (the 11/11/11 festival was one of them) and the other was my original party”.

Joseph V. Sowmick, Hon.PhD

Tribal Observer – Photojournalist

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