9 More Days Til the May Market

Wow! Time sure has flown this month. I can't believe we're already in the countdown until the May Market. 9 more days and it'll be here!!!

We have plenty in store for all of the folks who grace us with their welcomed presence. =) We have some awesome new vendors for you this month, as well as some of your Indie Market favorites. We even have a Caricature Artist coming out... a first for the Market. We're totally excited about all of the wonderful and talented vendors we have, so please be sure to come out and show them your support.

Our local musicians for this month are:

Serendipity The eclectic Jazz/Folk duo of Alison Perkins & Jeremy Wood. They will be playing from 5:30pm - 7:00pm.

Rob Disner from TV Yellow An Indie Rock group who's members are Rob Disner, Kevin Cox, Ron Moore & Curt Meinhold. You'll remember Rob as the singer/guitarist from last months market. He (or they) will play from 7:00pm - 9:00pm.


If you would like to help us get posters up and pass out cards, please contact us at firstfridaymarkets@gmail.com. They're at the printer now and should be ready by the end of the week. Mandy and I cover the downtown Greensboro area pretty well, but if we can get some volunteers to put them up in other locations around Greensboro, Kernersville, Burlington, High Point, Browns Summit, etc. we would really appreciate it.

If you're on our Vendor Mailing List, you'll be receiving the June Vendor Application by email around the 1st of May. If you're just too excited about participating and can't wait that long, the App is already up here on the blog. Just click on the Vendor Application tab at the top of the page.

We'll see ya next week!

Looking for Vendors!

We still have a few spaces available for the May 7th Indie Market. If you haven't submitted an application yet, there's still time (deadline is April 15th)!

A Few of our Many Pics from the April Market

Thank you!

Chris and I want to thank each and every one of our vendors for helping us make the April Market a huge success! We hope each of you were just as successful individually as we were as a whole. Everything about Friday night was awesome and we couldn't be more pleased. We also need to thank the crowd - turnout totally blew us away, especially since it was a holiday weekend. We knew it would be good, but it really surpassed our expectations.

We're already working on the planning for the May market! If you haven't filled out an application to be a vendor, please do it asap. The application deadline for the May 7th market is April 15th (tax day - you can't forget!). If you've already filled out an application, you can just submit your payment and send us an e-mail to FirstFridayMarkets@gmail.com and let us know you want to participate.

We hope May is even bigger than April - and hopefully a little bit cooler! See you then!

Looking for Vendors!

Our first Indie Market of the year is only 2 days away (well, 3 depending on how you look at it)! We are going to have wonderful weather and we have awesome vendors lined up for your shopping pleasure!

To make May's First Friday Indie Market even more amazing (if that's possible), we're already gathering names. If you are interested in being a vendor, please fill out the application and submit your payment. If you're not ready to commit to being a vendor, or if you can't participate in the May First Friday Indie Market, please fill out the Vendor Mailing list form to the left so we can keep you in the loop about all of the Indie Market happenings.

Hope to see everyone on Friday April 2nd!!

5 More Days!

I'm sitting here as all of these thunderstorms and tornado warnings go by, trying to think happy thoughts about the upcoming First Friday Indie Market. The weather is supposed to be absolutely perfect... 80 degrees and full of sunshine and blue skies. How much more perfect can it get!

For our first Market of the year, we got a little nostalgic about the design of our poster. We decided to use the same image from our very first Market (courtesy of Kill Taupe). Meet Gary... the cutest little Cyclops knitter I've ever seen.

If you go into the Downtown area of Greensboro, you'll see his cuteness plastered all over windows and inside many stores and restaurants. We're proud of Gary and just thrilled to have him represent the April Indie Market!

The April Market application is closed and we have all of the wonderful vendor that we need to fill our lot up. If you're interested in being a vendor in May, please feel free to contact us at FirstFridayMarkets@gmail.com or fill out the mailing list form to the left.

We'll see you all on Friday!!!

Chris

We're Back!!!

The First Friday Indie Markets in Downtown Greensboro are back for 2010. Our first Market will take place on Friday, April 2nd from 4pm -9pm at our usual lot... corner of South Elm & MLK.

Not to throw any names out at you (cuz we wouldn't want to brag or anything), but a few of the almost 30 awesome vendors we'll have in April are:

Yummy Goodness Bake Shoppe
Barehanded Press
Anna Mae Breads
The Gnome Shack
Jordan Grace Owens Art & Illustration
Wendy's Sweet Shop

Of course Mandy (of Purple Hook) and myself (Ikow Designs) will be set up as well.

It's been a big undertaking for us to keep the Markets going, but we feel it's really worth the effort. We love the atmosphere, vendors and all of the wonderful customers that come out to help us support local handmade.

Tell your friends, family, neighbors, coworkers... basically everyone you come across about us. Help us start off the April Market with a BANG!!!

Hope to see you out there!