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Between the Bridges
Wakeboard Festival
August 10, 11, 12
Chattanooga Riverfront
$22 for three days
$15 for one day

Today at 2 pm, the gates open for this year’s Between the Bridges Festival. This wakeboard and skateboard festival and competition started last year as a way to raise funds for the Joseph Grubbs Memorial Fund. Joseph Grubbs passed away in August of 2005. He was the bassist for Chattanooga’s own Up with the Joneses. The Joseph Grubbs Memorial Fund helps the people of Chattanooga through the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga.

The Between the Bridges Festival mission statement is:

Between the Bridges will introduce Chattanoogas unique 21st Century Waterfront to the wakeboarding community as one of the premier locales for pro and grassroots competitions. By utilizing the cities resources we will unite the boater community in Chattanooga for water sports; establish a working relationship with the City of Chattanooga and local businesses, promote wakeboarding in the city, and provide a venue for local retailers to market their products.

And the Chattanooga market for the water event is ripe:

Chattanooga offers many activities for extreme sports enthusiasts. Driving thirty minutes in any way from downtown leads a rock climber to great climbing, mountain bikers to trails, paddlers to the white water, but the drive to still water is very short. Chattanooga has yet to exploit its water resources to the wakeboarding industry and our event will gather wakeboarders from Nashville, Knoxville, Atlanta, and Orlando.

There will be a skateboard competition starting today at 3 p.m. and the wakeboard competition begins tomorrow at 8 a.m.

The festival isn’t all about the water or boards. There will be music starting at 3 pm today with Infinite Orange.

You can buy your $22 three day wrist band at the entrance on Chestnut Street. ($15 will get you a one day pass).

Friday Music
3 p.m.
Infinite Orange
4 p.m.
Liquid Jungle
5 p.m.
The Bohannons
6 p.m.
Downstream
7 p.m.
Toneharm
9 p.m.
Downstream

Saturday Music
12 p.m.
Hahn
1 p.m.
Coral Castles
2 p.m.
The Flynts
3 p.m.
Leticia Wolf
4 p.m.
El Toro Deblanco
5 p.m.
The Gun Hands
7 p.m.
The Drew Emmitt Band
9 p.m.
Dumpstaphunk

Sunday Music
12 p.m.
Voodoocracka
1 p.m.
The Nim Nims
2 p.m.
Dog House Riley
3 p.m.
Roger and Dang
4 p.m.
Dead Confederate
5 p.m.
Milele Roots
7 p.m.
Up with the Joneses

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