AIWA To Sponsor Summer Series of Major Market Blues Events.Entertainment Editors MAHWAH, N.J.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--June 5, 2000 For a fourth consecutive year, AIWA AIWA Asian Immigrant Women Advocates AIWA Armenian International Women's Association AMERICA is sponsoring several major market blues events. The company announced today that it is once again a sponsor of the Chicago Blues Festival The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event that features four days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming. It is hosted by the City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Special Events, and always occurs in early June. , and title sponsor of the San Francisco Blues Festival Debuting in 1973, the San Francisco Blues Festival is the longest running blues festival in the United States.[1] Tom Mazzolini, the event's producer, founded the blues festival to educate the public about the history and evolution of the blues. and two blues summer concert series, one in New York and another in Boston. The Chicago Blues Festival is scheduled for June 8 - 11 in downtown Grant Park. The San Francisco Blues Festival, in its 28th year and the nation's oldest such event, will be held September 23 and 24 at Fort Mason. In New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Boston AIWA is sponsoring the AIWA New York and Boston Blues Cruise Concert Series that run all summer long, sailing out of New York and Boston Harbors. "AIWA is first and foremost in the business of sound. Music is the reason consumers buy AIWA products, so it's logical for the company's promotional activities to focus on music," explained Akio Imanishi, Senior Vice President of Marketing for AIWA AMERICA, INC. "The blues is enormously popular in America today, its popularity continues to grow, and these events feature some of the genre's most talented and popular artists." The Chicago Blues Festival is presented by the City of Chicago, is free to the public and attracts up to 600,000 people over its four-day run. AIWA is the exclusive sponsor of one of the three stages set up in the city's Grant Park in the heart of downtown Chicago. AIWA is the exclusive title sponsor of The San Francisco Blues Festival. The festival is held on the Great Meadow at Fort Mason and attracts up to 25,000 people. The AIWA New York and Boston Blues Cruise Concert Series present weekly live blues performances aboard tour boats from July through August, sailing out of South Street Seaport The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is usually considered a historical district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District. in New York, and Long Wharf in Boston. Headquartered in Mahwah, NJ, AIWA AMERICA, INC. is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of audio, video, car stereo, and multimedia products. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of AIWA CO., LTD LTD 1 Laron-type dwarfism 2 Leukotriene D 3 Long-term depression, see there 4. Long-term disability ., based in Tokyo, a $3 billion manufacturer and marketer of consumer and professional audio and video entertainment, computer, data storage, and communications products. |
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