Frequently Asked Questions

• When? The 2024 Evart FunFest will be held July 18 - 20, 2024.
• Where? Evart Michigan, at the Osceola County Fairgrounds  at 101 Recreation Ave., Evart, MI 49631
  
  

• The entire fairground & a bit of the surrounding area: Funfest Fairgrounds Map
• A map of just the workshop & buildings: Funfest Workshop & Building Map

Cost?

• One-day passes are $10 per person. Three-day festival passes are $20 per person. Children 12 and under are admitted free.
• Your festival pass grants you admission to all events happening during the festival, including evening stage shows, instructional workshops, the Friday night dance, and all vendor areas.
• The festival pass does NOT include camping. Camping fees must be paid separately, to the Osceola County Fairgrounds. (More details on camping below.)
• If you purchase a three-day pass for $20, and then pay for camping for four nights, your basic cost to attend the festival will be $120.
  
  

• Festival passes are sold on-site.
• Attendees pay upon arrival.
• You may pay with cash at the entrance gates to the fairgrounds.
• If you prefer to pay by credit card or by check, you may purchase your festival passes in the Fairgrounds Office. (Building #3 on the Fairgrounds map.)
• You will be given a festival ribbon, which you must wear on your person.
• Please place the ribbon so that it is easily visible to our volunteers who staff the entrance gates.
  
  

How Do I Register For Workshops? 

• There is no registration for workshops.
• You may attend as many as you desire.
• Everything is included.
• All our instructors are volunteers, and they are generous with their time and talent.
  
  

Which Workshop Should I Choose?

• Pre-beginner: has never played.
• Beginner 1: Able to tune, and beginning to play.
• Beginner 2: Able to play tunes and knows a few chords.
• Intermediate: Plays many tunes from memory. Beginning to arrange and embellish.
• Advanced: Confident embellishing, solid understanding of chords.
  
  

• B.C. Pizza - 7th Street, Evart.  Pizza, subs, salad, pasta.  Lunch buffet.
• Chase Creek Smokehouse - Chase, MI, approximately 25 minutes west of Evart, on U.S. 10. 
• Jerry’s College of Knowledge - Main Street, Evart.  Burgers.  Great coffee.
• Lamplighter Cafe - 7th Street, Evart.  Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
• Mishler’s Drive In - 7th Street, Evart.  Burgers, sandwiches, root beer, & ice cream.
• Pompeii’s Pizza - 7th Street, Evart.  Pizza, subs, calzones, stromboli, salad, soup.
• Sixth & Main - Main Street, Evart.  Appetizers, burgers, sandwiches, soup, wraps, pasta, fish, pizza.
  
  

• There are multiple food and beverage vendors on site. 
• On-site food vendors are contracted by the Fairgrounds. 
• We will update this list as we become aware of the vendors that have agreed to be at the FunFest.
  • Evart Lion’s Club
  • Olive Branch
    
    

• Foster's Market is right next to the fairgrounds, within walking distance.

• What we can tell you is that, in general, a campsite is intended for a single family, which usually means one camper, or one tent.
• A second, small tent for children is usually allowed.
• One car or truck can be parked at the campsite.
• If you have a second vehicle that vehicle needs to be parked in the parking area immediately to the east of the Fairgrounds.
  
  

Bathrooms & Showers?

• There are three facilities with showers, sinks, and toilets. They are clean and well-maintained. There may be peak periods where one must wait for a shower, but in general waiting is not an issue.
  

Laundry Facilities?

• There are no onsite laundry facilities.
• A US 10 Laundry is located at 505 W. 7th Street, about ¼ of a mile east of the Fairgrounds.
  
  

Group Camping Areas?

• Yes. Call the Fairgrounds to check on the availability of group camping areas.  231-734-5481
  
  

Campfires?

• Campfires are not allowed.
  

Quiet Hours?

• There are no quiet hours.
• Please understand that this is a players festival, and music is played at all hours of the day and night, including in the camping areas. 
• You may wake up to music, and you may fall asleep to music.  Please do not expect to have total quiet.
• Bring your earplugs for sleeping.
  
  

Pets?

• Pets are allowed. 
• Once the festival begins on Thursday pets must be leashed and remain at the campsite.  
  
  

Alcohol and Drugs?

• We work hard to make sure this is a family friendly festival. 
• Drugs and alcohol are not permitted on the Fairgrounds.
  
  

I have another Camping Question

• For all additional questions about camping policy, visit:
  http://www.osceolacountyfairgrounds.com/camping/camping.html
  
  

What instruments are allowed during FunFest? (per the ODPC Festival Manual)

• All non-electric stringed instruments, including, but not limited to: dulcimers, guitars, basses, banjos, fiddles, mandolins, and harps.
• All non-electric keyboard instruments, including but not limited to: accordions, concertinas, and acoustic pianos.  Only acoustic pianos owned and controlled by the ODPC will be permitted on the grounds.
• Simple wind instruments that do not have mechanical keys, including but not limited to: recorders, penny whistles, 3-hole pipes, fifes, bamboo flutes, Pan pipes, and ceramic flutes.
• Miscellaneous musical instruments, including but not limited to: harmonicas, jaw harps, bagpipes, and bodhrans.

What instruments are not allowed during FunFest? (per the ODPC Festival Manual)

• All instruments that require electricity to operate.  Examples: guitars, basses, keyboards which require electricity or batteries; amplifiers and public address systems, other than ODPC equipment used during stage shows or approved for use at a workshop.
• All band brass instruments. Examples: trumpets, trombones, tubas, French horns, baritones, bugles, euphoniums.
• All woodwind instruments. Examples, saxophones, oboes, bassoons, clarinets, flutes, English horns, piccolos.

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