March 9, 2015
New Festival Coming to the Pekin Riverfront!
Soda Pop Tour Festival
June 13th, 2015 * Pekin, Illinois
The Soda Pop Tour is a craft soda tasting festival that promises to take your soda popin’ taste buds to an altogether new level of bliss. The Pekin downtown riverfront will be transformed into a festival showcasing over 100 unique and vintage craft sodas. But wait – this is more than just a soda tasting festival. It is a complete family festival bringing back Americana with a modern day twist. Drink up the nostalgia and enjoy great family entertainment, delicious food, cool games for the kids at our inflatable playground and so much more. Also appearing will be the Coca-Cola mobile museum.
An event created by local entertainment producer Jay Goldberg, the Soda Pop Tour is a traveling festival that will be landing in cities across the Midwest. “I am very excited to make Pekin one of the official stops for our Soda Pop Tour.” Says Jay Goldberg of Jay Goldberg Events & Entertainment. “This will be one more amazing event for downtown Pekin and will bring people from all over. The economic impact for tourism dollars should be a nice addition.”
The Soda Pop Tour Festival will showcase the flavors of sodas produced by many of the nations unique craft soda manufacturers. Sodas available will include specialties brands such as Green River, Jelly Belly, Captain Eli, Goose Island and a variety of flavors such as Grape, root beer, cream, orange, ginger, cherry and more! All sodas featured are all made with natural sugars – no artificial sweeteners!
Presented by Jay Goldberg Events & Entertainment in association with Pekin Tourism, City of Pekin, Illinois. Pekin Tourism will be receiving a percentage of all incomes and will be in need of many volunteers to help with the soda sampling stations. As this is a non-alcoholic family festival, volunteers can be 16 years of age and older. For information on how you or your organization can be a part of the Soda Pop Tour and help, call Leigh Ann Brown, City of Pekin Economic Development/Tourism Coordinator at labrown@ci.pekin.il.us
Admission to the Soda Pop Tour Festival is FREE for all ages.. Soda samples will be available for purchase and tasting will begin at 10:00am and be available until 8pm.
For more information, check out : www.sodapoptour.us If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities and/or general information contact jay@sodapoptour.us.
For vendor information and food concession opportunities contact Annette Begner at Annette@sodapoptour.us
Produced by Jay Goldberg Events & Entertainment and Plan Ahead Events.
