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Upcoming Shows and Events FOR 2009

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Western Shows and Events

September 26-27, 2009 – Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival, Canby, OR Contact 503-628-1205 or whistlestop.farm@verizon.net or www.flockandfiberfestival.com

October 3, 2009 – Lambtown USA, Dixon, CA. Contact staff@lambtown.com or webmaster@lambtown.com or www.lambtown.com/index.html

October 3-4, 2009 – 26th Annual Wool Festival, Taos, NM. Contact questions@taoswoolfestival.org or 800-684-0340 or www.taoswoolfestival.org

October 9-11, 2009 – 13th Annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival, Wood River Valley, ID. Contact 208-720-0585 or maryacrofts@gmail.com

Midwestern Shows and Events

August 12-16, 2009 – Michigan Fiber Festival and Workshops, Allegan, MI Contact 269-948-2497 or www.michiganfiberfestival.com

August 22, 2009 – 4th Biennial Spooner Dairy Sheep Day, Spooner, WI - Contact ymberger@wisc.edu

September 5-7, 2009 – Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival, Jefferson, Wisconsin. Contact: 608-868-2505 or www.wisconsinsheepandwoolfestival.com

September 19–20, 2009 – “A Wool Gathering”, Yellow Springs, OH Contact cgplmp@erinet.com

September 25-27, 2009 – 10th Annual Northern Michigan Lamb & Wool Festival, Contact 231-582-3206 or holly@shaltzfarm.com or www.lambandwoolfestival.com

Eastern Shows and Events

September 19-20, 2009 – 15th Annual Finger Lakes Fiber Arts Festival, Hemlock, NY. www.gvhg.org/fest.html

September 26, 2009 – 5th Annual Knox Farm Fiber Festival Contact 716-652-3237

September 27, 2009 – 2009 Natural Colored Wool Show, “Big E”, West Springfield, MA Contact www.ncwga.org/national.html or www.thebige.com/agriculture/ag_sheep.html

October 2-4, 2009 – Kentucky Wool Festival, Falmouth, KY. Contact crafts@kywoolfest.org or www.kywoolfest.org

October 3-4, 2009 – 21st Annual Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival, Tunbridge, VT. Contact 802-223-2456 or festival09@comcast.net or www.vermontsheep.org/festival.html

October 17-18, 2009 – New York State Sheep & Wool Festival, Rhinebeck, NY Contact 304-379-9100 or www.sheepandwool.com

October 23-25, 2009 – Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair, South of Asheville, NC Contact 828-891-6045 0r www.saffsite.org

November 6-7, 2009 Wool and Fiber Festival, West Springfield, MA

International Shows and Events

September 4-9, 2009 – 7th World Congress on Colored Sheep, Gramado City, Brazil

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