The Fine Print
Please read this information before ordering tickets, and please follow these rules and guidelines to help make the Festival pleasant for everyone. We realize it's a lot to read, but you'll thank yourself later.
TICKET AND CAMPING ORDERS
All advance tickets (weekend and single-day passes) can be orderd by mail, phone, on-line or in person from the Hiawatha Office at 129 W. Baraga, Suite C (Non Profit Commons; U.P. Children's Museum block), in Marquette. Regular hours are noon to 6 p.m., Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Starting Monday, June 16, we'll expand our office hours to 12 noon to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday, through 6 p.m., Tuesday, July 15. Please use the order form in our newsletter or on this website for mail orders.
Hiawatha will sell advance tickets and handle camping registrations from noon, May 27, through 6 p.m., Tuesday, July 15, 2008. No advance tickets will be sold after July 15.
You may pay for tickets with cash, check, money order, or Visa or Mastercard credit or debit cards. Please make checks payable to Hiawatha Music Co-op.
Sorry - no refunds or exchanges on any tickets, tags, etc.
We will mail your ticket order to you before June 30, if you provide a self-addressed, #10 business-size envelope with adequate postage. For large orders, please use extra postage. Please remember that minimum postage for a regular mailing is now 42 cents. Thank you!
If you order by phone, we can mail your order to you for an additional $2 to cover postage and handling, if you choose.
If you order by phone, please have your order organized and your credit-card information ready so we can take as little of your time - and maybe your long-distance charges! - as possible. Thank you!
Ticket orders received after June 30, or without a stamped, addressed, #10 business-size envelope will be held at the Gate. Please order early.
No ticket sales at the Festival from midnight Saturday to 7 a.m., Sunday.
ABSOLUTELY NO PETS ALLOWED. Boarding facilities in the Marquette area are very limited, so please provide for your pet before you leave home.
Our mainstage seating area is divided into space for seating on blankets, seating in low chairs and seating in regular (tall) lawn chairs. Please respect these areas so all Festival-goers can see the performers.
Also, please do not use chairs with umbrellas or canopies in the mainstage area. Thanks!
CAMPING RULES
You must have an official Festival camping tag attached to each camping unit (i.e. tent, RV, etc.). This also includes screened "pavilion" type tents for eating areas, etc. The Marquette County Health Department figures our camping density on the number of units set up. The tag will indicate the camping area in which that camping unit is allowed.
Each camping tag will cost $10 and is good for the Friday, Saturday and Sunday night of the Festival weekend.
Owners of untagged camping units discovered during the Festival will have a choice of removing the unit or buying an "emergency" tag for $20.
The Marquette County Health Department requires a minimum of four feet of space between all camping units. In 2007 they were out there with rulers, and we're not kidding! So please set up with this spacing to avoid having to move. Thanks!
Only adult weekend ticket holders may register camping units. We will sell camping tags only to people over age 18. We reserve the right to ask for proof of age for anyone purchasing an adult ticket. Parents or adult guardians must register any camping units occupied by minors, and these minors must camp in the same area as their guardians. Parents or guardians will be held responsible for the actions of minors under their supervision.
Campers will be registered to specific areas in the Park, identified as A through E. Camping will be allowed only in these areas. Please see map below.
Indicate your three camping-area choices on your ticket order. We will provide tags on a first-come, first-served basis. We'll try to provide your first-choice area, but we may not be able to do so in every case.
Our park contract and health department permit allow us to issue only 1,000 tags, and we must save some of those for performers, vendors, key volunteers, etc. Please do not register for a campsite if you do not intend to camp. Please do not order more tags than you need. Please understand that we may run out of tags before advance ticket sales end. Earlier ticket orders have a better chance of getting tags in their first-choice area.
You will receive your camping tag(s) with your tickets. You must bring the camping tags to the Festival to be permitted to camp. Owners of untagged camping units discovered during the Festival will have a choice of removing the unit or buying an "emergency" tag for $20.
The western end of Tourist Park - Section B - is for Quiet Camping. Campers in this area will maintain a reasonable silence after 10 p.m. Those unable to comply with this request may be asked to leave the area.
Drumming during non-daylight hours is permitted only in Area D. No drumming allowed after 1 a.m. local time.
TEENS MUST BE SUPERVISED. We welcome teens and have many activities for them. But unsupervised teens can make bad choices like under-age drinking, theft, disruptive noise, etc. Hiawatha will enforce a midnight curfew for Festival-goers under age 18. Disruptive teens and their guardians will be removed from the Festival grounds. Under-age drinkers and anyone of any age engaged in illegal activities can and probably will be arrested by the Marquette Police.
People who sneak into the Festival without paying steal from honest Festival-goers, the musicians and the Music Co-op. Those who sneak in may be ticketed for trespassing.
HIAWATHA BEGINS AT NOON ON FRIDAY. If you come to the Festival on Friday and plan to camp onsite, please remember that Tourist Park will not allow you to enter the Park grounds until 12 noon. Campers already in the Park from Thursday night retain sole control of their campsites until that time. Campsites MAY still be available for the nights preceding the Festival. To learn about reservations for those nights, please call the Marquette Parks and Recreation Office at 906-228-0460.
ABSOLUTELY NO PETS ALLOWED. Boarding facilities in the Marquette area are very limited, so please provide for your pet before you leave home.
FIRES IN REGULAR PARK FIRE RINGS ONLY! Please do not use free-standing fireplaces or fire pits or fire rings from outside the park. Please keep tents, blankets and other flammable items at a safe distance from your campfire. Please do not move the Park's fire rings. Please do not bring firewood from outside the Marquette area, due to the problem with the emerald ash borer and other invasive, non-native species.
PLEASE PUT YOUR TABLES BACK! If you move a picnic table, please put it back when you break camp. Hiawatha pays extra to the City of Marquette if this is not done.
PLEASE TAKE YOUR JUNK WITH YOU! When you leave, please take ALL the things you brought to your campsite. Please DO NOT leave unwanted gear at the Tourist Park. Hiawatha pays for every ounce of trash we haul out of the Park. Big items really run up the bill and are a huge burden for our tear-down volunteers, many of whom have been working hard all weekend.
OFF-SITE PARKING AND PARKING PASSES
A free shuttle bus will run to and from off-site parking throughout the weekend. We try to keep the Festival site free of excess vehicle traffic. If you do not need your vehicle on site, please park in the off-site parking and use the free shuttle. We can issue you a temporary parking pass so you can unload your camping gear.
To park your vehicle in Tourist Park during the Festival, you must buy and display a parking pass.
Parking Passes are available to registered weekend campers only. EXCEPTION: People whose vehicles have official handicap license plates or hang tags may park in the Festival grounds even if they are not camping. Handicap parking passes are free. Also, people who have purchased annual memberships of $100 more are entitled to Patron Parking in the ball-diamond area.
Parking Passes are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Purchase your Parking Pass when you order your Weekend Tickets and register your camping unit(s).
You must bring your Parking Pass to the Festival to park on the Festival site.
CAMPING TAG OR PARKING PASS? You should only have to buy one type of tag per vehicle in the campground: either a parking tag or a camping tag. If you're going to park the vehicle on your campsite as a camping unit and leave it in place all weekend, you should purchase a $10 camping tag for it. If you want the convenience of driving your vehicle in and out of the park during the weekend, you should buy a $35 parking pass for it.
