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August 1, 1990
Mr. Cesar Odio, City Manager
City of Miami
3500 Pan American Drive
Miami, FL 33133
Dear Mr. Odio:
This October 20, 1990, Tobacco Road will be sponsoring the first
annual Miami River Blues Festival -- a musical event hosting
famous blues artists from Miami and Nationwide. The evening will
offer not only a live outdoor concert but food and beverage --
cajun style. This event will bring South Floridians of all ages
to the banks of the Miami River in support of a charitable event.
Quality, awareness and community involvement are Tobacco Road's
goals for the festival: quality music and entertainment;
awareness of the Miami River, one of our city's lifelines;
community involvement to all participants in terms of support of
a major Miami River clean-up effort.
We believe the best location for an event of this kind would be
right where we are located. Our objective is to invite Miamians
downtown for a Saturday evening to enjoy this original, first of
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its kind event. Besides the music, Miamians will basque in the
nighttime beauty of our city's skyline and the new ambiance of
downtown at night.
For our first year out we project the event to be relatively
small, approximately
pp y 1500 patrons. To accommodate this number we
have chosen the parking lot behind Tobacco Road Bar at 626 S.
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Miami Ave. During our research for this grass roots event, we
learned that .this city block is governed by a -noise ordinance
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prohibiting music outdoors after 11:00PM. Since we strongly
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believe this festival should be an evening event, we ask
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permission for the ordinance to be extended until 1:OOAN..
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In years to come we hope this event will grow, achieving the
same respect and notoriety as the famous Now Orleans Jazz
Festival (whose roots,, incidentally began in a parking lot)
Ultimately, we hope that the Miami River Blues Festival, like the
Now Orleans Jazz Festival, will be at least a full weekend long.
We respectfully request your consideratioa in this matter. 1.
will telephone you this week to discuss the above.
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Patrick J.�er
Managing Partner
TOBACCO ROAD, INC.
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