First , we want to thank all the contestants for the Logo Contest. Thank you for your time and effort in developing ideas and logo design concepts for the 2008 Blissfest Folk and Roots Festival. We have decided on the winners for this years contest. We had some excellent submissions and it was a difficult task to decide on just one for the logo and T-shirts. We decided to acknowledge several of the artists whose entries reached the final stages of the selection process. In addition to the winning design, we selected 5 runners up.  We appreciate all of the creative work that you, the artists, have put into making this years contest so successful. We keep entries on file and may re-consider them for future events.

 And the five runners up are:

 Mallory Roukema    Harbor Springs , MI                              

 Teddy Griffin     Harbor Springs, MI     

 Kristin Kelly  Grandville, MI                        

 Eric Kuhl & Ron Cooper      Rockford , MI

 Kayla Casciano     Career-Tech Center , Traverse City , MI

 All runners up will receive a weekend ticket to the 28^th annual festival scheduled for July 11-13.

Honorable mentions are:

 Mary Biskup                            Petoskey High School , Petoskey , MI

Autumn Ford                           Career-Tech Center , Traverse City , MI

Jerry Voight                             Career-Tech Center , Traverse City , MI

Gary Lesky                              Harbor Springs, MI

Ralph Tramontini                     Petoskey , MI

 Again we want to thank you for your time and effort in your designs and please don’t be discouraged if you didn’t win. We do keep logo entries on file and review them annually for possible use. You are all great artists and have talent beyond our belief. We would like to see your designs here for the 2009 Blissfest logo contest.