Vertical Festival Announces Line-Up And Partnership With "See You At The Pole" For 2006 Event

In its third year, Vertical Festival announces the line-up for its 2006 event, to be held September 22nd and 23rd at the Shippensburg Fairgrounds in Shippensburg, PA. In addition to performances from well known artists, the Festival will also serve as a "See You At the Pole" Rally to encourage young people to participate in the national prayer gathering around the flagpole on their school campus on Wednesday, September 27th.

Friday night’s schedule features BEC Recording artist Jeremy Camp, Word Records’ and Stellar Kart. That evening will also play host to the See You At The Pole Rally. Saturday’s focus will be an outreach to area young people, with the first 200 attendees receiving a gift bag featuring items from HM Magazine, Christian Music Planet and MusiChristian.com. Performers on Saturday include Flicker Records’ band Pillar, Gotee artist John Reuben and newcomers Edison Glass and Bernard. David Nasser will speak Saturday night.

An event for the entire family, other highlights on Saturday will include the Local Band Showcase, the county’s largest ice cream sundae, the Freedom Skateboarding Team, Paintball, "Whip-topping in the Youth Pastor’s Face", 6 on 6 Volleyball competition, 3 on 3 Basketball, Horse rides, Putt-Putt Golf, Carnival games and much more.

"We are very excited about Vertical Festival 2006," says Scott Brown, Vertical Festival Co-Founder. "We have a great line up of performers, David Nasser is a powerful speaker and the Extreme Day activities include something fun for everyone who attends. The move to Shippensburg Fairground is also a big plus this year. It is a perfect venue for an event of this kind. We’re looking forward to a great time!"

James Reaves, Co-Founder and Spiritual Advisor for the event, continues, "The main goal of Vertical Fest is to reach out to the young people in Franklin and Cumberland Counties, provide them with a day of quality entertainment and clean fun and ultimately, impact some lives. Friday night will be the Rally for Wednesday’s national See You At The Pole prayer gathering and will be a time to encourage area youth to bring their friends to Saturday’s outreach event. The bands performing on Saturday are a bit more ‘hard edge’ and Pillar is known in both Christian and Mainstream music. We are excited about what God is going to do through this event!"

About Vertical Fest:
Vertical Festival, formerly the FIVE Yellow Bugs Festival, is in its third year. With a yearly attendance of nearly 3,000, the Festival has reached out to more than 5,000 youth and over 250 young people have received Jesus Christ as their Savior for the first time or recommitted their lives to the Lord and His ministry. Sponsors for the 2006 event include Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe, Christian Light Bookstore, Awaken Magazine, Shippensburg Church Of God, Cumberland Valley Tree Service, Christian Music Planet, HM Magazine, MusiChristian.com, Bryan Hey Builders, Naugle Motors, Del Martin Screen Printing, C.V. Wenger Inc, BJ Bricker Upholstery, Sheetz and 88.3 WordFM, who will use the event as their official kick-off, broadcasting into the Cumberland Valley.

About See You At The Pole:
The vision of a small group of teenagers in Burleson, Texas, the first See You At The Pole (SYATP) event was held in 1990, with 45,000 young people across the country gathering around their school flagpole before school to pray simultaneously. The following year, the participation grew to one million students. Since 1991, SYATP has grown to God-sized proportions, with nearly three million students from all 50 states, as well as 20 countries are responding and taking seriously the challenge to pray. The 2006 SYATP event will be held September 27th at 7:00am.

More information about Vertical Festival can be found online at www.verticalfest.com and for See You At The Pole, www.syatp.org.