Freeboot Friday
Celebrate the Pirate football Season with cold drinks, warm food, and good music!
The Freeboot Friday series was started by the Uptown Greenville organization as a way to draw the sizable visiting East Carolina fan base into the center of Greenville for a night. The idea was simple: By presenting music, food, drinks, prizes and other offerings, it would draw people into the downtown district and, once there, make staying in the area for a night out an attractive choice.
That proved to be a successful formula. But it does not seem that the visiting fans make Freeboot Friday a successful event so much as city residents and those from the area who use the gathering as a place to reconnect with friends and neighbors. On a warm early evening, as the sun begins to set, there are few places better in Greenville to be.
FREEBOOT VENDORS
If you are an Uptown Greenville member business and would like to apply to have a booth at any of this year's Freeboot events, please complete and turn in the vendor form and payment to the Uptown office no later than 5 pm on the Wednesday before the event in which you'd like to participate.
In the event of rain, Freeboot Friday is held at Ham's Retaurant and Brewhouse.
FREEBOOT 2008
Friday, September 5
Friday, September 26
Friday, October 17
Friday, November 7
Freeboot Fridays Sponsors
East Carolina Alumni Association
Budwiser Select
Ripple City Artworks
This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council with funding from the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.