The Albany Tulip Festival
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Where Dutch History and Modern Community Converge
The Albany Tulip Festival is one of Albany's largest events, bringing thousands into Washington Park to view and celebrate the tulips, and the Dutch history of the area. Thousands and thousands of tulips of all types and colors make this event absolutely beautiful. This year we will celebrated the 61th Annual Albany Tulip Festival, on May 8-9, 2010, as always on Mother's Day Weekend.
"Night Fire"
~ The Burning Tulip ~
2008 brought a new tradition to the Albany Tulip Festival. This new element is called "Night Fire". It is a dramatic art installation floating in Washington Park Lake, with a 15-foot-tall steel tulip emerging from a burning structure.
Mayor Jennings said the inspiration for "Night Fire" came from two sources: the WaterFire in Providence and the Burning Man Festival held every year in the Nevada desert. "Night Fire" is a joint effort among the city, local artists and businesses, national and regional underwriters and an Oscar-winning pyrotechnics engineer.
Albany artist, Steven Rolf Kroeger, designed the tulip and lily pads. The while the burnable structure wwas made by Johnstown sculptor Torrance E. Fish. Both artists were selected by Albany Center Gallery. Denise Anderson, a College of St. Rose graduate will compose music especially for this event.
For more information on the project read the Fox News story on the 2008 big reveal and check out these photos of the burning of the structure around the floating tulip.
Mayor Jennings said the inspiration for "Night Fire" came from two sources: the WaterFire in Providence and the Burning Man Festival held every year in the Nevada desert. "Night Fire" is a joint effort among the city, local artists and businesses, national and regional underwriters and an Oscar-winning pyrotechnics engineer.
Albany artist, Steven Rolf Kroeger, designed the tulip and lily pads. The while the burnable structure wwas made by Johnstown sculptor Torrance E. Fish. Both artists were selected by Albany Center Gallery. Denise Anderson, a College of St. Rose graduate will compose music especially for this event.
For more information on the project read the Fox News story on the 2008 big reveal and check out these photos of the burning of the structure around the floating tulip.
Beautiful Tulips
Albany Tulip Festival Links
Official Webpages
- Albany Special Events: Tulip Festival
- The Official Website of The Albany Tulip Festival.
News and information about the event, as well as volunteer registration forms, and information for artists and crafters. - Tulip Festival 2007 -- Times Union - Albany NY
- Event coverage and videos of the 2007 event, from Albany's biggest newspaper, The Times Union.
The Latest News on the Tulip Festival
Tulip Bags
If you are spending the day at the Tulip Fest, you will need a bag. You've got to carry all your stuff for the day, plus all that you might buy at the festival marketplace. Carry one of these amazing tulip bags with you, and be the epotime of style.
Important!
Way to Go!
The Albany Tulip Festival was named as the winner of the 2003 hospitality excellence award and rated amongst the top 100 events by the American Bus Association.
The Albany Tulip Queen
Each year a Tulip Queen is chosen, along with her court. This is a honor...
The Tulip Queen must be a resident of Albany County between the ages of 18 and 23, and must never have been married. The chosen Queen would demonstrate leadership skills and have community outreach goals.
The Tulip Queen receives $5,000 scholarship and each member of her court receive a $1,500 scholarship.
Throughout the year, the reigning Tulip Queen acts as an ambassador to community functions promoting education and coordinates programs for the Mayor's Literacy Campaign.
For more information on the Tulip Queen, and to learn more about last year's 2008 Queen, Sarah Volk, and her court, visit AlbanyTulipQueen.com.
The Tulip Queen must be a resident of Albany County between the ages of 18 and 23, and must never have been married. The chosen Queen would demonstrate leadership skills and have community outreach goals.
The Tulip Queen receives $5,000 scholarship and each member of her court receive a $1,500 scholarship.
Throughout the year, the reigning Tulip Queen acts as an ambassador to community functions promoting education and coordinates programs for the Mayor's Literacy Campaign.
For more information on the Tulip Queen, and to learn more about last year's 2008 Queen, Sarah Volk, and her court, visit AlbanyTulipQueen.com.
Tulip Queen Items
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Albany Tulip Festival Items
Tulips Calendar Print
Price: $4.99
Tulips Note Cards (Pk of 10)
Price: $11.99
Albany Collage Postcards (Package of 8)
Price: $6.99
Tulip Festival Trivia
- Mayor Erastus Corning declared the Tulip Albany's official flower on July 1, 1948.
- Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands designated the "Orange Wonder" as Albany's official tulip.
- The first Tulip Festival was held on May 14, 1949.
- Albany is America's oldest Dutch settlement.
- The Tulip Festival originally crowned a King and a Queen.
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Bloggers take on the Tulip Festival
Capital District bloggers recall their experiences of the Albany Tulip Festival:
- Albany Tulip Festival: The Park
- Blogger Y|O|Y recalls the 2007 festival. When you enter Washington Park from the West, you walk along a pond that has a scenic little bridge that spans the water as a path to the lake house. This is an interesting structure that has...
- Mountain Visions: The Albany Tulip Festival -A Celebration Of Albany's Dutch Heritage
- Mountain Visions Photography recalls the 2007 festival, with some amazing photos. What great weather for this often rained out festival. Perhaps Albany's biggest out door festival and it seems to rain every year.
- A Work in Progress...: Albany Tulip Festival
- Blogger ArichNY recalls the 2007 festival. It was a gorgeous day for the Tulip Festival this year . . . I've never seen Washington Park so crowded! At one point, I heard Mayor Jennings say from the main stage that this was a record breaking crowd. I was impressed by...
- A Festival of Colors - My Daily Photographic Delights
- Photoblogger skrammer gives us a beautiful gallery of shots from the 2007 festival.
Tulip Festival Guestbook
Have you been to the Albany Tulip Festival? Planning to go? Think it looks like fun?
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NYThroughTheLens
Apr 24, 2011 @ 9:57 pm | delete
- Gorgeous. I really want to check this out now!
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RinchenChodron
Apr 17, 2011 @ 1:25 pm | delete
- Great lens on a local fare.
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Tipi
Apr 14, 2010 @ 2:50 pm | delete
- Tulips are beautiful flowers and so is this lens for that matter.
I would like to make it to the Ladyslipper Festival at Kabetogama Lake, MN this summer.
Best wishes for a great summer!
Susie
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JaguarJulie Feb 20, 2010 @ 10:00 am | delete
- Well, I've yet to make it to a tulip festival. Such a lovely flower.
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LaraineRose
Oct 14, 2009 @ 2:42 am | delete
- Just dropped in to tiptoe through your tulip lens. I haven't been to the Albany Tulip Festival but to Mount Vernon, Washington's "Tulip Town". I'm lensrolling this lens to my lens
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OhMe Jul 30, 2009 @ 8:18 am | delete
- I love tulips so know I would enjoy this festival. I hope you will add it to the plexo on my new Festivals lens. Thank you.
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Swisstoons
Apr 29, 2009 @ 10:31 pm | delete
- When I was little, our backyard was filled with flowers. Tulips were the first ones I can remember being able to identify. So, naturally enough, they were my favorites. I have a magnet at my Best Buds lens who would love to meet this lens.
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janices7 Apr 26, 2009 @ 9:48 am | delete
- Great photos! I love tulips and mine are finally coming up this spring...can't wait for them to bloom. Thanks for leaving such lovely comments on my Keukenhof Gardens in Holland lens:)
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Rick
Apr 8, 2009 @ 10:07 am | delete
- Tulip Fest is the best day Albany has to offer as long as it doesn't rain.
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Shannon
Apr 3, 2009 @ 6:21 am | delete
- My Husband and I really enjoyed the Tulip Fest when we went for the first time last year. We have two questions though. We are looking to come back again and want to know, can you bring a small little charcoal grill, a hibachi? Also, who is playing, who are the performers this year 2009?
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mulberry
Mar 14, 2009 @ 6:45 pm | delete
- I haven't been to the Albany Tulip festival but it sounds wonderful. Really enjoyed the photos!
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Treasures-By-Brenda
Feb 18, 2009 @ 5:45 pm | delete
- Nicely done page about Albany's tulip festival. I just created a page about our tulip festival and would like to invite you to visit it at The Canadian Tulip Festival" and to submit your lens to the link plexo there.
Brenda
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Jan 25, 2009 @ 4:13 am | delete
- In my mind - there is no spring without tulips. I have painted some too. I lensrolled your lens to mine. Let them meet =)
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SilenasImages
Oct 4, 2008 @ 8:42 am | delete
- I love the Albany Tulip Fest. I go every year to see and photograph the tulips. I always have a great time. Thank-you for making a lens on one of my favorite things about Albany, New York.
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coopd
Sep 28, 2008 @ 6:30 pm | delete
- Tulips are beautiful and interesting flowers. Thank you for sharing. 5* I would love having you submit this lens to my Nature Lovers group :)
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CherylK Jun 23, 2008 @ 8:17 pm | delete
- Just a lovely lens...my sisters live in the Skagitt Valley in Washington State - about an hour north of Seattle and they have a Tulip Festival every year, too. It's breathtaking. Would love to visit the one in Albany some time.
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hotbrain
May 15, 2008 @ 12:05 pm | delete
- Very nice lens! I never knew Albany had a tulip festival.... I just made a lens about the Tulip Fields in Washington State and that's how I found your lens! 'Til next year....
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totalhealth May 15, 2008 @ 10:21 am | delete
- Really lovely pictures.
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chefkeem
May 9, 2008 @ 10:19 pm | delete
- I tip-toed through your lens and now I smell good. That's worth a 5* rating! :-)
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Helensmrt
May 9, 2008 @ 2:49 am | delete
- Amazing lens! Love it!
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Squidster
Mar 17, 2008 @ 12:52 am | delete
- Positively beautiful lens! I love tulips, especially white ones. Thanks for this wonderful addition to the Festivals Around The World Group!
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flowergardener
Mar 9, 2008 @ 12:02 pm | delete
- Absolutely Gorgeous Photos! Welcome to the Flowers, Flowers, and more Flowers Group :)
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