Tacoma Native and “The Voice” Star Vicci Martinez
to Headline Tag Festival on Sunday, May 22
Free Public Arts Festival to Also Feature Over 100 Local Artists,
Music Acts, Food Trucks, Beer Gardens
May 16, 2022—Tacoma, Wash. – Tacoma native Vicci Martinez, who appeared in NBC’s “The Voice” and the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black” will headline Tacoma’s TAG Festival (Together… In Art and Glass) on Sunday, May 22.
Martinez, who placed third in season 1 of the singing contest will be preceded on the TAG Festival stage by local musical acts Amelia Day, Sacred Janitor, and The Little Lies, as well as performers from the Asian Pacific Cultural Center, representing Japan and Guam. The festivities will kick off with a welcome ceremony by the Puyallup Tribe.
The one-day free festival will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown Tacoma, featuring more than 100 glass artists, muralists, potters and ceramicists, jewelry artists, painters and sculptors, and crafts people of all kinds, and will encompass Pacific Avenue from the Tacoma Art Museum to the Washington State History Museum, the Museum of Glass Plaza, and the Bridge of Glass. The event will also include food vendors, beer gardens, and live-glassblowing at mobile hot shops - including one from the Corning Museum of Glass in New York which will be hosted in the parking lot of LeMay - America's Car Museum. Additionally, Museum of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum, and the Washington State History Museum will offer free admission to attendees.
To learn more about the TAG Festival, please visit www.TravelTacoma.com/TAG.
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Mike Bush
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mike@traveltacom.com
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