What’s Happening In Alaska
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The Last Frontier
Winter Festivals And Events
Pro Music’s New Webcam
Pro Music has a new webcam on the welcome page of ProMusicAlaska.com. It is a beautiful view of the Chena River from Pro Music. Come by and watch the Open North American Sled dog Races, the Red Green River Regatta, and when the ices goes out. Go to the webcam
Pro Music Opens New Website For Alaskan Musicians
AlaskanMusicians.com is a website for Alaskan musicians to list a description of their music and their contact information for free. A great place to find a band for a party or special event. Go To: AlaskanMusicians.com
BP And ConocoPhillips Have Joined Together To Build Alaskan Natural Gas Pipeline To Canada
The two major oil companies have joined forces to build a natural gas pipeline and the project is called Denali - The Alaska Gas Pipeline.
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Pro Music Alaskan PFD Sale!
Pro Music and ProMusicAlaska.com always have great items on sale for the Alaskan Permanent Fund Dividend. Stop by and browse around and find great products at competitive prices.
Pro Music Will Support The Open North American Sled Dog Race!
Pro Music will once again have the ProMusicAlaska.com Webcam pointed at the Chena River for the Open North American Sled Dog Championship on March 16th though the 18th. Stop by the website to see the mushers zoom down the Chena River!
JANUARY
•Polar Bear Jump Festival -- Seward.
•Martin Luther King Day -- Statewide.
• Anchorage Folk Festival -- Anchorage
FEBRUARY
•Tent City Festival -- Wrangell.
Celebrates the gold and timber history of this Inside Passage city.
•Ice Worm Festival -- Cordova.
Fireworks, contests, music and art.
•State Winter Carnival -- Willow.
Fireworks, outhouse race, sled-dog races, chain saw competition, fishing and arts and crafts.
•Winter Ice Festival -- Seward.
•Winter Carnival -- Homer.
•Yukon Quest -- Fairbanks.
Hard sled-dog race to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, starts in downtown Fairbanks. (In 2010 it starts in Fairbanks and ends in Whitehorse.)
•Iron Dog Snowmachine Race -- Fairbanks.
2,000-mile snowmobile race starts in Fairbanks and passes through Nome and Big Lake on its way to Wasilla.
•Fur Rendezvous Festival -- Anchorage.
Sled dog races, carnival, art exhibits, fur auction, food.
•Iditarod Days Festival -- Wasilla.
Cross-country ski races, snowshoe softball, ice fishing, arts and crafts and various other activities leading up to the Iditarod restart.
•Winterfest -- Denali National Park.
Survival tips, snowshoe and ski trips into the park, food and music.
MARCH
•World Ice Carving Championship -- Fairbanks.
Carvings are judged and left on display.
•Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race -- Anchorage, Wasilla to Nome.
Race has ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage and goes to Eagle River. The next day, the official start occurs in Wasilla. Parties and contests in Nome until the winner arrives.
•Ice Classic Tripod Weekend -- Nenana.
River town near Fairbanks puts a tripod on the Tanana River in a contest to see when the ice will go out.
•Tour of Anchorage -- Anchorage.
Cross-country ski marathon.
•Limited North American Championship Sled Dog Race -- Fairbanks.
•Chatanika Days -- Chatanika.
Gold-mining hamlet celebrates winter.
•Spring equinox -- Statewide.
12 hours of daylight.
•Open North American Championship Sled Dog Race -- Fairbanks.
•Pillar Mountain Golf Classic -- Kodiak.
Tournament to drive a golf ball up Pillar Mountain in the fewest strokes.
APRIL
•International Curling Bonspiel -- Fairbanks.
•Arctic Man Ski and Sno-Go Classic -- Paxson.
Skiers and machines combine in breakneck runs down a mountain.
•Whalefest -- Kodiak.
Watch migrating whales.
•Garnet Festival -- Wrangell.
The bald eagles gather at the Stikine River mouth.
•Alaska Folk Festival -- Juneau.
Music and art.
•Alyeska Resort Spring Carnival and Slush Cup -- Girdwood.
Resort town south of Anchorage begins its farewell to the ski season.
•Native Youth Olympics -- Anchorage.
Youths from around the state compete in traditional games at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
•Old Harbor Whaling Festival -- Kodiak.
Celebrate one part of the island's maritime history.
