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Save the Date: New Year, New Date
The 6th Annual Nashville Dragon Boat & River Festival
Saturday, September 29, 2012

 
 

 

Thank you so much for making the 5th Annual Nashville Dragon Boat & River Festival successful!
 

We especially want to thank our generous sponsors: Gaylord Entertainment, Bridgestone, Brown and Caldwell, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, Fulin’s Asian Cuisine, Qualifacts Systems, Inc., Hiscall, Lightning 100 and Team Green, Nashville Scene, Nashville Hiking Meetup, Fox 17, Lithographics, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Yazoo, Yelp, Glaceau Vitamin Water, Metro Parks, Bread & Company, and Whole Foods as well as our partners TSRA and the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville.
 

Congratulations to this year’s Grand Champions, the Nashville Rugby Club, and this year’s Spirit Award winners, the Cumberland Crayfish! The top four teams were:

1. Nashville Rugby Club

2. The Massey Machine (Belmont Univ School of Business)

3. Damn Boat Randy’s

4. The Entertainment Crew (Ingram Entertainment)


For the full results, click HERE.


Also congratulations to these other Spirit Award winners:

Individual: Chicken from Damn Boat Randy’s

Most Improved Time: Trogdor the Contribu-nator! (The Contributor) from 1:59.152 to 1:44.487

Best Team Tent: Wok N’ Row

Best Dressed Drummer: Deloittes’s EDSC

Best T-shirt/Costume Design: A Breast or Knot


Please mark your calendars now for the 6th Annual Nashville Dragon Boat & River Festival that will be held on August 25, 2012!

 

 


  *Click HERE  to see this year's event program.*



If you are interested in becoming a sponsor for the
2011 Nashville Dragon Boat & River Festival click HERE!

To sign up to paddle click HERE!



See the results of the 2010 event HERE.

Watch the slideshow of last year's event below.

And check out the Cumberland River Compact's new YouTube site to watch videos of the event.



Click HERE to see last year's event program.

LISTEN TO OUR INTERVIEW WITH LIGHTNING 100's TUNED IN

On Saturday, August 14, the Cumberland River Compact and the Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association are hosting the 4th Annual Dragon Boat Races and River Festival at Riverfront Park, in Downtown Nashville.  Grab your paddles to raise awareness of these great organizations and promote the health of the Cumberland River. The festival combines the excitement of racing with the beauty and spectacle of Nashville’s diverse culture. In Chinese tradition, the dragon is a symbol of health and prosperity, and dragon boat racing inspires health and fitness among participants as well as spectators.

For questions or comments about the event, contact us by emailing us here or calling 615-837-1151.


 
 

Best Team Building Exercise: Dragon Boat Racing

Teamwork is key to winning Nashville’s newest tradition, the dragon boat race. Twenty rowers, sitting in a long canoe-like vessel, must paddle in absolute harmony or victory is unattainable. A drummer sitting at the head of the boat sets the pace—think Spartacus with less dying. Dragon boating started in China 2,500 years ago. The prows of the boats are decorated with a large, fearsome dragon head while a scaly, dragon tail curls from the stern. The race was held here for the first time in August on the Cumberland. The Scene fielded a team—Dragon Ass—and through practice, paddling and heckling the other teams, employees who at first didn’t even know each others’ names became pals. We may not have won first place, but it beat the hell out of trust falls and ropes courses at a corporate picnic. —P.J. TOBIA


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Health • River • Culture • Community
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and The Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association, Inc.