East Coast Surfing Championships - Press Office - ECSC, the premier surfing contest and Pro-Am Surfing competition on the East Coast is the Southeast's best beach and entertainment festival located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The surfing competition and beach events also includes other water sports: skimboarding, volleyball, a boardwalk 5K run, Hooters swimsuit contest, street skateboard and ramp contests, and live bands and music on the beach.

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Maggie Douglas / Public Relations Chairman
email: publicrelations@surfecsc.com / phone: 757-723-1981

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****FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2005 ****

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- The Violent Femmes, Carbon Leaf and The Spin Doctors will be performing FREE at the 43rd Annual East Coast Surfing Championships to be held August 24-28, 2005 at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront.

Soja and The Violent Femmes headline Friday night’s entertainment. Jimmies Chicken Shack, Ingram Hill and Carbon Leaf will perform Saturday night. The weekend finishes with a performance by The Spin Doctors.

The Violent Femmes, founded in the 1980’s, are popular with many different age groups largely because their fans have stayed loyal to the group. The Femmes are probably best known for the song Blister in the Sun.

Carbon Leaf has been playing to packed crowds up and down the East Coast for the past five years. Indian Summer is their most recent CD and the song Life Less Ordinary debuted on the American Top 40 charts in May.

The Spin Doctors, formed in 1992, disbanded soon after playing Woodstock in 1994. Now, the original group is back together again and better than ever playing to a mix of original and newly recorded songs..

The ECSC is North America’s oldest surfing contest and the second oldest continuously-run surfing contest in the world. About 100 professional surfers from around the world will compete for cash prizes. There will also be hundreds of amateur surfers competing for top ranking on the amateur circuit.

But ECSC has evolved over its forty-three years as more than just a surfing event. Dozens of people also take part in other competitions including skimboarding, volleyball and an oceanfront 5K run. The festival and all events are open to the public, free of charge.

The East Coast Surfing Championships is produced solely by the Virginia Beach Jaycees, an all volunteer organization. A portion of the proceeds raised at the event benefit the Jaycee’s many charitable projects.

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