Huge Festival Returns to Readington
The New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning is the largest summertime hot air balloon and music festival in North America and has been designated multiple times as a Top 100 Festival in North America by the A.B.A.
Held annually at Solberg Airport in Readington, NJ, the festival has twice daily mass ascensions of up to 100 special shape and sport hot air balloons, concerts, family entertainment, hundreds of crafters and vendors, great food, fireworks, a balloon glow, and more. This year’s festival runs July 29-31.
Joel and Maryann chatted with Howard Freeman D. H. A. (Doctor of Hot Air), the Executive Producer of the this amazing festival. Listen here…
More Festival info at balloonfestival.com
Joel Katz is the Morning Show Personality, Assistant Program Director, Podcast Host, Voiceover artist, audio producer, and Digital Content Writer for Magic 98.3. Joel has been working in New Jersey radio since college and started at Magic in 2002 as the Morning Show Host, “I can’t think of another place where I’d fit more perfectly; it’s just a great company with awesome people.” Joel is married to Kathleen, his elementary school sweetheart (they were each other’s first dates at age 9), shares a birthday with his oldest son, Ty, and has twins, Kiera and Liam. Joel runs at least 3.1 miles every day and enjoys playing basketball, doing laundry, saving his turn signal for when he really needs it, kissing dogs through a fence, using coasters, making that cool noise by rubbing his fingers on balloons, and chasing after ping pong balls on a windy cruise ship.