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That's the way, Rick. I'm sooooo glad that your Y2K loopfest will still live on earth and you made the right choice on how to keep it going on. That's a good new as a start for the new year. If I can help in some way, let me know (website work for example), I'll be glad to give my help to the festival 'cos I got so much from it (and from you). All the best -Fabio Il giorno 02/gen/2011, alle ore 04:36, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> ha scritto: > Hi Everyone, > > So many people have asked me about the fate of the Y2K Looping Festivals >series > since I have announced I was retiring from producing it actively. > > I've given this a lot of very hard thought and did not want my decision >to negatively > impact the looping community. > > What I've decided to do is to become a mostly hands off Executive >Director for the > festival for the next couple of years at least and I've assembled a >powerful team > of 7 or 8 people who will actively run the festival as a committee. > > Just because I have so much experience with how to do this extremely >inexpensively > with maximum press exposure, I will be in an advisory capacity to this >soon to be hard > working team of people but I intend to be as hands off as possible. > > They will be doing all the work of this festival and I will not. > > > > Sooooo, I'm going to advise this group of people (who I'll name in >public as soon as > the whole team solidifies) to make the festival considerably smaller in >this coming year. > I'm going to advise them to not book anyone until probably 3 months >before the festival > (just to cut down on the constant e-mails that occur if they take >bookings for the whole year). > > People who wish to play the festival from outside of the country and >who, therefore, have to > know as far in advance as possible to make their bookings will be able >to apply before the > rest of the call for artists go out. > > Also, due to failing revenue streams since the Recession hit us, we may >not be able to > provide transportation for foreign artists to and from the Airports as >we have in the past. > This still remains to be seen and there will be some official >announcement about what we've decided to do some time in the next few >months. If we don't then we'll make sure to try and help foreign >artists to coordinate > arrivals so they can carpool to and from the airports in either rental >cars or single trip 'airporters'. > > There is also a strong possibility that there may only be a festival in >Santa Cruz to cut down > on all the considerable logistics of having additional concerts in other >cities. Again, this will > reside with the committee who produces the festival, but the first year >of the new regime > will probably have to be a lot smaller than in past years. > > So, that's it and I want to ask people to please respect my need for a >vacation > and patiently wait until the Y2K11 Committee posts officially for the >first time. > > SO PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL ME QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE >FESTIVAL! > > Gosh, was I shouting just then? I was , but I do so in a loving >way...........<giggle> > > I just really need a break after 10 year of hard work but I truly want >this festival > to go on because it's been so amazing in the past. > > okee dokee, May 2011 be a fantastic year for this wonderful looping >community. > We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in Santa Cruz in >the third week > of October. > > love, > rick walker > >