----- Original Message ----
From: Ricky Graham <rock.guitar.guru@btinternet.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:07:18 AM
Subject: Re: SUBMISSIONS Y2K8 INTERNATIONAL LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL
Hi Rick,
Would there be a possibility of getting a slot myself?
Thanks,
Ricky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Walker" <
looppool@cruzio.com>
To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <
Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Cc: "Y2K LOOPFEST SAVES" <
y2k6loopfest@yahoo.com>; "Mr Dick"
<
purplehand@hotmail.com>; "Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <
looppool@cruzio.com>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 4:45 AM
Subject: SUBMISSIONS Y2K8 INTERNATIONAL LIVE LOOPING
FESTIVAL
> Kevin Kissinger wrote:
>
> "One of the highlights of 2007 was the Y2K7 Live Looping festival. I
> really want to participate in 2008 -- do we have any word on a 2008
> festival yet? I heard rumors that it will be in Pittsburgh, PA...:
>
> Because I have produced this festival for the past 8 years and because I
> am
> leaving on a long 10 week tour of Scandinavia, Germany and the British
> Isles
> in May, I had seriously discussed the possibility of farming out the
> festival to Pittsburgh this year.
>
> Unfortunately, it just didn't work out after we put some serious thought
> and
> advanced work into it.
>
> So............. I have decided to produce the Y2K8 LOOP FESTIVAL
> in Santa Cruz again this year on October 18th and 19th.
>
> some changes this
year:
>
> There probably will NOT be a Friday night concert like last year unless I
> score a really big
> headliner (Bill Frisell, David Torn, Imogen Heap, Kellar Williams or
> someone of that stature)
> but I reserve the right to change my mind at the last minute (smile) and
> there
> won't be additional bay area gigs.
>
> I feel a little badly about this because I"ve always tried to get gigs for
> our travelling headliners in
> past years to make their stays more memorable, but it's just gotten to be
> too much work
> to juggle this enormous responsibility every year (especially in a year
> where I 'm already
> juggling gigs in 10 countries ahead of time). I will, however, open up
> to my booking information
> to travelling loopers so they can book gigs around the event.
>
>
Additionally, there is a strong possibility that there will be
> a Southern California version of the Y2K8 International Live Looping
> Festival
> the weekend after the Santa Cruz main festival. I'll wait for the
> promoter of that event
> to officially announce it with details in his own time.
>
>
> I, unfortunately, just do not have the time to make the festival be as
> elaborate or as large as it
> has been in the past years due to time contraints (it took me 4 1/2
> months to produce
> in 2006 and it took me 6 months to produce in 2007),
>
> so what I'm going to do is this:
>
> I am going to give priority bookings to the artists who come from furthest
> away
> and to artists who have never played the festival in the past first.
>
> Anyone who is interested in participating again this year should
download,
> read and mail me the official Y2K8 Submission Application.
>
> The mailing address is on the FESTIVAL SUBMISSION APPLICATION FRORM
>
> available here:
>
>
http://www.looppool.info/Y2K8submissionAPPLICATION/>
> Thanks a lot, yours, Rick Walker
>
>
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