Following the outstanding success of the Wessex Folk festival 2008, we thought it would be really nice to keep in touch with the many friends we made over the weekend of the festival 6 - 8 June 2008.The perfect way seemed to be to have a blog where we could post the latest updates about what is happening and where all our friends, old and new, could chat and comment.
So here it is :-)
Your comments are always welcomed especially about making the next festival even better than the last one.
Bye for now
Dave
(Dave Milner - Wessex Folk Festival Committee)
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3 comments:
Your comments are welcomed here
Thanks Guys and Gals. Another successful year and I was, again, proud to be a part of it.
Nige Canter
After such a successful festival, it's perhaps a bit challenging to see how it could be improved.
As with all folk festivals, however, there are probably a lot of different stakeholders and each perhaps needs to be considered separately.
Examples of some stakeholders could include:
the general tourist who sees the festival in passing
the tourist who comes to Weymouth because of the folk festival
the dedicated folkie who specifically enjoys any one of either sessions, concerts or workshops
the hoteliers and tourist industry that get extra bookings because of the festival
the local bands who get public exposure because of the folk festival
even perhaps local businesses who may currently feel they are not benefiting from the festival or who feel they are being adversely affected.
I'm sure there are many other stakeholders whose individual cases could be considered and their needs catered for and improved.
However, there is one stakeholder that it is easy to forget and that is all the hard working people who make the festival possible. Better could mean less strain or less work for them - or a bigger or more complex festival could mean even more work and stress, which could be seen as a negative.
Just a few thoughts ...
It will be really interesting to see how it develops over the next few years :-)
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