Y2K11 International Live Looping Festival

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

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