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(I lived in Potland for 13 years) Hey, so did I! I quit smoking several years ago, though. :) -- Paul ---- Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com> wrote: > I lived in Potland for 13 years. Helped organize festivals, big > political rallies etc there. Not there anymore (since 03)... but, like > you with your past home Ted, I have deep roots and connections there. > There's a good population in the Portland area, LOADS of musicians and > music lubbers. My friend Lisa Lepine put on the Bite of Oregon for a > bunch of years. The biggest festival in Portland I believe, if not all > of Oregon. She's close to the McMenamin's group. So I would opt to > have a promoter work with the idea, see if they can raise $$$ etc for > it. Otherwise, some Oregonian musician will end up spending months and > months putting it together and losing critical music time. Good > promoters can help a lot. > > My friend Jim Miller was one of the founders of the Portland Blues > Festival. Don't know if he's still in the game but he's very well > connected too. > > In Eugene I have a friend who runs (ran?) a Health and Wellness > Festival that did well. Cool guy - a real go getter - and could be > very motivated. Peter LeSeuer. > > I'd go to bat with any of these folks to help move the idea forward. > > We've done festivals here at our farm and they are a LOT OF WORK! Not > big ones - I think 400 folks was our last one. I don't personally have > time to organize festivals right now. But I'll help as I can and > provide whatever contacts and connectors I have to help move the idea > forward. I think we'd need a point man or woman to run with the ball. > > Love the idea. And I think it would be very popular in Portland for > certain. > > I'd consider doing a looping festival here on the island, but the only > looping folks around here know of is looping cows, looping around the > paddock and getting looped. > > richard sales > glassWing farm and studio > vancouver island, b.c. > 800.545.6846 > 250.752.4816 > www.glassWing.com > www.richardsales.com > www.hayleysales.com > www.blueberryfieldsfarm.com > On 8-May-07, at 10:28 AM, tEd ® kiLLiAn wrote: > > > Hi all all you Oregonizers, > > > > I think, given that few or none of us are actual professional > > promoters, whoever (individually) or whatever group of us manages to > > try to put on such a thing as an Oregon Loopfest -- it ought to be put > > on in whatever LOCAL area the main organizer resides in. > > > > That's the one thing that has always held me up. I don't know enough > > people or have enough connections around other places in Oregon > > (outside the Rogue Valley) to be the primary organizer of an event > > outside the place I live. And lets face it, hardly anyone would come > > to an Oregon Loopfest if held in Medford. > > > > Personally, I could more easily organize (at long distance) a music > > fest in Southern California (where I used to live, and still play on > > occassion) because of all the connections I still have down there. But > > since most of the folks down there already do things like that, why > > bother. > > > > Which one of us lives in a sizeable metropolitan city, or actually > > NEAR any of those cool places mentioned, and would be willing to > > tackle the project themselves? That's basically the problem. > > > > -- > > tEd ® kiLLiAn > >