Although it's very unlikely I'll make it over this year, I hold the festival dear to my heart and truly hope it goes on in some form - but my hopes aren't terribly high for it maintaining its standard, as yet another organiser has been dropped by the city.
That said, I didn't have terribly high hopes last year and I was pleasantly surprised at how it came together. After six years watching this festival's annual preamble in the press and on this list there is only one thing that can be gleaned: speculation is just that. The odds have always been stacked against the festival, *especially* during the first year, when nothing remotely like it had ever been attempted in America. Surely that counts for something??? Obvioulsy people want to know if it's going to happen and in what form (especially those travelling for it), but I think that until someone can make an insightful appeal to authority or unless something more concrete is released to the public it's fairly meaningless to cast our own preconceptions of the local and global scenes on what little information we have right now. Tristan ======= http://www.phonopsia.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.11/264 - Release Date: 17/02/2006
