[HANASHIR:6692] Re: We Want Your CAJE Reports

[Elutman <Elutman...>]

In a message dated 8/17/2000 10:05:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
durleste (at) home(dot)com writes:

> Want to encourage all of you who attended CAJE to offer your own
>  thoughts and comments
>

What an incredible week!  My head is still reeling!  

My suggestion: It was unfortunate that music programming was run 
simultaneously in different venues.  Many people left the arena Tuesday 
night, to go to a different venue to hear other performers. Noah Budin and 
Rick Recht played to a virtually empty arena.  I realize that the "conflict" 
was caused by the effort to offer as many varieties of edu-tainment as 
possible.  I'm sure it's a difficult balance to strike.

I would like to offer an alternative.  At the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival 
(between 5,000-8,000 attendees), they also have tons of programming, both 
music and educational, but they do not run the performers in different venues 
simultaneously.  There is a day stage, afternoon stage, and evening stage, 
each in its own venue, and its own time slot.  Granted, I'm new to CAJE (yes, 
I had a red #1 ribbon on my nametag!) and this list, so perhaps the 
different-venues/different-time-slots thing has already been tried.  But just 
in case it hasn't, I wanted to offer it as a suggestion.

Evette Lutman
1st-timer from Ann Arbor, Michigan

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