The dreams are starting again. The ones where you think you have everything in place and then the curtains open and the audience is nowhere to be found.
Organizing a festival is a little like old age: it is not for sissies. It is more work then even I imagined possible. There’s the fundraising, the visas, the programming, the contracts with musicians, the endless meetings and presentations, the thousands of phone calls and emails, the ads, the programs, the printers, the posters, the plane tickets and housing and meals. I should have known better.
But then I get a phone call from someone who heard the festival last year asking when they can buy tickets. Or, I hear Lorenzo Gatto, our soloist for this summer, play a special concert in April and I can’t wait to tell everyone how spectacular it is going to be.
And, it is. This year we will have a weeklong intensive workshop for local high school string players, five incredible concerts (two with Lorenzo) and six open rehearsals. We’ve also formed a collaboration with four local Cary restaurants hoping to help build interest and traffic in downtown Cary.
Then there’s the new facility: Cary Arts Center, that is just this side of spectacular.
There is much to look forward to.
Go online. It’s time to buy tickets.
It’s happening again.
