FESTIVAL

Festival Committee Report:

- Festival publicity and registration will be opening 2/15/14

- Spring Festival is booked and awesome:

- James Keelaghan

- Frank Vignola with Vinnie Raniolo

- Victoria Vox

- David Massengill

- MSG Acoustic Blues Trio

- Valerie Dupont - Member Performer

- Plus an offer is out to an amazing “Sunday Sundae”

for the final set.

We expect MSG to be the surprise hit for the old timers.

- Robin’s friend and colleague Carlos Checo

is helping us spruce up the committee’s web pages.

- We are working on some new and renewed publicity angles,

including meet-ups, and better use of Facebook and radio.

- Our publicity will feature Acoustic Guitar’s mention of us as

Jersey’s entry in the Top 50 Roadside Americana event.

- Further investigation confirms overwhelmingly that the title “festival”

is misleading to outsiders until they receive a long explanation.

Since our request for new names at the last meeting,

about 30 members contributed names and opinions.

We received many suggestions and a lot of support.

A big thank you for all the help.

No one name adequately described everything we are.

We’ve chosen The Folk Project Acoustic Getaway.

We think it works well for outsiders.

Insiders, however, are free to use the “F word.”

We remain,

Your Festival Committee

Robin and Whathisname Schaffer

ADDENDUM TO FESTIVAL REPORT:

A special note of thanks

was deleted accidentally from this report.

Joanne Cronin was the first to suggest the new name

and we wanted to thank her publicly for her excellent insight.

R&M