I took the liberty to repost Wayne Cezair comment from another post...
Many music festivals have morphed into huge mini industries. For example the Montreal international Jazz Festival which started 30 something years ago is now a major item on the music festival calendar and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, bringing in millions of dollars to the city.
Even in the Caribbean, festivals like the St Lucia Jazz Festival continue to attract visitors.
Once properly run with the right incentives, a pan festival may start out small but has the potential to grow big with time, if there is the requisite expertise and follow up to make it viable.
There are people who know how to do these things and they ain't necessarily involved with pan.
The guys who started the Mtl Festival were not jazz musicians or even musicians.
The Cirque du Soleil is a big industry now, having started at the same time in Mtl by a couple of street performers who are billionaires now.
It takes the right people, the right circumstances and above all it takes time.
Everybody wants everything to happen right now, or now for now as we say.
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I took the liberty to repost Wayne Cezair comment from another post...
Many music festivals have morphed into huge mini industries. For example the Montreal international Jazz Festival which started 30 something years ago is now a major item on the music festival calendar and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, bringing in millions of dollars to the city.
Even in the Caribbean, festivals like the St Lucia Jazz Festival continue to attract visitors.
Once properly run with the right incentives, a pan festival may start out small but has the potential to grow big with time, if there is the requisite expertise and follow up to make it viable.
There are people who know how to do these things and they ain't necessarily involved with pan.
The guys who started the Mtl Festival were not jazz musicians or even musicians.
The Cirque du Soleil is a big industry now, having started at the same time in Mtl by a couple of street performers who are billionaires now.
It takes the right people, the right circumstances and above all it takes time.
Everybody wants everything to happen right now, or now for now as we say.
Ramajay by GB and Anise Hadeed
Pan Ramajay 1994
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