Re: Oregon Loopfest

[Paul Richards <paulrichard10@adelphia.net>]

(I lived in Potland for 13 years)

Hey, so did I! I quit smoking several years ago, though. :)

--
Paul 

---- Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com> wrote: 
> I lived in Potland for 13 years.  Helped organize festivals, big 
> political rallies etc there.  Not there anymore (since 03)... but, like 
> you with your past home Ted, I have deep roots and connections there.  
> There's a good population in the Portland area, LOADS of musicians and 
> music lubbers.  My friend Lisa Lepine put on the Bite of Oregon for a 
> bunch of years.  The biggest festival in Portland I believe, if not all 
> of Oregon.  She's close to the McMenamin's group.  So I would opt to 
> have a promoter work with the idea, see if they can raise $$$ etc for 
> it.  Otherwise, some Oregonian musician will end up spending months and 
> months putting it together and losing critical music time.  Good 
> promoters can help a lot.
> 
> My friend Jim Miller was one of the founders of the Portland Blues 
> Festival.  Don't know if he's still in the game but he's very well 
> connected too.
> 
> In Eugene I have a friend who runs (ran?) a Health and Wellness 
> Festival that did well.  Cool guy - a real go getter -  and could be 
> very motivated.  Peter LeSeuer.
> 
> I'd go to bat with any of these folks to help move the idea forward.
> 
> We've done festivals here at our farm and they are a LOT OF WORK!  Not 
> big ones - I think 400 folks was our last one. I don't personally have 
> time to organize festivals right now.   But I'll help as I can and 
> provide whatever contacts and connectors I have to help move the idea 
> forward.   I think we'd need a point man or woman to run with the ball.
> 
> Love the idea.  And I think it would be very popular in Portland for 
> certain.
> 
> I'd consider doing a looping festival here on the island, but the only 
> looping folks around here know of is looping cows, looping around the 
> paddock and getting looped.
> 
> richard sales
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> On 8-May-07, at 10:28 AM, tEd ® kiLLiAn wrote:
> 
> > Hi all all you Oregonizers,
> >
> > I think, given that few or none of us are actual professional 
> > promoters, whoever (individually) or whatever group of us manages to 
> > try to put on such a thing as an Oregon Loopfest -- it ought to be put 
> > on in whatever LOCAL area the main organizer resides in.
> >
> > That's the one thing that has always held me up. I don't know enough 
> > people or have enough connections around other places in Oregon 
> > (outside the Rogue Valley)  to be the primary organizer of an event 
> > outside the place I live. And lets face it, hardly anyone would come 
> > to an Oregon Loopfest if held in Medford.
> >
> > Personally, I could more easily organize (at long distance) a music 
> > fest in Southern California (where I used to live, and still play on 
> > occassion) because of all the connections I still have down there. But 
> > since most of the folks down there already do things like that, why 
> > bother.
> >
> > Which one of us lives in a sizeable metropolitan city, or actually 
> > NEAR any of those cool places mentioned, and would be willing to 
> > tackle the project themselves? That's basically the problem.
> >
> > --
> > tEd ® kiLLiAn
> >