> I must not forget to thank, profusely, ALL THE ARTISTS who
> so graciously gave their time with the generosity and
> brilliance of their
> artistry in their performances at the Y2K8 International
> Live Looping Festival.
>
> I don't know whether people know this or not but I was
> only able to get travel subsidy for one
> artist this year (Looperlative brought Luis Angulo one of
> our headliners) as opposed to
> three last year.
>
> This means that all 46 artists who ended up performing all
> came on their own dime.
> They came from 7 countries and all over the United States.
>
> Some of the top loopers in our scene were in the audience
> at 12 noon each day
> to cheer on the brand newbies who were playing.
>
> It was an incredible festival and I feel blessed to be
> associate with all of you and this
> wonderfully creative, supportive and frequently, 'out
> of the box' community.
>
>
> additionally, I also wanted to thank
>
> Krispen Hartung, Bill Putnam and myself for donating
> the equipment that we gave away to budding looping artists
> as part of our first year of the Y2K8 Loopers Endowment.
>
> We gave away a fully loop software tricked out PC laptop
> computer (to newbie and featured artist, Kevin Spears),
> a Digitech JAMMAN (to newbie Lindsey Wagner), a LINE 6
> DL-4 (to newbie Jack Schultz)
> and a Univeral Audio UAD-1 (to newbie, John Connell).
>
> Thanks everyone. See you at Y2K9!!!!
>
> much love and gratitude, Rick Walker