Seward Music Festival

Posted on: October 25, 2009 | technorock | Comments Off | Print Article | Rate Post:

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Seward Rocks!

Starry Eyed Greetings to all fellow Seward, Moose Pass, and Alaskan friends of the Seward Music and Arts Festival. Well another year has come and gone again. Not January One, you say? Well, I say. My calendar no longer pivots around January first. It pretty much does celestial brodies around the last weekend of September! Why? Because that’s the stress/excitement focal point for me, the birthing moment. The Music Fest! That’s where the sun’s indefatigable energy comes through magnifying glass, concentrates and burns paper. That when all of those phone calls, junior ulcers, meetings, emails, nail biting deadlines pay for themselves. It’s intense! It’s so intense that no small group can weather it alone. So we come to the crux of my pitch. No, I’m not asking for more alms. I’m paying dues for alms received. All you cool cats who strolled through the doors, milled about, bought something, bought nothing, whatever you did . . . Thanks! You know who you are. You spanned space from far and wide, or not so far and wide to be amazed under Megan’s Big Tree. To all of the businesses that put enough faith in our ability to pack ‘em in and gave us a part of your bottom line, we hope we did your names and contributions justice. Thank You! You know who you are. Businesses and individual donors both inauspicious and otherwise! It all ads up for us and we count our lucky stars. To the plethora of arts vendors, be it your food art or your fine art, you amaze and inspire the booth wandering browser with your creativity! To you the fine entertainers, from here and there, you are the engine. Putting it on the stage, on the line in front of us. For us! Bringing divine interstellar sounds to our small hamlet for that sweet phase of the fall when we’re coming down from the summer hubris.
From charter companies, to B&B’s, from stage hand to muralist to committee crew, from granparents to grandkids, and all colors, flavor, and varieties of people in between that helped make this year’s festival, to date, the brightest one in the fall sky I say Thank You! – Mark Teckenbrock

p.s. To see names in lights go to www.sewardfestival.com and look on the sponsors page!!

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