Carol Marvin represented herself as a professional event planner. She'd done some big events, but they were, from my reading, the same sort of success/disaster that her version of DEMF became. I'm not sure we should even bring her up again, any more than we have.
There really aren't many people in the US, much less Detroit, who knows how to make a festival like this go smoothly, year after year. But leaving that aside, this is about money. The biggest crime against the festival is that the businesses and companies in Detroit who make big money from the Festival, and yet won't write a check to sponsor it. You'd think that the experience of the festival over the past six years -- large crowds, little or no trouble, the international draw it has become -- would have put a lightbulb over someone's head by now. But no.... But even as Saunderson said "if we'd had things ready to go in November, we could have promoted it properly," it raises the question, why wasn't this discussed and settled six months ago? What happens this year will be interesting. What if they didn't give a festival, and everyone came? It won't be no 40,000, but it's a holiday weekend in Detroit, there's bound to be something good happening. I've got my reservation -- I'm tempted to come just to hang out even if there's no festival. On 2/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey this all is just so typical and sad, makes me wonder if maybe carol > marvin was > the right person to do this festival, you know a professional event person.
