that is an interesting question Tom... if I remember correctly, you had plenty of heated comments about the line-up from 2006, because it wasn't like the line-up of 2005... apologies if I'm remembering it wrong... apologies as well for this long email... but its gonna take me a bit to describe what I think is an important thing to consider... 2005 was amazing, with amazing music jamms on every stage... and the fact that a number of these artists were able to perform all three days on different stages allowed for them to be able to relax and jamm even more... which is an amazing historical thing to occur... so I understand why people would be upset that 2006 wasn't the same... but I also saw the payment fees for some of these jamms, and I understand why they lost so much money in 2005... putting huge bands, a couple even having 30 performers, on every stage day after day, is not smart for budgetary issues. They lost 250,000 that year. Paxahau built a completely different festival than 2005, but realistically, not many festival promoters would not try to recreate 2005. The music that year cost too much for anyone to be able to sustain it. Paxahau's festival managed to do better than break even, they managed to keep the festival going, and keep it building in the eyes of the world... which we all know, that the instability of the festival from the previous years was making people from the world not go to the festival. Now, its secured for the go-ahead for at least one more year, probably more. Hopefully the future will encourage additions of the bits of the 2005 energy jamms, and combine it with the 2006 Paxahau smart thinking about monetary issues. And hopefully, during the build-up to that time, the world will begin to feel confident in booking their plane tickets to come to this great city. Confidence will encourage growth, growth means more money to put into creating a better and better festival. In my eyes, thats a great thing. Hopefully one day you'll understand and feel the same wa, Tom, and not post a lot of negativity about something that is being created by people who love the city as much as you do.
________________________________ From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 16/08/2006 20:35 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: (313) DEMF On 8/16/06, Svagr, Jodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, Paxahau is doing the fest again this next year. I've got that info. > straight from the source... so... > tom> Rest assured, book your tickets, and feel confident knowing that Memorial Day weekend will have lots of amazing electronic music in Hart Plaza... plus everywehre else in the city too. the question is, will it be amazing like 2005 or amazing like 2006? tom
