Great job! That is a lot of work for one day’s hurrah, I hope you can bask in the accomplishment for a bit longer. (I hate events like this, because they take SO much work and then it all is over so fast, or is at so much risk, like of getting rained out…so I really appreciate those who are able to do it, and pull it off, it takes a specific type of stamina that I don’t possess.)
Event planning is about the only thing where I start using religious language for my gratitude when things work out! #blessed! **cackle** The Saturday before it was 107 degrees. Next Saturday is expected to be above 100 again. But this weekend a cool wind came through and dropped the temps to 95 degrees on Friday and 90 degrees on Saturday with a light breeze and puffy-clouds! It was the absolute perfect weather and that alone was a big part of the success of the event.
Event planning and production scheduling really is a sprinting sort of task. Months of planning, organizing, and preparation for a couple days/weeks of breakneck work.
It fulfills that part of me that wanted to be a 911/emergency services operator... but not a 911 operator full-time.
That’s the thing that undoes me! You did all the work: the venues, the crews, the bands, the gear, the marketing campaigns, the people-wrangling…and then you could have had that 107-degree weather, totally out of your control, and had only a few brave souls willing to come out and sweat through it, and then it *looks* like the event is a bomb, and the bands are disappointed and the sponsors disappointed and so much letdown to wrangle, and yet you still would have put in the same amount of planning effort and energy (and even more, on the day-of!) And all the poor results would be Not Your Fault…I just…I can’t stand that part. I like projects where we have a whole extended time frame for the payoff…I really do take my hat off in admiration, and I’m so glad you got the weather you deserved, and the satisfaction of seeing it all come together like magic, and the chance to enjoy how #blessed 🤭🤭 you really were. This way, you get ALL the credit! Brava.
I was heartened by some visiting friends from within The Industry who let me know that although my job title might be a lowly "coordinator" (x2... since I have two coordinator titles.. in my title) that in Hollywood, my main position would be considered a "managing producer" based on my responsibilities.
Thank you for the kind congratulations, because it really does feel like stars aligned to allow it to be what it was, and for all the work to pay off.
Congratulations! I have only a sense from organizing MUCH SMALLER events (and from hearing EldestSister talk about it) how much work that must have been, and to have a health crisis literally days before is like... yikes.
They were thanking a woman who organized the Allison Russell concert (and the whole series of which it is a part) and I thought of you. She started out doing house shows (and still does) then found this wonderful historic farm as a venue (wow, one missing space puts you in the middle of the street!). The last show of their tenth season, she deserves to feel proud. And so do you!
I think it would be so much fun to get up to the festival level organizing these things... even if I'm a little worried my head would explode!
Congrats on your own experiences, and Elder Sister who is doing cool things! It's a lot of fun and not something I thought I would be doing professionally.. but here I am!
It was all under control... I was perfectly poised and balanced and focused for the concert to close out my production schedule, but losing two teeth very suddenly just 3 days before!?!?! I was KNOCKED OUT by that! In the end I'm finding a lot of comfort that I threw out lots of my collected baskets of Give a Fucks when that happened (too busy crying for a day and half or so...)... and it still worked out pretty smoothly. Phew!
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The Saturday before it was 107 degrees.
Next Saturday is expected to be above 100 again.
But this weekend a cool wind came through and dropped the temps to 95 degrees on Friday and 90 degrees on Saturday with a light breeze and puffy-clouds! It was the absolute perfect weather and that alone was a big part of the success of the event.
Event planning and production scheduling really is a sprinting sort of task. Months of planning, organizing, and preparation for a couple days/weeks of breakneck work.
It fulfills that part of me that wanted to be a 911/emergency services operator... but not a 911 operator full-time.
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Thank you for the kind congratulations, because it really does feel like stars aligned to allow it to be what it was, and for all the work to pay off.
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I am so proud of you. Glad it went well and hoping you are resting on your laurels today. Wish I could have been there!
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Congratulations! I have only a sense from organizing MUCH SMALLER events (and from hearing EldestSister talk about it) how much work that must have been, and to have a health crisis literally days before is like... yikes.
They were thanking a woman who organized the Allison Russell concert (and the whole series of which it is a part) and I thought of you. She started out doing house shows (and still does) then found this wonderful historic farm as a venue (wow, one missing space puts you in the middle of the street!). The last show of their tenth season, she deserves to feel proud. And so do you!
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Congrats on your own experiences, and Elder Sister who is doing cool things!
It's a lot of fun and not something I thought I would be doing professionally.. but here I am!
It was all under control... I was perfectly poised and balanced and focused for the concert to close out my production schedule, but losing two teeth very suddenly just 3 days before!?!?! I was KNOCKED OUT by that!
In the end I'm finding a lot of comfort that I threw out lots of my collected baskets of Give a Fucks when that happened (too busy crying for a day and half or so...)... and it still worked out pretty smoothly.
Phew!
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