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ROB ELLEN
| I've loads to say about the arts scene in the Highlands, but it sometimes feels like you have to be a non-profit making charitable organisation to have any say, or more accurately get any support from the arts funding bodies, so these days I've learned to just go along cutting my own furrow. |
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| 2007 will have opportunities for me doubtless, and will probably be good for business. One option could be if Joe Gibbs doesn't lose his shirt over the Belladrum Festival this year and we can consolidate next year, then we may be in some sort of shape to look at what we might do in 2007. |
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| Joe and I are talking nebulously about options, but the future of the event is in the balance. Again I don't yet see masses of support being offered from the funding bodies for that worthy enterprise at this point, though I know Joe is actively seeking sponsorship and exploring options in the public sector, as an independent professional promoter he seems at this point at least to be in the same situation as I am. |
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| I suggest if you want the professional art promoters (or me in particular) to be excited about 2007 you need to offer some sort of support package designed for the entrepreneurial spirit. I would love to do a songwriters festival for local and travelling troubadours, and/or a Bluegrass Festival – considering the roots of this important and highly influential strand of music can be traced back to the Highlands and many of the tunes even now are the same by different names as fiddle tunes in our tradition. |
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| I would really love to highlight those connections in 2007, and know that it would be hugely popular in the States as well as over here. I fully expect such an event would be seen as a pilgrimage for many lovers of the music world wide, a return to the motherland. I've a name for it already: "May The Circle Be Unbroken". |
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| Offer me some encouragement and I'll get it together, I have the enthusiasm, connections, I have the infrastructure and the energy, I just don't see the opportunity. 2007 maybe different, but I have drawn blanks every time I have approached HI~Arts or any other public funded body to gain funding and a budget to organise such events as an independent promoter. I'm very very open to a precedent being established in 2007! Music Promoter |
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