[mplpost] Quotas at festivals

[Joe Burns]

This guy is pulling our legs a bit, but it's one of those things where there
is more truth than joke here. I can't think of very many people in this
country who have much more experience with festivals, etc, that this dude.



----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Flohil <rflohil@inforamp.net>
To: <maplepost@icomm.ca>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 2:57 PM
Subject: [mplpost] Quotas at festivals


> Of course there are quotas at festivals.  In no particular order, here are
> some of the things every festival needs.
>
> 1) You need an equal number of men and women, and a transgendered person
> would be a bonus.
>
> 2) You need to have some "visible minorities."
>
> 3) You need people who do blues. (see 2)
>
> 4) You need people who are instrumental virtuosi.
>
> 5) You need good singer songwriters.
>
> 6) You need some world music bands, preferably from Africa, usually via
> Paris. (see 2)
>
> 7) You need traditional singers with fingers in their ears.  Extra points
> for Morris dancing
>   teams with jingly bells on their ankles. (I remember one team who
> had a black
> member - see 2 again)
>
> 8) You need at least two good MCs, and they should NOT be with the local
> radio station.
> A CBC Radio personality, however, is a major bonus.
>
> 9) You most definitely need The Richard Flohil/Micheal Wrycraft Folk
> Festival Quiz,
> Game Show, and Beer Tent Filler, which needs a) two teams of four
> performers
>   each and b) an audience.
>
> 10) You need a light hearted performer who can make you cry (call Nancy
> White, call
> Nancy White).
>
> 11) You need people from Quebec, The Yukon, Saskatoon, and Newfoundland,
> just to
> start with. Quebec singers in French are not counted under
> Papragraph 6.
>
> 12) You need some righteous rockin' music for the volunteers' party.
>
> 13) You need to have at least 2/3rds Canadian performers.
>
> 14) You've got to have Aboriginals.
>
> 15) You need two  major headliners.  Probably (and preferably, in Canada),
> American.
>
> 16) You need at least one folk artist who has been around for ever and
ever.
>
> 17) You need a bunch of young hotties who can actually sing (Martina
> Sorbara and
> Danny Michel come to mind, but they played everywhere last year)
>
> 18) You need at least one "women's artist", preferably an out Lesbian.
Out
> gay males are
>   not necessary.
>
> 19)  You need at least two singers from Texas.
>
> 20) You need a shit-hot country band with folk leanings. (Could be
included
> as part of 19).
>
> 21) You need people who can do at least four or five different kinds of
music.
>
> 22) You need a gospel group (must be black) for Sunday morning. (see 2
again)
>
> Er, that's enough for the moment.  But if I had been the artistic director
> who had hired 20 men and 30 women, I'd have told Marie Lynn that I was
over
> quota, politically incorrect as that may have been...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
> (who, in case some humourless person is reading this, wants to assure them
> that his tongue is still lodged in his cheek...)
>
>
>
>
>

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