Discovering a New Setting for the Third Place With Wolf Jett

About this episode

The episode explores the significance of the Albino Skunk Music Festival and the ongoing efforts in festival planning and artist lineup announcements.

Regular listeners of this series will know that there is a certain festival that is near and dear to my heart, the Albino Skunk Music Festival . It is an event that insiders love passionately, and outsiders often puzzle over. What an unusual name! What an unlikely and often under-the-radar roster of artists! As I have said many times before in introducing the festival to a newcomer, I had long been a skeptic before setting foot on the property, at which point it took only minutes to realize that not only would I return to that festival; I would always return to it. As we enter the winter season, we are about as far away from festival season as one can get. But festivals are a year round endeavor -- practically all the spring and early summer festivals next year are already booked, and are rolling out their artist lineups in stages as they promote their events. Usually that means a headliner or a first volley of artists and bands announced in fall and winter, followed by one or two more updates which fill in the rest of the blanks. There is a ton of work going on right now for festivals happening next fall, and onwards to the following year. The teams that plan and staff these…

People in this episode

Host: Joe Kendrick

Guest: Wolf Jett

Topics covered

• music festivals
• event planning
• artist lineups
• cultural events
• community engagement

Keywords

• Albino Skunk Music Festival
• Wolf Jett
• music festivals
• event planning
• artist lineups
• community
• cultural events

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