Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival

Would you like to be a part of the 2009 Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival? We will begin accepting applications from performers on Jan. 1, 2009.

Applicants need to fill in and submit an application form, which is available by download from this site. For more about being a performer, check out the performer information page of this site.

Questions? Contact Festival Director Susan Mumma at director@seldoviamusicfestival.org.

You can see all of the photos from this year’s festival in our Festival 2008 Photo Album.

Do you have photos you’ve taken of the festival and posted online? Tag them with “seldoviamusicfestival” and drop a link to them in the comments to this post. Share the fun!

Local papers and the efforts of the festival’s publicity chair, Susan Zerwick, are getting the word out about the festival. Read about us in the Homer Tribune, Longest day brings music to Seldovia, and the Homer News, Seldovia sings with summer music festival.

Updated to add: KBBI has also archived this sound file in their news archives:

06/19/08    12:52p - The small Kachemak Bay community of Seldovia will play host to a wide range of musicians for the annual Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival which begins Friday night and runs through Saturday night.      KBBI’s Mike Mason
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Want to download your own copy of the program pamphlet that we hand out at the festival? Now you can. It’s a 187 kb .pdf file and if the order of the pages looks odd, it’s because it’s meant to be printed out and folded into a booklet. The festival schedule insert page is a separate file, also a pdf.

If you don’t need a printed copy, remember that all of the program information is on the Program and Supporters pages of this website as well.

It’s time to start setting up the school Commons for the festival. Setup help is needed. If you don’t get a call from one of the setup leads but have time to lend a hand, please contact director@seldoviamusicfestival.org.

The stage is already up, but Tobben Spurkland is in charge of moving and setting up the infamous canvas backdrop flats. If you can help out or if you helped out in the past couple years and remember how they went together (yeah, sorry about not recording that better), please contact him.

Stage decorating and setting up of chairs and the gates will be at 10 am on Monday, June 9. This is another time when more willing hands make some tedious work opening and lining up all those metal folding chairs a lot lighter. No need to sign up: just join us at the main school door on Monday.

Festival Director Susan Mumma is hard at work on the workshop schedule. We’ve posted a preliminary version on the Program page, but it’s likely that there may still be some changes: we have a few more workshop topics to squeeze in and we may juggle the room assignments around a bit yet. But this gives you an idea of some of the great things in store for you on the festival Saturday afternoon.

Remember: workshop admission is included in the full festival pass, or you can pay for just a single workshop at a time. For more information, check the Tickets page.

This month the regular Arts Council meeting will be held early and devoted entirely to working on this year’s festival.

The meeting will be held Monday at 7 pm in the Seldovia Public Library.

This meeting isn’t just for members. Anyone who can lend a hand with the festival or who can contribute to its staging is very much welcome. Please join us.

Thanks for hanging in with us while we have been moving hither and yon about the internet. This is our new and, we hope, permanent location at an easy-to-remember address.

We’ve moved all of the content over from our most recent temporary site, so feel free to look around through the menu items above or the topics listed under the “More” header in the sidebar to the left. We haven’t updated the links to our site in the posts earlier than this one, but will simply go forward and wing it through the confusion.

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There’s more information about the festival here at our new home—just look at those rows of links across the top and in our lefthand sidebar. Our archives remain intact and you can revisit past festivals using the archive tab above.

One of the features of this new site we want to especially highlight is the many ways you can keep up with news about the festival. Sure, you can come here as often as you like to read what we’ve added. But to stay current without that effort and to be sure you don’t miss anything important and timely, check out the options on our subscribe page—we think you’ll find some of them to be pretty handy.

And one last note, about the comment feature. We’re happy to have your comments here. We especially love it when you tell us all about your experiences at the festival (we’ll have a feature just for that in our annual festival wrap-up post). But just to let you know, we value civil discourse and will be deleting any comments that are spam, commercial links, or just plain rude.