The Rotary Club was pleased to welcome the Executive Director of the Music Festival, Delynne Lorentzen to our meeting today. Delynne has served as our ED for over 5 years now, and is encouraged by the renewed interest in participation.
Delynee provided a brief update on attendance at the upcoming (March 4 - 17) Rotary Music Festival. She indicated that our participation is recovering after the shock of the COVID pandemic, and she is hoping for around 600 individual performances during the 2 weeks of Festival. She was also very happy to provide the news that we are expecting 11 school bands to perform, 7 choirs, and 7 musical theatre groups.
She has a great group of adjudicators lined up and is looking forward to a very successful festival. She is particularly encouraged by the number of junior level performers who are entered. That bodes very well for the future.
Delynne provided some great slides of past participants and told some great stories about their work and their success. Several members of the club also stood up and spoke about how the Festival had impacted their families. She also advised the club of a number of last minute, volunteer opportunities that have arisen as the Festival gets near, and she was able to sign up most of the duties. Thanks to everyone who will help out!
Delynne was thanked by President Bruce Shepard on behalf of the whole club, for her exemplary work on this showpiece of our Community Service.