3 weeks until opening night

Well, three weeks to go and things are getting mega busy here – typical that the weather is grogeous and sunny just when I’m having to spend all day locked to my computer! Although its great to see the sunshine, in a way I want it to rain soon so that we’re more likely to have a nice hot dry spell during the festival! It just makes everything so much nicer, especially the outdoor events.
Jane, our lovely artist liason officer is definitely willing sunshine to come – on the night of the last night of the proms she is going to have 100 plus artists to look after – what with the choir and the orchestra, so if its rainy its going to be a bit of a squash in the green room during the interval!!

Bryony has been on radio Leeds this morning discussing the world record bunting attempt and hopefully Look North are coming up to preview it next week at a Bunting Party at the Yorkshire Lass. There’s every chance we could beat the record with flags coming in thick and fast, so please if you read this – do keep on cutting out those triangles! I’m having a recce round the village this morning to try and figure out where we should hang it from. Lots of discussion over this!!
Also we now have an extra date for the lunch and cookery demo at The Angel – the first one sold out in minutes would you believe (yes, I would – it’ll be fab) so we have added another date on the 23rd June.
Thats all for now.. .got to get back to the laptop…. the garden will have to wait until July!!

Last few weeks….

It was the final festival meeting last night – chacking we havent forgotten anything and making sure everything is in place. As usual quite a few laughs although not as many as at the last meeting during the wine tasting!

Helen and Sarah had a bunting competition during the meeting – two very different methods – Helen managed 150 by the end of the meeting. Much discussion about how we were going to manage actually getting the bunting up. I had to finally curb my control freak instincts and agree that we’d put it up on the Tuesday before the festival when I couldnt be there!! how on earth am I going to cope with that? The answer is I probably wont – I wont be able to resist nipping out of the last Festival Chorus rehearsal to see whats going on!

Anyway we all left the meeting on a high and very excited about all thats going on this year – it should be fun fun fun!!!!

See you there!

Roll Up Roll up!

The box office opened this week on Monday (last Friday online), this is always a nreve wracking time – will people like this years programme and want to come to the events we’ve so carefully planned. Scary! Well it seems they do, some events always sell more quickly than others and this year it seems Fascinating Aida and Ross Noble are the runaways, although the lunch and cookery demonstration sold out straightaway.
The Grassington Festival crowd must be a hungry bunch who enjoy a good laugh!
Gill is now running the box office like a well-oiled machine and all is calm and unhurried, with everyone knowing exactly what to do and when to do it. We rely on a small volunteer army to help man the phone, do the filing and post off tickets, so a big thanks to those who have been willing to give up their time to help. And thanks to Claire Gains for bringing in biscuits and chocolates to keep up the spirits!
Its still worth booking in good time for your festival events as things are selling well, so we look forward to hearing from you and if you have any questions there’s always someone on the end of the phone who can help (or who knows a someone who can!)