Plans & Dreams
New Haven Folk has plans to cooperate with and benefit other folk music venues throughout our state. Such plans include encouraging advance ticket sales by selling tickets via the Web, cross-promotion of events, the promotion of a performance circuit and other cooperative booking arrangements, combined sponsorship enrollment activities, and small grants for improving the performance conditions. See information about the other major Connecticut folk venues at our portal site, ctfolk.org.
Likewise, a high priority is the creation of new performance opportunities for local and regional folk artists, which will lead in turn to increased sales of their recordings and increasing numbers of the best artists able to "make a go" of professional folk singing. Including both the annual Festival and the concert series, New Haven Folk provides nearly thirty superb new performance opportunities for local and regional singer/ songwriters and folk groups each year, opening for "headliner" folk artists brought to New Haven for the concert series. We can also assist in the sale of their recordings, via our events and our Website, and can seek other ways to promote their work.
As a symbol of the principle that folk artists deserve success, no artist is asked to donate his/her performance to the Festival: every artist, however new, is paid a performance fee.
We want to hear more radio air devoted to local artists, we want less costly ways for local artists to produce CDs in small quantities, and we want more and better outlets for the sale of those CDs and MP3s. We can even originate a "Top 100 Folk Artists" in the state to help folk fans and venues learn about worthy folk artists they may not yet have encountered.
In the "Long Range Plans and Dreams" Department, we are discussing ways to build folk-friendly institutions that extend the values of the Festival and monthly concerts. One way down the road could be a folk-themed public Charter School. Another could be a folk-and-good-talk listener-supported radio station that complements the programming of WPKN, WNHU, WSHU, and the other non-commercial stations that offer at least some folk music and other progressive programming.
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New Haven Folk, Inc.
producer of the Connecticut Folk Festival and Green Expo
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Last updated: 6-January-2008