Post by itrainmonkeys on Jun 25, 2010 10:00:04 GMT -5
Some new "nateva in the news" stuff......this discusses the muddy hill thing
OXFORD, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Preparations for the Nateva Music and Camping Festival, which will take over the Oxford Fairgrounds for 4th of July weekend, are moving forward.
"This venue is going to be awesome. We are set up for everything here. Camping, music, activities. We are pretty excited," said festival promoter Frank Chandler. "I don't see a problem with this venue, no. Never did."
Rumors that the on-site camping areas are too muddy to use have been circulating in published reports and on-line forums. Organizers say they have received calls and e-mails from concerned ticket holders in recent weeks, asking if the venue will be ready for the anticipated crush of 15,000 concertgoers.
"There is no reason on earth why everybody who bought an on-site camping ticket wont' be able to camp here," stated Chandler. "I am not sure how that rumor began, or where it came from, or where it is going, but we've sold tickets for on-site camping for on-site camping spots that we have."
Chandler suspects that the misinformation stems from issues with a construction project on the fairgrounds which ran into some problems, but is unrelated to the festival.
The association which runs the fair grounds cleared some trees from a hill adjacent to the harness track and some groundwater and run-off from a storm was not retained on the site.
Chandler admits that once the hill was cleared, he did seek to have camping available on it, but says he has not received permission to use the site as an additional camping area.
"The hill is not an issue, the hill is an imaginary issue," he said. "The hill was a wooded piece of land when we made these plans. We put together our camping numbers, we put together our festival plans, all the event plans were designed without taking into account the hill, because the hill was not cleared at that time."
The first-ever Nateva Music and Camping Festival will span four days and bring about 60 local and national acts to the region. The fair association says they need to host more events than just the fair to keep the fairgrounds running.
"Smaller fairs, or agricultural fairs, it's kind of a dying thing in our area," said Suzanne Grover, president of the Oxford County Agricultural Society. "We have lost all our big farms and so forth, so we are trying to still have a county fair, still have a nice fair to show agriculture and teach agriculture, but also to make it so it is financially stable."
"We need jobs, these people are hiring. We need something in western Maine and maybe this is the start of something that is going to be bigger," added Grover. "It is a huge community effort and I hope everybody embraces it, enjoys it and wants them to come back."
Source: www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=119389&catid=2
OXFORD, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Preparations for the Nateva Music and Camping Festival, which will take over the Oxford Fairgrounds for 4th of July weekend, are moving forward.
"This venue is going to be awesome. We are set up for everything here. Camping, music, activities. We are pretty excited," said festival promoter Frank Chandler. "I don't see a problem with this venue, no. Never did."
Rumors that the on-site camping areas are too muddy to use have been circulating in published reports and on-line forums. Organizers say they have received calls and e-mails from concerned ticket holders in recent weeks, asking if the venue will be ready for the anticipated crush of 15,000 concertgoers.
"There is no reason on earth why everybody who bought an on-site camping ticket wont' be able to camp here," stated Chandler. "I am not sure how that rumor began, or where it came from, or where it is going, but we've sold tickets for on-site camping for on-site camping spots that we have."
Chandler suspects that the misinformation stems from issues with a construction project on the fairgrounds which ran into some problems, but is unrelated to the festival.
The association which runs the fair grounds cleared some trees from a hill adjacent to the harness track and some groundwater and run-off from a storm was not retained on the site.
Chandler admits that once the hill was cleared, he did seek to have camping available on it, but says he has not received permission to use the site as an additional camping area.
"The hill is not an issue, the hill is an imaginary issue," he said. "The hill was a wooded piece of land when we made these plans. We put together our camping numbers, we put together our festival plans, all the event plans were designed without taking into account the hill, because the hill was not cleared at that time."
The first-ever Nateva Music and Camping Festival will span four days and bring about 60 local and national acts to the region. The fair association says they need to host more events than just the fair to keep the fairgrounds running.
"Smaller fairs, or agricultural fairs, it's kind of a dying thing in our area," said Suzanne Grover, president of the Oxford County Agricultural Society. "We have lost all our big farms and so forth, so we are trying to still have a county fair, still have a nice fair to show agriculture and teach agriculture, but also to make it so it is financially stable."
"We need jobs, these people are hiring. We need something in western Maine and maybe this is the start of something that is going to be bigger," added Grover. "It is a huge community effort and I hope everybody embraces it, enjoys it and wants them to come back."
Source: www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=119389&catid=2
