This past July 27th, as the final chord died away at the end of the last concert of the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival, festival-goers lingered around, heaping praise on a hit 33rd season. For this very reason and many more, the Festival’s Board of Directors wishes to thank our generous sponsors and contributors, our talented artists, our devoted audiences, our hard-working new artistic director, Mathieu Lussier, our tireless volunteers, and our now-retired founder, Mathieu Duguay, whose vision lives on .
Board members usually spend the whole year planning, scheming, cajoling, talking, adjusting, and generally working hard to ensure the next season comes to fruition and meets with eager anticipation and resounding success. Much money is needed to ensure ticket prices are kept affordable while securing top-quality musicians and singers. This money comes from generous businesses and individuals, from governments and, to a much lesser extent, from ticket sales. Our biggest challenge each year as Festival board members is competing for funds with other provincial or regional events.
Yet we always find this challenge and our hard work all year to be worth it: seeing the glint of hungry happiness in the eye of our festival-goers is reward enough. Well, almost. The truth is, we still need you to help us carry the torch and prosper. You are still wondering about attending one of our concerts? Bite the bullet : you will not regret it! You attended one of our concerts and loved it? Tell your friends! You are expecting visitors from out-of-town next summer? Bring them to one of our concerts! Your business is doing well and you have money left over? Send some our way and make other people happy! Because in the end, this Festival is your Festival. Period.
Mr. Jean Desrosiers, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival
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