Festival Lessons Learned 

During a Pandemic Written By Dale and Darcy Cahill The pandemic has now been with us for almost two years. While it completely shut down the 2020 festival season, its grip loosened in the Spring of 2021 and festival promoters were faced with tough decisions. Should they have their festival at all? If yes, what changes would they need to make to hold a safe event? How would they respond to the unpredictable state mandates? Some promoters did indeed decide to cancel their festivals this summer, but others found creative ways to handle the constantly evolving COVID protocols and regulations. We spoke with some of those promoters, and they shared with us the challenges of pre-festival planning, the real time execution of those plans and how they will apply lessons learned to the 2022 season ahead. Here is what they had to say. Summergrass San Diego Yvonne Tatar and her husband Mike are promoters for Summergrass San Diego, held in San Diego for the past eighteen years during mid