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Originally Posted by mobertol
Great idea - totally agree -should involve local products , people, history and shop-keepers...Keep it up-market, get good local sponsorship...hope Leon is up to the task.
Sorry to bang on abut Cremona but it's where i live. We had a well-known home grown celeb. footballer Gianluca Vialli to pubblicise the event , a celebrity Chef, Music, culture, lots of entertainment - The whole festival lasted a weekend including the lights being switched on...Accy has all the ingredients -great historic backdrop etc -just needs some-one with vision to get a hold of the reins...
Take a look at link to see photos etc of the Festival in Cremona which took place last weekend. Lots of street entertainers around town finished off the whole thing...
Just seen G's post which overlaps mine -go back to tradition -that's what people want in difficult times -things that have stood the test of time...
Festa del Torrone di Cremona 2011 |
Agreed, and that's down to the lack of vision by anyone on the council. Not down to the person they've somewhat lazily passed the event over to. Who I'm sure is doing his best, but running a bar and a nightclub act, isn't really the experience that's needed to turn this event into a must see destination.
It is funded from the public purse, and at times when we are seeing cuts in public services, people have the right to question if the benefits outweigh the considerable costs involved.
We've already had one town centre business owner post it wasn't worth him staying open financially, the night of the event.
A nice night out for the neddies, bouncing along to dance anthems from a couple of decades ago, but not really an event that attracts the whole comunity, or even something that's particularly Christmassy, in a traditional sense.