The Carlsbad Music Festival has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $10,000 in 30 days to help fund the September 20-22, 2013 10th Anniversary Festival. The Kickstarter campaign runs from June 16th to July 16th at midnight.
As of Friday they have raised almost $1700.
Due to recent changes in local government funding, the Carlsbad Music Festival will no longer be receiving an expected contribution for the 2013 Festival. To make up this funding shortfall, the Festival has turned to Kickstarter to ask the community to contribute to bringing the Festival back to Carlsbad in the fall of 2013. Pledges to the campaign will ensure that the Festival will continue bring amazing, adventurous music to Carlsbad, with many free performances in addition to paid concerts including the Village Music Walks, concerts in Magee Park, and educational outreach events in the Carlsbad Schools.
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The Carlsbad Music Festival is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit that supports adventurous music through a yearly festival in the charming seaside Village of Carlsbad. The Festival was founded in 2003 by composer, violinist and Carlsbad native, Matt McBane, and has been praised by local and national media including the Los Angeles Times, which called the festival “magnificently enlightening.” In 2010, the Festival won the national ASCAP Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming and in 2012 and 2013 the Festival was awarded prestigious Artworks Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Festival has become a nationally significant facilitator and presenter of some of the most interesting creative music being composed and performed today.
The Carlsbad Music Festival recently held a Village Walk on June 21st, to join in the worldwide celebration of music that takes place each year on the Summer Solstice. The Village Walk featured over 40 performances by local musicians in 11 different venues within the Village of Carlsbad. The event was a great success with over 2000 people in attendance and was featured as the critics pick for the weekend in the Los Angeles Times, The UT San Diego and San Diego City Beat.
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To donate or learn more about the Kickstarter campaign go to: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1121542737/carlsbad-music-festivals-10th-anniversary-season
–Information from a Carlsbad Music Festival Press Release
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