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Musician’s Union Statement on Jazz Festival

Tuesday, 19th August, 2008 at 12:56 pm, Isle of Wight

Music, Ventnor

Musician's Union One group who might be pleased to hear the latest decision taken by the Ventnor Town Council over the Jazz festival may be the Musician’s Union.

The Musician’s Union tell us that they are considering taken action against the organisers, Ward and Snellen if unpaid debts are not dealt with.

They provided VentnorBlog with this statement at the end of last week.

We are concerned that the 2009 festival is being planned without all of this year’s acts reportedly having been paid, and the MU will be looking into this further with a view to taking action if required.

We’ll be asking the MU for a statement on the news that the Winter Gardens have voted unanimously not to deal with Ward and Snellen and will let you have it as soon as we hear back.

For those concerned that this decision means there will be no more jazz festivals, fear not. We understand that there are several people who are very keen to continue the jazz festivals in Ventnor and we’ll be bringing you more news on that soon.

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4 Responses to “Musician’s Union Statement on Jazz Festival”

  1. Click if you like this comment musoactivator     says:
    19, August 2008 at 3:13 pm

    Would be a shame to lose it.

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  2. Click if you like this comment JazzFan     says:
    21, August 2008 at 3:53 am

    A Festival which loses money cannot be sustained.
    If it is not popular enough to pay it’s way of course it will be “lost”.
    If it HAS made money – why are there so many outstanding debts ?

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  3. Click if you like this comment musoactivator     says:
    21, August 2008 at 10:49 am

    Depends on how robust it was run really. Need’nt have so many ‘names.’

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  4. Click if you like this comment JazzFan     says:
    21, August 2008 at 4:45 pm

    There weren’t really many “names” in 2008 and that hasn’t stopped the debts being added to.
    A Festival (perhaps on a smaller scale) would be great and SHOULD be sustainable but the problem that remains is the current organisers who seem to be incapable of making it pay.

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