Back to School...

Outside is getting cooler, the air is crisp and the days are getting shorter. Yes, fall is definitely knocking on our doors. While many families and students prepare for another school year and the familiar rhythms that it brings your local arts organizations are also preparing for another full season of exhilarating, live performing art.

Your friends at The Friends are no exception. We have been working busily over the summer to prepare for you what I believe is one of the most exciting seasons in our history. Over the summer we decided the season theme for the year (in this case its “An Epic Journey Awaits You”), mapped out a “look and feel” that embraced all the concerts for the season and then began plotting out advertisements and direct mail pieces that announced the season’s concerts and theme. This was an extremely creative and fun process but the real fun began when the phone started ringing because the advertisements had done their job!
The tickets, oh the tickets. This is a big part of preparing for a full season of concerts to begin. Tickets typically go on sale for the new season in the spring and then by August it is time to mail out all the orders for the year. All arts organizations go through a mad ticket stuffing frenzy during August to quickly try to get the much-adored tickets out to our patrons. Being new to box office management I found this process to be frantic . Once we got our tickets mailed out I held my breath praying that I did not make any mistakes. I can let out a big sigh of relief now. Tickets are in the hands of our patrons with very few hiccups and now I can anticipate our “Epic Journey” beginning in just a few short weeks. Be sure to join us for the first concert on October 3!