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Topic: Britt Member Forum / Double your tax benefit

When you’re renewing your Britt membership this year, consider a matching gift to the Oregon Cultural Trust. The Trust is an innovative funding mechanism that helps strengthen cultural organizations throughout Oregon. Once you have made a donation to Britt and match that amount to the Trust, you receive a 100% tax credit on your Oregon tax return and an additional deduction on your Federal return. It’s a win-win! Visit their web site at http://www.culturaltrust.org for more information.

Topic: Britt Member Forum / Exciting new benefit

As you’ll see in your membership information, we’re adding an incentive for early renewal. If you renew your 2009 Britt membership by January 5, your complimentary tickets (for Clef Club members and up) can be used for any concert, subject to availability. As long as there are still tickets available for the concert you’re requesting, you’ll be able to apply your comp tickets!

Topic: Britt Member Forum / Member survey results-top benefit

When we asked you to rank member benefits on the survey, the top choice was purchasing tickets before the general public. Priority processing for reserved seats was the second choice, and discount coupons applied toward tickets came in third. Does this ring true for you?

Topic: Britt Member Forum / Member survey results

This summer, we emailed a survey to 1745 members, and 470 completed it. We asked questions why you are a Britt member, which benefits are important to you, and your overall experience being a Britt member. When we asked “What are the main reasons you are a Britt member,” the two top responses were “to support the music/artists/entertainment value” and “to support the Britt experience.” What do you think—why are you a Britt member?

Topic: Suggestion Box / Who do you want to see in 2009 at Britt?

I’d love to see Al Stewart (The Year of the Cat), or perhaps acoustic guitar wizard Tommy Emmanuel. Loreena McKennit would also be a great performance.

Topic: Announcements / Britt Classical Festival Announcement

The 2009 Classical Festival lineup of programs and artists is here! Check out the information under the “Performances & Tickets” or “Classical Festival” tabs

Topic: Announcements / Britt Classical Festival Announcement

The 2009 Britt Classical Festival will be announced Monday, November 10.

Topic: Questions for Britt Festivals / peter cincotti

would like to see peter cincotti at britt

Topic: Announcements / When will the 2009 season be announced?

The 2009 season Classical Season will be announced November 1, 2008 and the full 2009 season will be announced in March, 2009- stay tuned!

Topic: Questions for Britt Festivals / How many attended last year?

In 2008, we had nearly 69,000 attend all of our concerts (including our three concerts at the Lithia Motors Amphitheater in Central Point).

This season, we had six sell-out concerts; a couple of those didn’t sell out until the night of the concert. At the Britt Pavilion in Jacksonville, the capacity is 2200. Every night is a little bit different!

Parking can be a challenge if the concert is sold out, or nearly sold out. Take a look at our Venue Info page to see a driving and parking map, with some parking lots noted.

Let us know if you have any other questions! Sara King Cole-Britt Festivals

Topic: Suggestion Box / Who do you want to see in 2009 at Britt?

Mark Erelli and/or Lori McKenna, The New Agrarians. More acts that would be wonderful to see at Britt!

Topic: Questions for Britt Festivals / How many attended last year?

Hi, I’m new to the Britt Fest, looks great, but I am wondering how many people attended last year?

Are the shows pretty much sold out? What is an average night like?

Is parking an issue?

Topic: Suggestion Box / Who do you want to see in 2009 at Britt?

Kasey Chambers, Willy Porter, Nanci Griffith, Crooked Still…just to name a few artists who would be great to see at Britt!

Topic: Announcements / Raffle winner announced!

Congratulations to Ed Gordon of Klamath Falls, the winner of the 2008 Britt raffle! Ed wins a pair of reserved tickets to every concert in the 2009 season, plus reserved parking!

This season there were 15,000 chances available at $1 each, and all proceeds support Britt programs. The winner was drawn at The Black Crowes concert on Sunday, September 7.

Topic: Suggestion Box / What can we do better next year?

Hi

Each year i share a membership with friends-sometimes at the $600 level and sometimes at the $1000 level[usually based on what kind of a seasom it looks like it is going to be] we also want to support britt as well as look at what britt is doing for us-i.e. value we get for the money spent on our membership. For the big name concerts we cannot usually use our ‘free’’ tickets and in terms of bang for our buck we get to choose freebies from a variety of $30 and $40 seats-my suggestion would be to look at possibly using the coupons as $50 or $60 coupons good toward any show we want to use it for-i for one would buy more tickets for more shows and be a $1000 member every year. thanks for hearing me out. tom harrington

Topic: Suggestion Box / What can we do better next year?

Have any suggestions on how we can make your experience at Britt better next season?

Topic: Suggestion Box / Who do you want to see in 2009 at Britt?

Tell us who you would like us to bring to Britt in 2009.

Topic: Announcements / Change in opening act for The Black Crowes

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, originally scheduled to open for The Black Crowes, have cancelled. L.A.-based blues/rock band Carney will replace them. For more information, visit http://carneytheband.com

Topic: Announcements / Chat with G. Love tomorrow

Here’s your chance! Log in tomorrow – Wednesday, September 3 – at 3:15 p.m. to chat with G. Love in preparation for his September 5 performance at Britt.
http://www.brittfest.org/chats

Topic: Fan's Lounge / Program Cut Short

Hi again—I checked with our Director of Programming and Production Mike Sturgill, who assured me that the artist management was informed of our 10:30 p.m. curfew. As you know, every performance at Britt is subject to a 10:30 p.m. curfew, through our agreement with the City of Jacksonville. Dar Williams’ set was a few minutes shorter than the time we’d allowed for, which made a slightly longer intermission than usual. Judy Collins performed a 90-minute set, as she was scheduled to do. We apologize for the unexpectedly abrupt ending to the concert, and are sorry that this left you disappointed. We’ll continue to communicate our time constraints with our artists, and hope that your experience doesn’t prevent you from enjoying another concert at Britt.

Topic: Fan's Lounge / Program Cut Short

Thanks for writing. I’m sorry for your disappointment in the ending of the concert, and am checking with our production crew to find out why it was so abrupt. -Sara King Cole, Britt Festivals

Topic: Fan's Lounge / Program Cut Short

I was very disappointed in the way the Britt Festival handled the program for Judy Collins and Dar Williams. Both performers were excellent and made the evening enjoyable. But! the way in which the Britt Festival handled the break between the sets (40 minutes) meant that the 10:30 curfew for the program cut short the performance of Judy Collins. It appeared that Ms. Collins was not informed for the curfew and due to the lengthy break was not allowed the fully complete her performance. I felt that the program was cut short and the conclusion of the program left a pall on an otherwise wonderful evening. The only thing I could liken the event too would be to have gone to a three part play and then being asked to leave halfway through the third act. I would like to reiterate that both performers were wonderful but I feel that the management of the venue by the Britt Festival left me very frustrated.

Topic: Fan's Lounge / Show Your Love for G. Love!

Win a pair of lawn tickets to G. Love and Special Sauce in concert with John Butler Trio and Tristan Prettyman! All you have to do is post your most creative way to show your love for G. Love & Special Sauce on the comments section of Britt’s MySpace Page. It can be a drawing, sign, poster, video, t-shirt or bumper sticker. Whatever you do to show your love, please make sure to keep it clean. We will announce the winner on our MySpace page on Wednesday, Sept. 3 at noon. So, show us how much you love G. Love!

Topic: Fan's Lounge / Worst ticket buying experience

Hi Quincy,
Sorry you had such a bad experience! We are always working toward improving our patrons’ experience. I will send your email address to our box office manager, so she can get in touch with you regarding your tickets.
Thanks,
Sara King Cole, Britt Festivals

Topic: Fan's Lounge / Worst ticket buying experience

This web site is the worst ticket buying site I have ever experienced. It would be SOOOOOOO easy to improve it! Meanwhile … did I buy tickets or not?