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Show Wednesday, August 23, 1978 4 Page 9 Throngs Take In Sights, Sounds and Tastes Of Festival 1 By Conrad Elliott For two days last weekend thousands of visitors from across Utah, indeed the nation, crowded Park City's Main Street taking in the sights, sounds and tastes of the Park City Arts Festival. Estimates of the total number num-ber of people attending the festival will not be available from the Park City Chamber of Commerce until next week, but the crowds were large, perhaps the largest ever. The very size of the crowds led to some of the few complaints com-plaints heard about the festival that the bus lines were too long and the traffic too slow. Even foot traffic on Main Street was slowed to a trickle when such crowd pleasers as Andy Monaco or the Aziz Yallah-Am belly dancing troupe attracted groups of people that spanned span-ned the street. There seemed to be general agreement among return festival visitors that the art work, food booths and performances were of a higher quality than those of any past festival. "The art work is great, better than ever, especially the pottery," said Gayle Jones, a veteran of five festivals and a member of two past festival organizing committees. The artists also were pleased with the organization of the festival. Terry and Kristy Heck-man, Heck-man, two ceramists from Texas, said the Park City festival proved to be the best they have attended in the four years they have been going to art fairs. "There have been no hassles at this fair... the promoters have really taken care of us," Terry said. He noted the festival was promoted as are opportunity o to purchase quality art work, l? ,C " SSR Wednesday is LADIES NITE Dinner is Half Price for Ladies! : (Buv one dinner ai reguiur price and the second dinner is Halt price.) Open every night Top of Main not just as a fun event, so people came prepared to buv. Even the weather seemed to cooperate for the most part. Saturday was a cloudless day of comfortable temperatures. A slight rain Sunday lasted only long enough to send festival goers into the Main Street art galleries to look and shop. One Salt Laker who has attended at-tended seven previous festivals probably best summed up this year's art festival when he said, "Like every year, it's a little better than the last one." Crowds Disappointing Though the crowds at the street festival met or exceeded ex-ceeded estimates, the Park City Bluegrass Festival at Treasure Hollow didn't fare as well. About 1,800 tickets were sold to the bluegrass festival only half the number num-ber needed to break even. Good MusiCj Nice Setting By Jay Meehan Better music in a more beautiful setting would be hard to imagine. That seemed seem-ed to be the concensus of opinion emanating from most everyone involved in the Bluegrass portion of the 1978 Park City Arts and Blue-grass Blue-grass Festival. The event, the first of its kind in this area, was staged on the grass of Treasure Hollow above the Park City Resort Center this past Saturday and Sunday, ! f Coming from featured musicians, mu-sicians, promoters, and fans alike, the rave reviews which followed the conclusion conclu-sion of the two-day festival demonstrated an exuberance exuber-ance matched only by the "quaking aspen" leaves which provided the backdrop. back-drop. "Excellent, just excellent," hollered Rodney Dillard after af-ter leaving the stage for the last time late Sunday night. "I sure hope you folks invite us back next year. It's beautiful!" This from Charlie Waller, whose famed "Country Gentlemen" had headlined the festival along with the equally legendary "Dillards." "Glorious! How could you have had better quality music?" quiried Jim Shupe, who, along with his brother Ted and their respective families, promoted and did most of the work on the festival. It takes a musician and music fan to make a comment like that after facing the hard fact that his Beef - Lamb Salad Street. Park City. Utah a! Part of the problem seemed to be a lack of knowledge. Many visitors that came to see the arts festival on Main Street were unaware that the bluegrass festival was taking place at a different locale. "It's evident we're going to take a loss," said Jim Shupe, co-organizer of the bluegrass festival with his brother Ted. "We have to be patient and realize it takes time to build." Patience has paid off for the Shupes in the past. Jim's wife, Shirley Shupe. pointed out that the annual Ugden Golden Spike National Old-Time Old-Time Fiddle IContest was . slow to start when the Shupe family first began to sponsor that event three years ago. Now the contest draws the nation's finest fiddlers from states as far a way as Alaska . Shirley said it is Jim's dream to bring bluegrass music to the people of Utah. Jim first got the idea by attending at-tending the National Old- experiment will most likely cost he and his family in the neighborhood of $7,500 to $10,000. There was one negative involved in the affair, you see. And that was sparse crowds. Less than 2,000 music buffs showed up over the two days. Tuesday afternoon, Jim Shupe refelected on the past weekends events: "You couldn't have a more . beautiful place or location. ; ir.r'At tthis tyear'sr- Telluride Festival you had to sit on rocks and dirt and when the wind blew you couldn't even see the stage. And still they BLM Backs City On Land Use Park City is involved in a two-way tug of war over 90 acres of land north of Deer Valley. This land currently is controlled con-trolled by the Bureau of Land Management but the state, which has the first priority on ownership when the BLM disposes of it, wants wan-ts to sell the land to the highest bidder as a source of revenue. The city, with BLM support, is seeking to persuade per-suade state officials to relinquish their claim and allow the city to develop the property as a campsite. If the state does decide to put the land up for bid, Park City "couldn't compete," according to City Planner David Preece. - Seafood Bar Every Nit e FRESH SNAPPER The fish you order tonight was alive and well in the Pacific yesterday in the Alpine Prospector's Lodge Time Fiddlers' Contest in Weiser, Idaho several years ago. "We're not in this for the money," she said. Mnrifv pointed out that any money made at the Golden Spike Fiddle contest was used to pay expenses and help fund the next year's contest . "We have yet to make a profit off the contest.'' she said. Jim Shupe said his family has been involved lr bluegrass music for generations. Old family fiddle fid-dle tunes were first set to paper by Merle Shupe, Jim's mother. Three generations of Shupes make up the family band, The Shupe Family Fiddlers, that played at the festival. Like Jim Shupe, who played viol: ;.;r the Utah Symphony. .l he family band member-) ire classically trained musicians. Financing the Park City Bluegrass Festival proved got 7,000 people. 'The evenings got a little cold. Maybe we could move it up an hour or so earlier next year, although most of the musicians I talked to said it was traditional at festivals to go at least as late as we did. "I think we learned from the few things that did go wrong this year. Maybe next year we'll try a few different approaches as far as advertising adver-tising and sponsers. ; "I think it was a breakthrough, break-through, however, as far as showing the resort owners Continued on Page 10 Preece met with BLM officials of-ficials last Wednesday to discuss the proposed Gamble Gam-ble Oak Park. Plans for the park were drawn up by former for-mer planning commissioner , Wayne Iverson and Preece said they meet all BLM specifications for use of the land. The BLM does not consider con-sider private development of the 90 acres, as could happen if it is put up for bid, to be the best use of the land, the city planner said Monday. "The BLM supports us." Preece said city officials must pressure state representatives if it entertains enter-tains any hope of obtaining the property. to be an expensive venture for the Shupes. In order to find a sound system that met his high quality requirements requiremen-ts Jim Shupe traveled to Denver. Colorado to contract for equipment and technicians. Only top bluegrass bands, such as The Country Gentlemen, who were flown to Utah from Washington D.C. by the Shupes, were hired to perform. per-form. In order to meet expenses ex-penses volunteers were used to take tickets and patrol the festival grounds for gate crashers. The Shupe family now will formulate plans with the Park City Chamber of Commerce in order to draw more people to next year's bluegrass festival. One possible change, according to Jim Shupe, is to have the music event on different days than the regular arts festival. Whatever changes the Shupes decide to make for the Park City Bluegrass Festival, it is certain that they will try it again. "We're committed," said Shirley. "We'll do it again." Boundary Accord Reached By Boards The Park City and South Summit school boards agreea last week to pursue a boundary change for the tw districts in order to reconcile the problems caused In t tit-current tit-current overlapping boundaries. boun-daries. As the boundaries an wu located some parents oi students attending Park schools cannot vote tor I '.irk City school board members , because they reside uiihm the South Summit disu u i lines. The two"" schoot" boards v drafted a proposal &reprfN(! . the Park City scfiool' district i line to include the areas in I which students attending Park City schools reside. This will increase tax revenues the Park City School District, receives on assessed evaluation. The 3. lr " iil .... f .2 i a J ( MissBillie's 111 U Mil .-nV ANN ft ion m Licensed Preschool ENROLLNOW Billie Koleman, Director 649-9502 ll issSicilian Type Deep Dish (M PIZZA ' - AfontoTefsa Great Sandwiches itcfecn Salad Bar Take Out Service 649-8277 430 Main Park City jean-Pierre Naior Photo Garth Pymm talks to fellow committee members Bureau Could Pass Goal Prospector Square Conference Confer-ence Center last April 26 and the purpose of the new bureau will be to "sell" Park City to the rest of the world. The committee has proposed pro-posed a $125,000 budget for the new organization which would include a full time director and secretary. Summit Sum-mit County has pledged a proposal also calls for the Park City School District to assume a portion of the bonded bon-ded indebtedness of the South Summit School District since the boundary change will result m ;i drop in assessed evaluation for the South Summit district In order to el feet the boundary boun-dary change the I'tah Stale Legislature must enact the proposal submitted In the two districts or pass legislation establishing a process for a transfer of boundary lines. . .There is ,i,Urren&v k, no,,,, statutory -process for changing the boundaries of the school districts involved. Last week's agreement between the two school boards was the culmination of a year-long effort to solve the boundary problem. contribution of $50,000 if the bureau can match that amount and the results of the charter meeting seem to assure that it will. As an entity with the sole purpose of attracting people to Park City, most of the bureau funds will be spent on promotion, with the idea of pulling in more dollars than are spent. On September 6 the committee com-mittee will decide on a date for the first Park City Convention and Visitors Bureau meeting. At that initial meeting a board of directors will be elected and Aug. 24 Nilke Walston Aug. 25 Stephen Strand Aug. 26 Joyce Plowman Connie Stephens Adolph Imboden Kathy Kocinski Aug.27 John Nirva EricEller Tom Evans Diane Bowman Have a friend or like to see congratuated in the birth day column? Send their nametst date of birth iday and month only Birthdays, co The Newspaper, 738, Park City. Utah 84060. K K K K K K . Now available in Summit Park. Just under 1 acre ready for development. 8 Lots in beautiful Hidden Lake (up Weber Canyon). The estate will be sold August 26th 27th from 12 to 6p.m. At the upper Hidden Lake entrance. Early buyers' get best choice. 2200 Sq. Ft. in Summit Park, 3 Bdrm, 2 baths. Builder will finish to suit taste. $95,000 Offered by Thomson & Associates Alan Thomson 649-8424, Broker Ron Perry 649-8535, Associate Corneii Ridderholt 649-8023. Associate the committee will turn over to the board such matters as formulation of a budget and the hiring of a director. The soon-to-be-born Park City Convention and Visitors Bureau could surpass its first year dues collection goal of $75,000, according to Bob Wells, a member of the organizing committee. The committee held a charter meeting on August 15 and more than $50,000 was pledged by various businesses business-es to fund" the bureau. Wells said. The pledges ranged in size from $100 to $10,000. The ad hoc committee was spawned from a communica- finnc wnrkchru held at- the Aug. 28 Gayle Jones Mike Hilton Mark Whittaker Aug. 29 Colleen Kovach I 3 Aug. 30 Craze Greg Laura Williamson 3 relative you ould is n anil mm aa i to fy |