![]() And in the case of the three Kite Events she puts on every year, we’re talking about the “Marvelous” Maggie Conrad. It all starts on the desk of Maggie Conrad of the Lincoln City Visitors and Conventions Bureau – a rather “officious” organizational name for a bunch of folks that build events in their town as the city’s way to promote themselves – and also as each individual’s their way of making a living too, of course. Oh, you’ll still get your “geezer blog” fix from me down below, but you’ll also get some insight as to how something like this really happens, because – take it from me – it is NOT something that’s just “thrown together at the last minute” by any of the folks involved. ![]() So rather than just give you my normal old “touristy” blow-by-blow account, I’m going to make a not-so-minor departure from that and front-load you with some behind the scenes stuff about how an event like this one really comes together. Names like Jerry Canon, and Scott Weider, and Paul De Bakker, and some others who show up especially to fly at this festival because “the show” is just plain FUN to use as an exercise for their indoor kite-flying talents and skills. This “enlightened” community has a full time paid staff to organize, promote, and host the events that bring tourist business to their fair city – which is close to an “astounding” concept for such a small costal resort town of roughly 7,500 souls (2000 Census).Īnd the second thing that makes the Indoor Fest so unique is that the production is an hour-long “Show” that involves flying Indoor Kites in a planned, scripted, choreographed “show” akin to the type of events you’d expect to see in maybe a “Casino” show, or something similar to a European Indoor Circus production.Īnd finally, the Lincoln City Indoor Kite Festivals features top notch level pilots – Past and present AKA Grand National caliber pilots, and similar – folks who know how to fly, and how to entertain, and how to play to a crowd, too. ![]() And even if this is the first L/C Indoor report you’ve read, you might just be curious about a couple of the things that make this event such an unusual affair.įor one thing – Lincoln City approaches kite festivals in a rather unusial way. If you’ve been reading these Kitelife reports about this event that I’ve written over the years, you’ll probably remember that the annual Lincoln City Indoor Kite Festival is truly “Unique” in the kind of “show” that Lincoln City puts on.
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