‘We want you to be part of the community from your living room’
Fort Langley Jazz and Arts Festival organizers are boasting 17 acts, two live-streamed headliner shows, and plenty of opportunities to keep connected during this year’s virtual event Friday and Saturday, Sept. 4 and 5.
Founders Karen Zukas and Dave Quinn said it’s been a long, difficult, but exciting road bringing the third annual festival to jazz lovers due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It was an interesting journey where we’d pivoted, pivoted, pivoted until we’ve got to where we are now,” Zukas explained.
While COVID-19 overthrew any notion of having an outdoor festival with multiple stages, interactive art galleries, painter, and family activities lining the streets of Fort Langley, Quinn said going forward, the virtual aspect of the festival will forever continue.
“Going forward, the festival will always have a virtual component,” he explained. “Music and arts can bring in the younger generation and you need a mix of in-person and virtual to do that.”