What a year! We’re still here, optimistic about this year, and ready to see everyone's smiling faces this summer and fall. While events and festivals won't fully come back we are confident outdoor and safe events can take place. Are you ready to come back and join us?
It was just one year ago when the reality of the pandemic began to set in. We have spent some time reflecting and even in a year of many hardships we definitely found some bright spots, let's take a quick journey back through the last year.
March through May was mostly an odd blur, we mastered the ability to cancel and postpone events in a very clean and efficient way. For the most part our community was understanding and supportive of these hard decisions. We used our free time to work on staff development, learn new ways to work, stay virtually connected to our clients and enjoyed as much sunshine as we could.
In June we produced our first ever drive-in style event with our partners Events Hatched. Drag Drive-in was a non stop drag show that guests could safely view from their cars. The excitement and energy around this event really solidified our love for in person live events.
A Drag Queen performing at a drive-in event in 2020
June also bought us the opportunity to do a number of virtual events for Nashville Pride, Kentuckiana Pride and the Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce. We worked with a number of great local artists and venues to help produce Pride in Local, a joint streaming event between Nashville and Austin.
Every August the world famous Tomato Art Fest takes over east Nashville. After the east Nashville community was devastated by the March 3rd tornado and then the pandemic we could not fully cancel this event. We changed it up and safety produced the Tomato Art Fest….ish.
With the support of our friends and neighbors we had one great and colorful Porch Parade, a socially distanced Tomato Art Show a virtual for our vendor marketplace and contests.
We round out the fall of 2020 with the queen of bounce, Big Freedia at the OUTLOUD Drive-In. By this point in the year everyone was ready to safely get out and have some fun. We loved being able to provide the experience while also supporting local artists, drag queens, production staff and more.
While 2020 was nothing that anyone could have expected, we worked hard to improve our operations, our company, ourselves and not take live events for granted. Three words to describe our 2020 would be- Learn, adapt, repeat. What are your 3 words?
See you at a festival soon.