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While it may not be the most enthusiastic endorsement of a seven-day concert series at Prince’s Island Park, there was the definite sentiment Thursday that the Calgary Folk Music Festival’s Summer Serenades is an anomaly that was forced onto the organization by extraordinary circumstances.
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There was no traditional running of the tarpies to get a good spot when the gates opened for Day 1 of the Serenades, which will find 36 artists playing over seven days on the main stage. All the spots were predetermined. The complicated ticketing system offered few solo tickets there were limited solo seats on bleachers and everything else was sold per tarp. The tarps, which could hold a maximum of four adults and two children, were mathematically distanced with markers and lines. The whole field was
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