Re: [Harp-L] Where is it?

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

SPAH has been on the east coast once, Virginia Beach in 2011 and out west in Sacramento in 2009.

Moving out of the midwest changes attendance, although in Sacramento, the year after the economy plummeted, the west coast attendees more than made up for the dropoff in central area attendance.

If you want the SPAH convention to come to your area, where are your volunteers? SPAH needs local volunteers on the ground to help realize the event.

What is also needed is a hotel that is big enough, cheap enough, and close enough to a major airport and highways for the event. Finding candidate hotels is one of the first jobs of that volunteer group, which traditionally has taken the form of a local harmonica club but could be simply a well organized, energetic group of local folks.
 
Winslow Yerxa
President, SPAH, the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica
Producer, the Harmonica Collective
Author, Harmonica For Dummies, ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
            Harmonica Basics For Dummies, ASIN B005KIYPFS
            Blues Harmonica For Dummies, ISBN 978-1-1182-5269-7
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 From: Ryan Hartt <rhartt1234@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 9:31 AM
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Where is it?
 

I've never been to SPAH. I'm not sure if I could actually handle that much harmonica all at once. However, it seems the conventions are always between the Rockies and the Appalachians.  I would like to remind  the good people at SPAH that there is a whole United States east of the Midwest. My chances of attending would be greatly increased if a convention was somewhere with in the BosWash megalopolis. Ryan




> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:14:32 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Where is it?
> From: harmonicat@xxxxxxxxx
> To: harpie@xxxxxxxxxxx; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: 
> 
> Denver Colorado August 11-15, 2015
> 
> On Friday, August 29, 2014, Jaime Viehweg <harpie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I either missed it or no one mentioned it...  Where is the next SPAH
> > convention at?  The spah.org web site does not appear to have that
> > information at this time.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > jaime
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