Another analogy:

The Alaska Folk Festival each year hires one guest artist group to perform. The group does two concerts in the course of the week and on the weekend conducts workshops on individual strengths within the group.

In return, the group is paid $1000 each member, is put up at a local hotel, taken out flying, fishing, sightseeing, home for dinner, and embraced by the whole music community.

Over the 27 years of its existence, guest artist genres have ranged from Irish to bluegrass to country to electric blues to Cajun to Canadian folk to backporch groups to instrumentalists to klezmer to slack key to Appalachian to - you get the idea.

No one in the community expects to feel the same about each group, but that's fine because next year they may press your button. In any case, the magic of the festival is always there.

Ebbie