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Thread #161711 Message #3846290
Posted By: GUEST
23-Mar-17 - 09:02 AM
Thread Name: Ozcatters @ 2017 National Folk Festival?
Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2017 National Folk Festival?
Creative (ac)counting? Remember, we are talking about Canberra, Australia's home of creative accounting :-)
But seriously, I would imagine that they have to set a "maximum expected attendance" number for licensing, insurance and legal purposes, which is probably the reason for that figure. If all the planets align, that number is possibly achievable and justified.
Perhaps the claim in the publicity blurb could have been better written; maybe "up to 50,000 attendees" may have been a better way of phrasing it.
I doubt it has much to do with sponsorship. If numbers were to be vastly inflated, then there is a high risk that such sponsors would not come on board in future years, a situation which could spell the end of the festival as we know it....
If your concern is more than curious, then maybe a call or email to the office might get you some answers....