KORUS successful wrap-up – see you next year!

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KORUS Festival - DJ Koo - talent show judgeThe 9th annual KORUS festival ended a short time ago, after 3 days of exciting and entertaining performers, dozens of vendors offering tasty food, Korean music CD’s & posters, and more.

Clips, photos, and stories from this year’s festival will be online over the next few weeks and months. The organizers at the Korean American Association of Greater Washington thank all of the sponsors, volunteers, community members, and others who made this event possible.

Planning for the next festival has already started, along with other events in-between before next fall. See you next year!

Festival has started!

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The 9th KORUS Festival has started with drumming, speakers, and more. Many vendors are here selling food, and there is plenty of (free!) parking.

At times during this weekend, there will be a live video stream of the festival available here: KORUS Festival UStream.  Clips will also be archived there.

Photos: opening drumming, and warmup by King of ConneXionZ (Facebook page).

Ready For A Great Festival Weekend!

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Tonight there was the final planning meeting for this weekend’s 9th KORUS Festival.  The meeting, held in a mix of Korean and English, was followed up by a dinner at a local restaurant.

The stage, performers, volunteers, and other details have all been set.  Well, not the stage… it will be set up on Friday.  But the stage schedule is packed with three nights (and two days) of performances, contests, and more.

All of the booths have been spoken for at this point – over 100!  So, organizing details like parking and trash pickup are important for making the event experience a success.

Volunteers Make It Happen At The Festival!

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Today there was a meeting of the volunteers that will help make the festival happen.

The meeting was part introduction, and part training.  There are duties to perform, such as parking help, trash pickup, and helping organize the performers.   While wearing the volunteer t-shirt (the uniform), the volunteers are “on duty” and are representing the festival.  When they are off-duty, they can relax and enjoy the shows.

The photo below is of some of the volunteers and festival organizers.  If you are interested, here is the page to volunteer.

KORUS festival volunteer meeting attendees

Performers meeting – KORUS festival

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Tonight there was a performers orientation meeting. Many of the people who you will see at next weekend’s festival attended, such as Chip Han, Lyricks, Tamara Kim, Rooftop Pursuit, and Balock.  They are excited to be able to share their talents with so many people.

Performers may seem to magically appear on stage, but usually they have to deal with the same travel and parking situation that festival attendees do.  There is also a rehearsal for some of the performances.  (9am Saturday… shhhh don’t tell anyone!).

To make the magic happen, at night, there will be special lighting.  The lighting company, Artistic Concepts, explained how the lighting works.  The sound company, Genesis Technology, covered the awesome sound capabilities they are bringing… 8 wireless mics, 4 body packs, and other gear.

Each of the performers at the meeting went over their needs for lighting and sound.  Hearing them describe what they will be doing got everyone excited to see it live.

This year there are so many performers, including a new concept concert “KOKOMO” with Kollaboration DC.  The name stands for “KORUS KOLLABORATION Music Octoberfest“.