We are delighted to announce that The Baroness Valerie Amos, one of the Festival’s founding Patron was ‘appointed a member of the Order of the Garter, England’s oldest and most senior order of chivalry, becoming the first Black person in 700 years to receive the honour’. Val, as she is affectionately
All of us have been impacted, in one way or the other, by the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, those of us involved in the arts and culture arena have suffered significantly with no live arts events and venue closures, restrictions on live performances, cancellation of touring – national and international- and overall, with partial or full lockdowns. Nevertheless,
We are delighted to share with you that we recently welcomed into the Festival Crew, our youngest ever member. Crew member Leanna gave birth to a beautiful, bouncing boy and from all of us on the Crew, we wish mom and baby many years of good health, happiness and prosperity.
With the current world-wide situation, the Crew has decided not to host a ‘live’ event in 2021 but will continue Streaming bi-monthly programmes – see Streaming dates until December 2021 on
New Volunteers join the Crew We are delighted to share some exciting news about the expansion of the Festival’s Crew with the addition of four
Sandrine… Who? 🙂
Sandrine is a volunteer from France who joined the Rupununi Music & Arts Festival’s Crew in 2017 at the first Georgetown Connection event. Over the last few years, she has been supporting the Festival on a ‘when you need me’ basis but in 2020 she decided to become more proactive, completely redesigning the Festival’s website and in the creation of visuals to promote the Festival.