The end of summer is always bittersweet, and for music lovers in the Carbon Corridor that bitter taste is felt doubly because it also signals the end of the Price Culture Connection season. To commemorate the season, Castle Country Radio sat down with Layne Miller to talk about the highs, the lows and what is coming next for music in the corridor.
Opening our recap, we asked Miller to look back on some of his favorite parts of the season,” I think by far my favorite thing about it was being up in Washington Park. The change of setting, the trees, all the grass and the shade. Shade was such a big deal. We had several bands compliment us on the new venue and I have to comment about the quality of the bands. I had many people come up and say several different nights, this was my favorite, this was my favorite, this is my favorite. I heard that a lot.” Jokingly Miller added,” The only bad thing about that, is it puts the pressure on for next summer.”
Moving on from the good to the bad and the ugly, we asked Miller what, if any, troubles they ran into throughout the summer,” We need to make sure that we’re getting the word out a little better so everybody knows. I think after one summer, everybody kind of has the idea now that it’s going to be on Thursday nights in the park, but we need to do a better job about getting the word out as to who’s performing,” Miller continued,” which brings up an issue, we can talk about the name of the band, we can talk about the type of music, but people don’t often understand exactly how good they’re going to be.”
Miller then turned to what comes next in terms of Culture Connections,” We start right after the first of the year. It takes a long time for Ted (Hinckley) to contact the bands, to come up with a date that works for everybody, get a contract signed, get an agreement done and then place it on the schedule.”
Miller also broke some exciting news as to what is coming up later this year for Price City,” I think the biggest thing, and this is a first reveal, we’re going to have a Christmas concert, Christmas A La Vivaldi. It’ll be coming to the Civic Auditorium, so it’ll be indoors, and it’ll be the finale of our monthlong Christmas celebration.”
Another important aspect of the season Miller wanted to highlight was the work put in by Ted Hinckley,” We had two things happen that could have been real emergencies. He had solved the emergency before I even knew that it was a crisis. So my hat’s off to him.” Miller stated,” He’s a real pro at what he does, and I think our Culture Connections season shows that.”
Closing out our interview, Miller shared the following,” I guess the thing that I would say is this has been a fabulous season. It’ll be at least as good, if not a little bit better, next year, so keep your ears open. We’ll let you know when it’s about to start, and what we’re doing will give you something to look forward to again for next summer.”