Plans are being made for a fourth annual Rare Earth Music Festival in Vernon, but it may be at a different site, and scaled back. Organizer Kath Raeber has funded the event herself the first three years and hasn't got the support she'd hoped for.She says they're now a certified non profit society, called the North Okanagan Music Festival Society. She says it means they can seek government funding. "We can apply for funding for workshops for children, we can apply for funding to allow children to show off their wares, like artisans, and food vendors and wine vendors, and all those types of things." Raeber has landed a Heritage Canada grant of almost 27-thousand dollars which will be used to put on this year's event. She's got Kin Race Track booked again for August 6 and 7, but hopes to find another site to hold the event in July, to avoid conflicts with other music events in the region. "It would be wonderful if I could get something close to the lake where there's tenting and RV parking." She says Silver Star is another possibility, but the Motoplex Speedway wouldn't work. Raeber says with the society status, she expects music will be just one of the arts showcased at the festival. "We have to let Vernon know, our arts and culture here is so amazing. We are loaded in Vernon with art."
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