Volunteering

Yep! That's what this festival runs on.

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Download a volunteer form by clicking here. Please mail the completed form to May Hall, 226 South Road, Chebeague Island, Maine 04017.

Volunteering at the Festival

Dozens of dance and music lovers help the Festival run by volunteering to help with the many tasks that need to be done during the weekend. Many of our daytime festival performers also volunteer their talents instead of sharing in the proceeds.

Volunteer sign-up begins February 1st. Three hours of volunteer time during the festival weekend gets you free admission to Friday and Saturday festival events. (The Festival Survivors Dance is not included.)

Super Volunteers

The festival is fortunate to have a number of "Super Volunteers," volunteers who do a great deal of work beyond just the festival weeekend, but are not on the Festival Committee. Several current members of the Festival Committee were Super Volunteers before they become committee members.

• Cindy Larock, major newspaper press releases
• Kim Roberts, children's area
• Laurie Sims, instrument check & festival map
• Sam Powers, stage storage & set-up
• Steve Plumb, ticket sales

The DownEast Country Dance Festival Committee

The Festival and all associated events (the Survivors dance, fundraisers, our sometimes booth at the Common Ground Fair, etc.) are planned and managed by a volunteer committee. The committee meets approximately monthly for planning sessions, and, along with some other volunteers, does the work associated with running the Festival between meetings. Meetings are collaborative, including discussions of ideas and proposals and delegation of work to be done. Typically we meet in committee members' homes or free public meeting space and meeting dates are set as much as possible to accommodate members' already busy calendars (none of our committee members have a shortage of other activity in their lives!).

Other Ways to Help Make it Happen

If you are interested in helping to accomplish the work of making our festival a success and helping it run better and smoother please contact us! You might have an idea we can use, or we might have a task you can help with during the year. Special computer skills? Publicity skills or experience? Bake Sale talent? Willingness to distribute fliers/t-shirts/other Festival items at dances and events? Want to help out at our booth at the Common Ground Fair (we weren't be there in 2009, but with sufficient volunteer interest could be back in 2010)? Something else you'd like to offer? If you'd like to help, even if you don't know what you might want to do, you can talk with a committee member or sit in at a future committee meeting.

You can also support the festival by buying and wearing a festival t-shirt (available at the festival and sometimes at local dances in Maine during the month preceding the festival).