THE region's venues are set to have their say on what next year's Tamworth Country Music Festival may look like at a meeting tomorrow.
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Event organisers will meet with local publicans and operators to brainstorm ideas to run the festival despite the challenges of of the pandemic.
Festival manger Barry Harley said organisers regularly met with stakeholders during the planning stages, and this was just another cog in the wheel.
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"It really just is a bit of an update about where everyone feels they sit in regards to the festival and that sort of thing," Mr Harley told the Leader.
"Internally, we are discussing that all the time with council officers and everyone externally as well.
"Meetings with stakeholders such as venue operators is crucial because the festival doesn't belong to council, it belongs to the community."
Wests League Club chief executive Rod Laing said he was looking forward to the meeting because there was "a lot to discuss".
"I think it will be very interesting to discuss what next year's festival may look like," he said.
"You can really only go off the way things sit at the moment and they look pretty different to years gone by.
"I know our capacity is a lot lower than it usually would be for the festival and a lot of our visitors come from Queensland to stay with us.
"Given the border is closed, it will be very interesting to see how things pan out."
Mr Harley said tickets were slated to "go on sale from October 1."
"We are planning our monthly update for September at the moment and if things continue as planned the update after that should be about tickets," he said.
Alternative methods of running the 2021 festival have been floated, including taking the same route as this year's Hats Off To Country event, which was held online.
A key lead-up event for travelling visitors - the annual Parkes Elvis Festival - was last week shifted to March, which could also impact on numbers to TCMF.
Billy Jupp
Billy is a Senior Livestock Journalist for the Queensland Country Life based in Toowoomba. He has worked for a variety of different ACM mastheads during the past five years including the Namoi Valley Independent, Northern Daily Leader and The Land.
Billy is a Senior Livestock Journalist for the Queensland Country Life based in Toowoomba. He has worked for a variety of different ACM mastheads during the past five years including the Namoi Valley Independent, Northern Daily Leader and The Land.
