2023 Festival . . . In Gratitude

Seymour & Faye Okun Family for more than thirty-five years of continuous support

The Stansell Family & Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp for hosting the Falcone Festival since its inception (and a special shout-out to Fritz Stansell, founder of BLFAC and one of the Festival founders)

Blue Lake Festival Band & Dr. Trae Blanco, Conductor, for their musical support for the Tuba Artist Finals

Ellis Family Foundation for their decades of sustained support

Cecilia Falcone for continuing the Falcone family tradition

Rich Erne & Jim Ross for their guidance with BLFAC room scheduling, and to the BLFAC setup crew

Phil Sinder, Scott Myckowiak & Jane Goodrich for overseeing the transfer of the logistic and financial responsibilities from Sue Topping to others

Laura, Sue & Dave Topping for underwriting the digitization of “The Artistry of Leonard Falcone” and to the Committee (Chris Combest/chair, Cece Falcone, Jane Goodrich, Sue Topping & Dave Topping) who worked to enable streaming of these recordings

The Logistics Team: Pete Marvin, who communicated with our semi-finalists and alternates from their announcement up to the week prior to the Festival; and Joy Rimpau, who became the point person for the week of and during the Festival

Toby Salzman for her hours spent with edits and layout of the Festival programs since 2010 and for maintaining our website

Jason Smith for updating programming for registration, adjudication, and comments for our Festivals, plus special work required to meet special requests

Tom Hentschel, our roving photographer since 2016

John Endahl, webmaster, for dealing with our internet issues