{"id":1360,"date":"2013-04-09T13:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2013-04-16T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:27:22","slug":"principals-involved-in-lucid-plan-arent-done-with-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/principals-involved-in-lucid-plan-arent-done-with-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"Principals involved in Lucid plan aren\u2019t done with Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Aurora Live! dead in the water, enough time has passed for heads to cool and assess the situation.<\/p>\n

But George Roche, founder of Lucid Productions, the group that brought forward the Aurora Live! festival isn\u2019t completely done with Aurora. 2014, he said, is definitely a possibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to [bid on a festival] if we can get the \u2018Wild, Wild West\u2019 politics and the cynicism projected by [Councillor Chris Ballard] which I believe rises out of the treatment unto the Aurora Jazz Fest organizers,\u201d said Mr. Roche, referring to the war of words between himself and the Councillor while the festival was still on the table. \u201cWe always had a great feeling of working with Aurora and nothing has changed. When things go a little bit sideways obviously politicians start to protect themselves and their own credibility within the Town, but in this case the credibility wasn\u2019t protected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Credibility also took a hit, he claims when Councillor Abel began to get \u201cdemanding\u201d on which bands should take to the stage and how much they should be paid, as well as what he describes as a \u201cspectacle\u201d being made out of their references. <\/p>\n

\u201c2013 is out of the question [for a festival],\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re very sorry it didn\u2019t go the way we had proposed. It wasn\u2019t anything to do with our actions, certainly being the lead writer and the pitchmen for the plan, I certainly wouldn\u2019t have done anything to hijack my own proposal. It appears that we were spectators in everybody else\u2019s drama.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much of this drama also stemmed from the resignations of many notable people from the board of Lucid, citing \u201cphilosophical\u201d differences with Mr. Roche, including Canadian Idol judge Farley Flex, broadcaster Christine Bentley, and singers Brian Melo and Theo Tams, and dancer Miles Faber. <\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir With Aurora Live! dead in the water, enough time has passed for heads to cool and assess the situation. But George Roche, founder of Lucid Productions, the group that brought forward the Aurora Live! festival isn\u2019t completely done with Aurora. 2014, he said, is definitely a possibility. \u201cI would love to [bid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-lW","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 06:02:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}