Will festivals, audiences return this summer?
A crowd watches an aerial performance during the 2019 Street Food Festival at Kampfires Campground in Dummerston, Vt. Brattleboro Reformer File Photo
Windham County music festivals, businesses look to summer with high hopes By Jennifer Huberdeau
Amy Brady expects to have a busy summer and fall at Kampfires Campground, Inn and Entertainment. But what summer and fall will look like, when it comes to hosting events, depends on what COVID-19 safety precautions/restrictions are still
in place, how many people have been vaccinated and how businesses in Vermont will be allowed to reopen. “It will be interesting to see how people travel this year,” said Brady, who co-owns Kampfires, in Dummerston, and Whetstone Station, in Brattleboro, with her husband, Tim Brady, and their business
partner, David Hiler. “People will want to go somewhere, get out of their own house. All our pre-bookings are already way up for the year and from the year before; I think we’ll see things bounce back quickly when things are over.” But just when that would be still wasn’t clear in March,
despite Gov. Phil Scott’s plan to have every Vermont resident vaccinated by May 1. “It looks like things are going in the right direction,” Brady said. “But we still don’t have any regulations or guidelines.” The worldwide rollout of COVID-19 vaccines did give several Windham Country arts organizations confidence that UpCountryOnline.com | 37
