A committee spokesperson said that running the FCMF six weeks before Yag'ubi last year contributed to declining numbers. It also did not help that the FCMF billed itself as the Fraser Coast's only multicultural festival.
Apparently Yag'ubi organisers this year attempted to negotiate with the FCMF to combine the two festivals but the FCMF was resistant to the idea and it did not eventuate. Hervey Bay is just not big enough for two multicultural festivals so it would have made excellent sense to combine the two. After all Yag'ubi has been around for a long time and the FCMF is the new kid on the block.
I can only speculate that had Yag'ubi been sponsored by Wide Bay Water, an excellent run of publicity in our daily newspaper would have been assured as would the success of the festival.
Fundraising and events for Yag'ubi will continue so hopefully it will give the FCMF a run for its money and come back bigger, brighter and stronger next year.
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Our friend Ben May did an article on the Yag'ubi festival last year, and it makes interesting reading.
http://benmay.org/hervey-bay-news/yagubi-what-when-yagubi#comments
I think you mean the Fraser Coast Cultural Festival (FCCF) not the Fraser Coast Multicultural Festival as stated in the article above.
The president of Yagubi Festival, is the president of the Zonta club, and also is a personal secretaria of our local member.................well do I need to said more?
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