A Wrap

We put the old fest to bed in style last night, with pizza, beer, stories and awards. First of all, let's talk about those awards.

Our 2011 MVPs on the men's side were the dynamic duo of Tim Driscoll and Mike Armstrong. These two never stopped, from Thursday and Friday set up to Sunday night tear down they were everywhere doing everything all at once. And still always having a good time doing it whether hanging banners or pouring beer backstage. For the women Kim Schumann was the deserving honoree. Just running the endless contests all weekend wasn't enough for Kim, who also took the controls of a forklift to speed up the tear down. Kim is what they call in baseball a 5 tool player and we're so lucky to have her.

Our female Rookie of The Year was lovely Liz O'Boyle who captained the new whiskey tents. She took on the unenviable task of created something out of nothing and turned the whiskey area into one of the most popular spots at the fest. If you didn't get up there to see Liz this year, start planning now for 2012. Our male Rookie of the Year was Anthony Canning. Anthony worked mostly out of the public eye in out office with the financial team and kept the numbers–and by extension the festival–flowing smoothly all weekend.

Special awards of recognition went to our volunteer coordinators Sarah Walsh, Liz O'Flaherty and Brandi Canning who wrangled more than a 1000 volunteers all year long through sign ups and assignments and at the fest got everybody t-shirted, delivered and working. It may be the toughest job at the fest and nobody could have done it better.

Congratulations to all. Well done.