Last season set a record at the in Jacksonville, and not a good one. For the first time since the festival opened in the 60s, there was not a single orchestra performance outdoors on the hillside.
Wildfire smoke drove the concerts indoors or cancelled them outright.
Teddy Abrams, the musical director and orchestra conductor, now picks up the pieces and looks forward to next summer's season. He just signed up for five more years leading what has just been re-branded the Britt Festival Orchestra, BFO.
We'll hear Teddy Abrams's thoughts on what happened last summer, and what could happen in the next.
