Calgary Folk Music Festival Testing New Wildfire Smoke Guidelines

Calgary Folk Music Festival testing new wildfire smoke guidelines

Wildfire smoke is becoming a bigger concern for outdoor events, and the Calgary Folk Music Festival is trying a new way to keep people safe.

When Canadian wildfire smoke threatened Glimmerglass, the festival found a way

I return to the glasslike Lake Otsego and Glimmerglass, a summer festival of opera and other musical theater offerings, and each year I can’t help but feel I’m coming home. The green rolling lawn gently slopes up on one side to rustic barns that serve as scene shops and dorms to many of the top young artists and interns culled from around the country. The central airy Alice Busch Opera Theater, with its iconic walls that slide shut moments befor…