Feeling like no one cares about a project you have given 20 years to must be quite depressing. The Ruidoso Concert Association has announced that without the involvement of new board members and volunteers for shows, their curtain will close for the last time at the end of the 2008 season. (See ¡Vámonos!, Jan. 25.)
Money ... volunteers ... audience - all seem to be lacking, to one extent or another, so several questions could be asked:
• How can the 501(c)(3) best entice music-lovers to put in volunteer time to continue to bring such acts as the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington orchestras to audiences in Ruidoso?
• How can an organization that has been largely dependent on lodgers tax dollars (with declining amounts over the last few years) attract sufficient donations to continue to provide quality performance to a largely local audience?
• How can the group boost their resources to attract an audience for their shows?

Anyone care to weigh-in on this issue?