How to Build a Festival

Episode 49 - We built a festival! Echo 17 emotional recap!

How to Build a Festival

Show Notes

The gang celebrate the success of the first ever Echo 7 festival, and talk about how it all felt. This one is excitable and we focus on the emotion of it all, the excitement of seeing it all come together after two years of trying to figure out how to do it!

A huge thankyou to everyone who worked with us, helped us in advance and on the day, and who pushed us to see it through!

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