Winfrey Level at White Rock Lake. Photograph by Renee Umsted.
A music competition organizer got here to the White Rock Lake Job Power assembly with an concept to host a music competition at Winfrey Level at White Rock Lake.
Brandt Wooden, an M Streets neighbor and co-founder of the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Competition in Franklin, Tennessee, pitched the thought to the duty drive, saying he had submitted a allow utility with the Metropolis of Dallas. As of this morning, that utility has been withdrawn, and Wooden is now not contemplating Winfrey Level as a possible competition web site.
Wooden, the principal of Woodhouse, shared his imaginative and prescient with the duty drive, emphasizing that his proposal was actually simply an concept.
His presentation on the assembly got here months after Wooden approached Dallas Park and Recreation with the thought to placed on an occasion at Winfrey Level, and the park division had already stated no to the thought.
“This can be a incredible web site for a correct music competition,” Wooden informed the duty drive. “A correct music competition is one which may be very well-run, that companions with the stakeholders, that places public security first, and it has an ideal eye for music, for meals, for beverage, for craft-makers.”
From the beginning, Wooden acknowledged that there are some “disruptive parts” that go together with a music competition — site visitors, noise, and many others. — however that by means of partnerships with the neighborhood, these points may be handled.
Wooden stated it took over a 12 months of conferences with stakeholders in Tennessee to get permission to make use of The Park at Harlinsdale, a century-old horse farm with pure amphitheaters and scenic views, because the competition web site.
And that’s the sort of course of he stated would occur in Dallas, with White Rock Lake neighborhoods, stakeholders, metropolis leaders and others.
“I don’t suppose this occurs with out folks having some critical considerations and questions,” he stated. “Then I feel you go and handle these, and also you attempt to construct consolation.”
He additionally harassed how distributors and musical acts can be rigorously curated, and the way the scale of the competition can be managed. Festivals can enhance the native economic system, he stated, including that Pilgrimage competition has donated lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} to the nonprofit Buddies of Franklin Parks, in addition to different charitable teams. A competition at White Rock Lake may benefit native nonprofit teams, Wooden stated.
After Wooden defined his concept, the duty drive members, who signify neighborhoods and organizations across the lake, began asking questions. The place would everybody park? What would forestall noise from disturbing close by residents? What would defend the Blackland prairie grasses that encompass Winfrey Level?
Wooden responded to the questions, however no process drive members expressed pleasure about having a competition at Winfrey Level. In the long run, for the reason that allow utility has been withdrawn, the problems the duty drive members introduced up gained’t have to be addressed.