Pamusoroi, Tinotenda Nemushandira Pamwe (Thank You)

Vakuru vakati chara chimwe hachitswanyi inda.

Nearly every year the Zimbabwean Music Festival is created in a new location by a new team of organizers. The festival could not happen without the dedicated people who volunteer their time. The community that is created between seasoned volunteers who help year after year and newcomers who are getting their first taste of Zimfest is remarkable and truly the way community is built. The 2008 Zimfest Organizing Committee would like to give all volunteers a special thank you for their valuable time, goodnatured effort, and strong support of Zimfest. We could not have made this festival happen without you!

Thank you, Pacific Lutheran University, for providing this beautiful and cozy campus for our festival setting.

Thanks to the Zimfest Association Board and former Zimfest organizers for their continuing advice and support.

Many thanks to Larry Israel for his dedication and continuing website design and to Ross Thompson for being our database and online registration wizard.

Immense gratitude to Petra Siemion for her sharp and detailed presence of mind in editing the registration and festival guides, and to Graham Burdekin for the beautiful and caring layout of the guides.

Our Zimfest concert sound is mastered and brought to you by Neville Pearsall, who knows this music so well. Thanks also to Matt Gordon, Chris Steele, Chris Halaska, Bud Cohen, Michael Beardsworth, Guy Tauscher, and Amy Stewart for managing and helping with the afternoon and evening concert stages and to Sheree Seretse for concert advice.

Special thanks to Paul Wagner (Che oke’ ten) for creating the opening ceremony.

Tatenda to Clark Sarbaugh for his artistic ability and insights for our beautiful 2008 Zimfest poster and t-shirt design and to Hannah Wahl for designing the postcard and concert tickets as well as providing us with clarity on the fi nish line for the posters and t-shirts. Thanks to Joanne Lauterjung Kelly for the passport stamp design and promotional advice.

Tons of thanks to the people who were the coordinators of really big jobs! Julie Ishihara, Registration Coordinator; Rose Orskog, Housing Coordinator; Paul Mataruse and Dana Moffett, Concert Coordinators; Donita Crosby, Volunteer Coordinator; Dana Moffett, Zimbabwean Teacher Coordinator; Charlie Rosario, Marketplace Coordinator; Emily Schmidt, Prefest Coordinator; Raven Odion, Advertising; Bruce Dobson, Drum, Hosho, and Mbira Instrument Coordinator; Paul Mataruse, Lonnie Welsh, and Isaac Ishihara, Marimba Instrument Coordinators; Byron Moffett, Site Manager; Diana Chamrad, Accounting; Helma Lucker, Green Room Coordinator; Paul Mataruse and Jan Christensen, Teacher Track Coordinators, with thanks to Marie Eaton at WWU and Bruce Gutgesell at WMEA for helping us with academic and professional credits, respectively.

Many thanks to the following folks who so graciously loaned their marimbas for workshops: Karin Tauscher, Stan Sitnik, Rose Orskog, Dana Moffett, Titambe Marimba, Kutsinhira Cultural Center, Yesango Marimba, Stacy Sabella, Sweet Pumpkin, Mukana, and Jan Christensen.

Thank you to the Festival Guide essay contributors, who have provided important and educational writings: Claire Jones, Cosmas Magaya, Paul Berliner, Marilyn Kolodziejczyk, Albert Chimedza, Joel Laviolette, Paul Mataruse, Tendai Muparutsa, Musekiwa Chingodza, and Erica Azim.

Each Zimfest all of our communities are enriched by the hard work of those who have dedicated their time to the long and detailed process it takes to bring Zimbabwean musicians to the United States. Special thanks this year to Erica Azim, Marilyn Kolodziejczyk and the Kutsinhira Center, Hannah Wahl, Dana Moffett, Rose Orskog, and Paul Mataruse.

2008 Zimfest is again blessed to have our festival documented in beautiful photographs and film by Mark Cohen. We’d like to thank Anna Lennon for her beautiful photos as well.

Thank you to all the local merchants in Tacoma who have generously donated food items to our Green Room.

Volunteers at Zimfest, Tintotenda Chaizvo. Thank you very much for all the hours that you have put into volunteering at the festival!

The Zimfest 2008 Organizing Committee: Julie Ishihara, Paul Mataruse, Dana Moffett, and Rose Orskog