Garden Tour 2021 Cancellation Announcement
Skagit Symphony’s 2021 Garden Tour has been postponed until 2022 to protect the safety of our gardeners, volunteers, staff and the public. We will be back with a show-stopping tour in 2022, which includes the many beautiful gardens in Anacortes and the fabulous personal garden of John & Toni Christianson!
Instead of our traditional tour, this year we have a treat for our loyal garden tour attendees: A wonderful garden party in a past garden tour favorite! Please join us at our Symphony Shortcake Social to celebrate our Symphony family. Tour a lovely garden, while enjoying refreshments and hear about what Skagit Symphony has in store for the coming concert season.
Garden Tour 2020 Cancellation Announcement
EVENT CANCELLED
In lieu of attending our Garden Tour Fundraiser, please donate to support Skagit Symphony Music Programs—every dollar makes a difference.
Thank you for helping us continue to bring music to our community!
This spring has been a new experience for many of us. We have experienced fear, frustration, sadness and hope in equal measures. Skagit Symphony had hoped that the pandemic level would decline to the point at which we would be able to create a safe way to hold Skagit Symphony’s 2020 Garden Tour. Our local community is beginning to recover from this trying time, though we agree that it’s still necessary for the health and safety of the public to move towards public gatherings at a measured pace. Consequently, out of an abundance of caution, on May 5th, 2020 Skagit Symphony leadership decided to cancel the 2020 Garden Tour.
Today our thoughts were echoed by Skagit County Public Health, when they posted the following statement on their website:
SUMMER EVENTS
On May 6, 2020, Skagit County Public Health Officer Dr. Howard Leibrand recommended the cancellation or postponement of large scale summer events through the summer, including fairs, parades, festivals, overnight residential camps, fireworks displays or any other large group gatherings. This recommendation aligns with Governor Inslee’s Safe Start plan.
“This is a guidance to help provide clarity to Skagitonians and guide decision making,” Dr. Leibrand said. “I wish I could guarantee that large events and gatherings will be safer later in the summer, but we can’t be certain. We will have to reassess the data as we get closer.”
For more information on the Safe Start plan, please visit www.governor.wa.gov
We are sad that we will miss sharing these fabulous gardens with you this summer, though as Clare Ansberry wrote in The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship,
“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.”
We hold out hope that we will all be able to bring people together for Skagit Symphony’s Garden Tour in 2021, when we can all stop to smell the roses freely again.
The Garden Tour is about more than just flowers. It is our only community fundraiser, so if you are able, please go to www.skagitsymphony.com/donate and make a donation to support our efforts to continue to bring the gift of music to Skagit Valley.
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart