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Skromeda named executive director of Winnipeg Folk Festival
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The Winnipeg Folk Festival has found its new executive director in its own backyard.
Winnipegger Lynne Skromeda has been named the new executive director of the festival, which hasn’t had a person in the top spot since the board of directors decided not to renew the contract of her predecessor Tamara Kater in May 2011.
Skromeda is well known in the local arts community. She is the president of production at Frantic Films and the president of the West End Cultural Centre’s board of directors.
"I am very honoured and excited to have been selected as the successful candidate. I’ve attended the Winnipeg Folk Festival since I was a child and it has always been my favourite event of the year," Skromeda said in a statement.
She will start the job on Sept. 4.
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