Organizers of the Kerrville Folk Festival have opened up the festival grounds as a center for flood relief in Kerr County.
Quiet Valley Ranch where the festival is held has been opened up for displaced people from the disaster. Volunteers are also using the space to distribute supplies and serve food.
Deb Rouse, executive director of the Kerrville Folk Festival Foundation, explained that “I came from Houston where we're used to hurricanes, and we have a very robust [alliance of] government groups, city government that coordinates all that, and they just really don't have it here and there are a whole bunch of different little towns. It's not even just Kerrville.”
John White, a volunteer, said that “So like lunch we'll have 400+ tomorrow — dinner we'll have another 400+ — and there's no way that just two or three of us would be able to get that all accomplished.”
The Kerrville Folk Festival attracts tens of thousands of music fans every year in the early summer.
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