Moe Coffey on fijivillage Straight Talk With Vijay Narayan

Renowned event director, Moe Coffey will appear on fijivillage Straight Talk With Vijay Narayan at 7pm tonight.

For the first time ever, Coffey will speak about the plans leading up to the first Homecoming Festival organized by George FIJI Veikoso and him last year, and the challenges involved.

He will also speak about the untimely passing away of George FIJI Veikoso, and the pressure involved in going ahead with the second Homecoming Festival this year.

The show will also focus on Homecoming Festival bringing UB40 featuring Ali Campbell to Nadi on January 30th next year.

With these music festivals becoming a major attraction for both locals and tourists alike, interesting times now lie ahead on the level of support from stakeholders like the government, Tourism Fiji, the hotel industry, and other corporate entities.

Renowned Events Director Moe Coffey branded the first Homecoming Festival he was planning with the late George FIJI Veikoso as mission impossible because he didn't think the concert was going to be viable, feasible or even possible to deliver.

He highlighted this during fijivillage Straight Talk With Vijay Narayan when he spoke about the preparations before the first ever Homecoming Festival and the challenges faced prior to the concert.

Coffey says the things Veikoso was talking about was logistically difficult and most of the infrastructure that he wanted for the festival did not exist here in Fiji, with a very small window of time.

He says there was no firm date, and Veikoso started pulling together a line up,and the venue he originally wanted proved unviable and wasn't able to happen there.

Coffey says everything was effectively in a holding pattern until his phone rang and Veikoso said that he had Kings Charles Park in Nadi as a venue.

He adds he immediately jumped on a plane with their Production Manager Bob, they had a look at the venue and knew they could make it work, and six weeks later, Homecoming one happened.

Coffey says they got thrown together in a very short period of time.

When questioned on what the concert meant to him and Veikoso, Coffey says there's a voice over that Veikoso does during the after-movie of Homecoming 1 and it was his dream, literally it was a dream come true for George FIJI Veikoso.

Coffey says it was something Veikoso manifested and it came about exactly how he wanted it.

George FIJI Veikoso had such a great gift of bringing people together through music and he is the connector of people, he is the bridge of the Pacific and that's one of his many super powers.

This was highlighted by renowned Events Director Moe Coffey during fijivillage Straight Talk With Vijay Narayan.

Coffey says Veikoso had the ability to connect people from all different walks of life and turn strangers into brothers.

He says there's not many people that he has come across in his life that can do it the way that Veikoso has done it.

Coffey adds when he looks back at the Homecoming Concert, he gets goosebumps and gets emotional.

Coffey adds he thought he was going to lose a stupid amount of money before the concert and he couldn't understand why Veikoso still persisted and wanted to push on.

He says it all made sense to him when people started arriving and particularly at the end when those thousands of people started singing Lomaloma to him and that made sense and it was amazing.