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.
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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.
