Lindsay Connolly (she/her), the executive director of Under the Spire Music Festival, is a PEI-born musician and arts administrator who hopes to foster arts sustainability and community relationships in an inclusive environment. After five years as a freelance opera singer, grant-writer and arts administrator for organizations across Canada, Lindsay returned to the East Coast (best coast!) in 2021 to begin work with Under the Spire Music Festival, formerly known as Indian River Festival. She is grateful to work, play, and live in beautiful Kataganek Epekwitk, the traditional unceded and unsurrendered territory of the L’nu and Mi’kmaq.