Event organizer Cathy Anna credits the platform with eliminating roughly 100 hours of manual work per festival compared to her old spreadsheet-and-email approach.
ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, September 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Highlights:
-CultureFest NC saw attendance jump from 600 to over 7,000 in the three years since Cathy Anna took the helm, marking an 800% growth.
-Vendor numbers climbed from roughly 60 to more than 100 within just one year.
-Cathy Anna manages vendor communications, event maps, scheduling, and check-in via Eventeny, noting it cuts about 100 hours of work per event.
CultureFest NC, a cultural celebration held in Oxford, North Carolina, has surged from 600 to over 7,000 attendees in the three years since Cathy Anna assumed control from the nonprofit that previously managed it. Operating largely solo with support from contractors and volunteers, Cathy Anna shifted the festival’s vendor communication, event maps, scheduling, and check-in to Eventeny after her previous event software proved inadequate for the growing scale. She reports the transition saves her approximately 100 hours of labor per festival.
Important Details
-Attendance rose from 600 in the year before Cathy Anna’s leadership to 3,500 in her first year, around 5,100 in her second, and 7,100 this year—an 800% increase across three years.
-Vendor participation grew from roughly 60 to over 100 this year.
-Cathy Anna estimates Eventeny saves her about 100 hours per festival, work she previously handled through spreadsheets and individual vendor emails.
-CultureFest NC relies on a single live event map within Eventeny, which Cathy Anna also shares with local police, fire, and sheriff’s departments for coordinating barricades and road closures.
-Two additional Granville County groups, the Bee Jubilee and Granville Gardeners, adopted Eventeny based on Cathy Anna’s recommendation.
“The mapping and the layouts, having all of this in one place, it’s the Holy Grail for an event planner. I don’t know of any other software that does what you do,” said Cathy Anna, coordinator of CultureFest NC. “I probably save about 100 hours by using Eventeny.”
Fast Facts
How did CultureFest NC achieve an 800% attendance boost in three years?
Cathy Anna took over CultureFest NC from a nonprofit that could no longer sustain it, then rebuilt its operations—from vendor recruitment to the day-of event map—on Eventeny. Vendor participation grew alongside attendance, from about 60 to over 100 this year, and Cathy Anna manages festival-day logistics with local police, fire, and sheriff’s departments using a single shared map.
How does one person manage a festival with 7,000 attendees?
Cathy Anna runs CultureFest NC with contractors and volunteers instead of a dedicated events team. She handles vendor communication, festival maps, scheduling, and check-in through Eventeny rather than spreadsheets and email, work she estimates would otherwise add about 100 extra hours per festival.
About Eventeny
Eventeny is an event management platform that unifies ticketing, vendor management, scheduling, and guest logistics into a single system, replacing the scattered tools most organizers patch together. Its founders created Eventeny after seeing their sister, an event planner, exhausted by manual processes, aiming to simplify event planning. Eventeny has processed over one million applications from vendors, artists, and exhibitors, and claims to save organizers up to four months of manual work annually. Its clients include GalaxyCon, Fanatics Fest, the Florida Renaissance Festival, and CultureFest NC.
Cat McDevitt
Eventeny
press@eventeny.com
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