Festival Sixteen is dedicated to the Borough of Delaware Water Gap, which in 1993 celebrates its 200th anniversary. The town and its immediate surroundings are duly recognized in the festival program for providing the necessary atmosphere, physical and otherwise, essentail to staging a successful event. COTA gets back to basics this year, presenting performances Friday through Sunday only. The Katchie Cartwright Quintet plays this year, plus Bill Goodwin's Three with special guest Bill Dobbins. The Phil Markowitz Trio is on this year's bill, plus the Steve Gilmore Trio with Greg Gisbert on trumpet. Phil Woods has Brian Lynch on trumpet this year, while Craig Kastelnik features trumpeter Tim Hagans.
The Jazz Mass, featuring original music arranged for chorus and orchestra by Wolfgang Knittel, continues to be an integral and popular COTA feature. Drummer, bandleader, COTA stalwart James "Butch" Tucker Jr. passes away this year, and is remembered at the festival by friends and fellow musicians. Thomas Traherne, in 1665, saw the human situation more or less like this:
From dust I rise,
And out of nothing now awake;
These brighter regions which salute mine eyes,
A gift from God I take.
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