The Island Festival

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dair swore off all things brave and adventurous when his high-school promposal went embarrassingly publicly wrong ten years ago. But when the invite to his school reunion lands in his inbox he decides it's time to get a life-to prove to his ex-classmates that he's a new person.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ewing moved to the Island partly to create and conduct a brass band but also to be closer to their grandma the only person they've ever been able to rely on. To make their job a success they need a euphonium player to take on the solo at the spring festival-and who better than their new student Dair a talented and hardworking beginner?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dair throws himself heart-first into the band but as the performance (and the reunion) approach his anxiety rises and so does his attraction to his music teacher. While Ewing envies Dair's courageous quest for a new life they can't shake the fear he'll turn out to be unreliable like everyone else. If the performance goes wrong it'll be the end of Dair's self-improvement plan Ewing's career and the future they could explore together.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>queer high-heat romance about an anxious homebody and his non-binary music teacher who fall in love while navigating a school reunion a fledgling brass band and the struggle of shedding maladaptive mindsets and finding your song.</em></p>