The Rochester Music Fest failed. But it makes total sense as to why this happened…
Great Duffster, the City gave 250,000 toward this event which happened the day after the 2 week Jazz Fest. I could’ve predicted this one. Basically thousands and thousands came to the East End to watch free concerts for almost two weeks, and were then faced with the prospect of buying tickets for an overpriced Music Fest.
To be fair, the Jazz Fest did draw in people who would probably never attend the Music Fest (upstate NY tourists, older city crowd, people from the surrounding suburbs, etc.) Still, …