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 | By Jeff Sherman   OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Jeff Sherman |
| Published May 14, 2007 at 10:18 a.m. |
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Summerfest, it seems, isn't on the New York Times radar.
A Sunday special section called "Summer Stages" on nytimes.com and inside the print edition of the New York daily featured previews of many of this summer's music, theater and dance festivals.
The music festivals guide, titled "In a Stadium, Or in a Pool, Bands Galore," previewed 35 music festivals in 12 states and Canada. Nowhere in the extensive list was there even a mention of the World's Greatest Music Festival, Milwaukee's own Summerfest. And, Wisconsin, as a whole, didn't receive a single mention in any of the guides.
Come on, New York! We have one of the longest running (11 days) and most diverse music festivals around and it's the 40th Anniversary this year!
How about a little love?
200 N. Harbor Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 273-2600
http://www.summerfest.com/entertainment/marcus.php
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Posted by Kolack on May 17, 2007 at 1:16 p.m. (report)
We've heard the old excuse that Suckerfest can only book bands that are currently on tour, in the area at the time, etc. for far too long. If this is in fact in practice, it can only be a Summerfest policy so that they don't have to pay any extra for getting a band to 'go out of their way' to play here. Other festivals such as Lollapalooza, Pitchfork, Coachella, etc. certainly don't seem to have this problem. Music acts go out of there way to perform at those festivals.
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Posted by hardgeminiguy on May 14, 2007 at 10:51 p.m. (report)
i get very tired of the constant NEGATIVE comments on this site. those saying summerfest is not a great festival--how many listed in the NYTs are really better? do not forget--summerfest can ONLY book the bands on the road duing the festival. a million people at summerfest sure says summerfest must be great. and how many people writing negative comments, actually, wrote summerfest with valid complaints and great suggestions? i bet none--just complain but do nothing useful. thank-you jerry johnson
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Posted by freckleface on May 14, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. (report)
Jeff- As I opened that section of my paper this weekend, I went thumbing through it- sure they would mention Summerfest. Regardless of how people feel about the music choices (are you going to tell me every music festival they mentioned is better than Summerfest????) - I think this was a poor oversight from my hometown paper and I was very disappointed.
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Posted by ToBeYoung on May 14, 2007 at 12:23 p.m. (report)
Way too many irrelevant bands from the 80s and 90s to be considered a great music festival.
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Posted by mkelover on May 14, 2007 at 11:49 a.m. (report)
And this is a surprise coming from the myopic, leftist NY Times??
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