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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: sweetcell on May 05, 2008, 07:20:00 pm
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Music fest Vegoose is one cooked goose (http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/apr/29/music-fest-vegoose-one-cooked-goose/)
Attendance at Halloween event was uneven
Make other plans for Halloween in Las Vegas: The annual Vegoose Music Festival will not be presented this year. Not at the end of October or any other time. (...)
Two-day attendance in 2006 was down more than 50 percent, with a gate of 30,625, from 72,400 in 2005. Attendance in 2007 was 46,200, according to Las Vegas Events.
i thought that 46k attendees would be enough to make it profitable, especially with sponsorships like vegoose had. huh. as one blogger mused (http://consequenceofsound.net/2008/04/29/vegoose-2008-cancelled/), "Could this be the first of many festival causalities resulting from the over saturation of the market?" (this blogger got the attendence numbers wrong).
other victims this year: vineland and VFest vancouver (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008/05/03/vancouver-virgin-festival.html), who apparently couldn't book enough big-name talent.
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Maybe, but competition sure as hell isn't a bad thing. Europe has been over-saturated for years, and they do fine. Let a few die off if thats how it has to be. Its better than it was ten years ago, when a great festival was a unique thing.
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i'll be a happy camper as long as vfest bmore, coachella, and voodoo dont go anywhere.