No Fairmount-Palooza Next Year, But ‘09 Is a Strong Possibility
Yesterday the Inquirer reported that competing proposals for a three-day-long music festival in Fairmount Park have been pulled off the table for 2008. (One of them, from the organizers of Lollapalooza, has morphed into a more woodsy event in beautiful Vineland, N.J., home of traffic circles and scary-looking cornfields.) But, according to one member of the Fairmount Park Commission, some date and logistics problems were the only things that kept the event from happening here. Next year they’ll plan better, and we might just see Lollapalooza on Belmont Plateau in 2009.
“We needed to be on the same page from the beginning with the organizers,” Joe Manko, a board member on the Fairmount Park Commission and newly minted member of Michael Nutter’s transistion team, tells the Daily Examiner. Manko says he’s already discussed the benefits of having the three-day concert in the city’s back yard with the soon-to-be mayor. “As a commissioner, if I’m seeing $500,000 or 7.5 percent of the gross and the promotion it’ll give to the city and the park, it’s a no-brainer. I think this is a good idea, and I hope we can make it come to life next year.”
Body-surfers, start training now.
No Lollapalooza in Fairmount Park [Inquirer]