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Summer Fest accelerates its evolution.

by Jennifer Eberbach

posted 6/12/2010

"We had never seen this kind of economic meltdown that the state of Michigan was faced with," says Robb Woulfe, executive director of the four-week festival. Ticket sales for the Mainstage series dropped $250,000 last year, to $600,000, and corporate and foundation funding took a $100,000 hit. Yet traffic at the free Top of the Park (TOP) hit 3,000 people on

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