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Post by nature boy on May 22, 2006 15:55:45 GMT -5
Like dmbfanintn has stated, due to our neighborhood's location in regards to the festival grounds we're given tickets for the 'inconvenience'. We receive the invitation in the form of a letter each year. Today I recieved the letter for Bonnaroo 2006, and this year there was a sheet enclosed listing some interesting facts about Bonnaroo and it's impact on Manchester. Since some of you were curious so I've transcribed it below.
Bonnaroo at a glance...
Founded in 2002, the Bonnaroo Music Festival, held every June in Coffee County, TN attracts music lovers from all 50 states and more than two dozen countries.
Bonnaroo has been attended by over 300,000 in its first four years.
In 2004 Rolling Stone named Bonnaroo "one of the 50 moments to change the history of rock and roll."
2005 Bonnaroo economic impact on Coffee County...
The total economic imapct on Coffee County from the 2005 Bonnaroo Music Festival was $14,087,231 in business revenues, $4,353,887 in personal income and it created 191 new jobs.
2005 festival demographic: 55% male, 44% female; 84% 18 to 29yrs old, 13% 30 to 44yrs old; 71% of 2005 attendees said this was their first Bonnaroo; 89% camped on the festival site; 92% drove their own car; 99% stayed at least three full days (69% at least four full days).
In 2005, Bonnaroo attendees spent nearly $22 million on lodging, food, transportation, entertainment and souvenirs. $8,630,575 was spent by fans outside of the festival grounds in Coffee County. The average attendee spends $29.93 per day throughout the event.
Festival organizers spent $1,902,229 in 2005 in materials, supplies and labor within Coffee County not including ticket and state sales tax.
Between 2001 and 2004 total employment in Coffee County grew 9.14% (51.55% in wholesale trade, 19.12% in food/beverage service and 11.02% in entertainment/ recreation).
Local retail sales grew 10.53% between 2001 to 2004.
Local sales tax increased 40.63% between 2001 and 2005. (There's no state income tax in Tn, and I think some of that increase is due to the fact that the income tax got defeated and there was need to create revenue elsewhere. dmbfanintn may know better than I.)
Local households took home $4.354 million. Every Bonnaroo dollar spent in Coffee County generated an additional $0.50 in personal income for local residents.
(Economic Impact of Bonnaroo on Coffee County, conducted during the 2005 festival by the Buisness and Economic Research Center Jennings A Jones College of Buisiness at Middle Tennessee State University courtesy of Murat Arik, Ph.D. and David A. Penn Ph.D.)
Another point of interest from the cover letter...
" The festival is again teaming up with Fantasy 101 (WFTZ 101.5FM) for a local Radio Bonnaroo broadcast. Beginning Wednesday June 14th through Monday June 19th, Bonnaroo will be on your local radio with traffic update, news, and up-to-the-minute announcements and, of course spotlighs on the music you will hear at Bonnaroo..."
The total economic imapct on Coffee County from the 2005 Bonnaroo Music Festival was $14,087,231 in business revenues, $4,353,887 in personal income and it created 191 new jobs.
yeah, sounds like they really want Bonnaroo to go away
I think that this is just great reading material and nice to see some good out of this event besides of all the great music and partying...I can not wait to get there and spend my money.......Heck wish we had some of that revenue here in Pittsburgh....would be nice for the economy here..