Gregador

I mean, seriously, Erie, you bitch and moan about brain drain, then give the kids another concert filled with performers who were popular a quarter-century before they were even born. You pay lip service to supporting your arts community, then turn around and hire out-of-town acts who don’t pay rent in Erie, don’t buy groceries in Erie, and don’t have any sort of stake in this community whatsoever. You wish and hope and pray for tourism to supplant the once vibrant manufacturing sector of our city’s economy, then you completely ignore the opportunity to procure a relevant, popular headliner with regional or national appeal, thus shunning tourism dollars in the process. Next year, do us all a favor, Erie; if you can’t book a mind-blowing, coffer-filling headliner, then let me run the festival – I’ll hire every local band in this town at treble their normal rate and let them play instead.