Why The Secrecy On Riverbend Operation?
Bonaroo has three days of music, pre-sells 80,000 tickets at close to $100 and just purchased 700 acres for their festival. It’s private and does not have to be accountable to the public. What is Friends of the Festival hiding? What are the salaries of the staff? Where is the accounting of monies and are they published? What are the acts paid? How much corporate money is taken in? All questions that a public should be provide with and never has. Makes one wonder. Chuck Mehan East Ridge cbm2006@comcast.net * * * Mr. Mehan, I believe you answered your own question, at least in part. You stated, Bonaroo has three days of music, pre-sells 80,000 tickets at close to $100. Well, Riverbend has nine days of music and sells their pins for $28. That should tell you something, right there. Just one act, ZZ TOP, sells for $78 in Knoxville, $63 in Atlanta. In Chattanooga, because of Riverbend, the cost is $28. You also stated that Riverbend convinces hundreds of local people to work for free. Many
