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No WUMB Music Festival (née Boston Folk Festival) in 2012
By Ron Newman on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:20am
WUMB radio has sponsored a music festival since 1998, called 'Boston Folk Festival' through 2009 but renamed 'WUMB Music Festival' for 2010 and 2011.
But not this year. The festival web site announces:
The 2012 WUMB Music Fest scheduled for Sunday, June 3rd has been cancelled.
The site says a 'Member Concert Marathon' will replace it on that date, but this appears to be for WUMB members only rather than for the general paying public.
WUMB's festival has been in decline for several years. Formerly a two-day event, it was reduced to one day starting in 2007. In 2009 it was nearly cancelled, then hurriedly revived as an indoor-only event. In 2010 its name was changed and the date moved from September to June. In 2011, the festival's annual songwriting contest was cancelled.
Local folk fans seeking an outdoor festival will need to travel to Lowell or New Bedford this summer.
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Although it's mostly indoors,
Although it's mostly indoors, NEFFA is the biggest community-based participatory folk festival in New England. It's April 20-22 in Mansfield, MA.