Tag: Bay Harbor Fest

Harbor Fest-Gate: Never a dull moment in the Bay

I understand Hizzoner and the City Comptroller were MIA at last night’s Bay City Council meeting, perhaps because the Office of the State Auditor has summoned the City Council to a meeting tomorrow, where the rumor mill holds the boom will be lowered on the Mayor and his history, habit and practice of ignoring the home rule statute. We’ll see.

Meantime Harbor Fest promoter Michael Rosato announced last month the dates of the 2016 Bay Harbor Fest, an annual festival that has been heavily promoted in the local media but which has massive problems the least of which was last year’s Greg Allman set, which was delayed several hours.  The bigger problems to holding this year’s event appear to be twofold:

  1. Rosato still owes the City money for last year’s event.
  2. Rosato evidently owes the festival’s vendors money from last year as those following along last night on Twitter witnessed:

Now given how Hizzoner handles the City’s finances, I can understand the attraction to the event’s promoter but the City doesn’t do itself any favors holding a money losing music festival. Stay tuned.

Gregg Allmangate: Never a dull moment here in the Bay

There are dangers to headlining a local music festival with an over the hill rock star that perpetually looks like he’s been on a seven day bender.

I personally paid nothing to support the event, yet I managed to hear part of the very late concluding set from Harbor Fest on my back porch here in Ward 1.

Meantime Allman is being torched in the local social media.