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Article: World Festival to drop running Winterfest Decision linked to plans group has to take over Great Circus Parade
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 19, 1996
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Milwaukee World Festival Inc. will not run Winterfest after this
year, a decision that could spell the end of the Cathedral Square
Park-based festival after an eight-year run.
"This will be our last year," said World Festival Executive
Director Bo Black.
World Festival officials are considering replacing Winterfest with
a new coordinated arts program. The Winterfest decision is
connected to plans by the group to take over operation of the Great
Circus Parade next summer.
World Festival will continue to operate Summerfest.
"It was always assumed that one or two years into this that
someone would come along and assume permanent control (of
Winterfest), but that has not happened," Black ...