Word: springfests
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...coupling the 11th annual Springfest in the same weekend with a concert by rap superstar Busta Rhymes, the two may have found a way to draw the troubled tradition into maturity...
...concert also seeks to appease the widely held conception that Springfest’s focus has drifted too far away from undergraduates. By holding this concert in the same weekend as Springfest, the organizers say they hope to shift the balance back in the direction of students...
...Springfest, scheduled for noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, will be largely similar to last year’s event, featuring carnival games and rides, student group sponsored booths, and a Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) barbeque...
...Springfest brings out a lot of people that work within the University with students, and, to me, it’s certainly a reasonable and desirable thing as a community-building event,” says McCambridge. “Some students will say that it’s the wrong focus, but I think the balance to that can be this kind of a concert event…I think that’s a wonderful balance to strike within this type of a weekend and that was part of the motivation behind the decision to do [the concert...
Tight budgets have led to some strange choices in the past. Artists who have performed at Springfest range from bands well past their peak, like the Violent Femmes in 1999, to novelty acts, like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in 2000, to downright bewildering choices, like God Street Wine...