Posted on March 15, 2006
According to the Mid-Atlantic Radio Conference Web site, it will not hold its annual music festival — MACRoCk — this year in April. Instead, it will take place next year and plans to partner with Harrisonburg’s Downtown Renaissance. Until now, MACRoCk was a JMU organization.
MACRoCk co-head director, senior Phil Mathews, said this is the first break in the music festival’s 10-year history.
“Rather than risk having it flop,” Mathews said, “[we] decided to come back with a bang next year.”
MACRoCk is an annual music festival that features independent bands at venues throughout Harrisonburg and on JMU’s campus. Next year, however, the organization will become independent of the university, which, according to its Web site, means the university will not legally back the organization.
Mathews said the organization plans to hold the various shows in a more centralized location and will no longer hold shows on campus.
Before the end of last semester, MACRoCk was asked not to present its case before SGA to seek funds to offset its debt of $15,496.37.
The music festival is scheduled for April 4 and 5, 2008.
