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Request from Big Top Events for additional concerts at Breese Stevens Field
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Big Top Events is contractually allowed seven concerts per year at Breese Stevens Field. Market conditions for the 2024 concert season have created a unique situation where the opportunity may exist to source more concerts than a normal year. Big Top Events is requesting approval to host up to five additional concerts in 2024, for a total of up to 12 concerts. None of the additional concerts will be on MMSD school nights. Fifty cents from every concert ticket sold will continue to be donated to the Madison Parks Foundation. In 2023, more than $27,000 was donated. Big Top Events has notified the Tenney Lapham Neighborhood Association (TLNA) of the plans for additional concerts at their September meeting and the TLNA, in partnership with Big Top, has surveyed the neighborhood to receive feedback on the possibility of more concerts at Breese in 2024. Results of this survey will be shared with the Commission at the meeting.