- CMJ Rock Hall Music Fest
The CMJ Rock Hall Music Fest was an annual
music festival that took place in venues acrossCleveland, Ohio . The festival was sponsored by theRock and Roll Hall of Fame , located on the shores ofLake Erie downtown, as well as by CMJ, or "College Music Journal ", a weeklymagazine for the music industry andcollege radio stations in the United States and Canada.It premiered in 2005. The festival featured live bands at a variety of locations throughout Cleveland, and initially included a festival village on the west bank of
The Flats near theCuyahoga River . The second festival was held June 14-18, 2006, and featured a relocated festival village at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Attendance at both the festival and the village location improved during its second run. In April 2007, organizers canceled the event, citing strains on financial and staffing resources. [Soeder, John. [http://blog.cleveland.com/entertainment/2007/04/cmjrock_hall_music_fest_cancel.html CMJ/Rock Hall Music Fest cancelled after two-year run] , "The Plain Dealer",2007-04-06 .]References
External links
* [http://www.cmj.com/musicfest/ CMJ Rock Hall Music Fest]
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