Talk:Summerfest

message: Summerfest's website claims the capacity is only 23,000. Even if you multiply this for the 11 day period the fest lasts for, this is still pretty small in comparison to many other festivals. Also, the area is only 75 acres, making it tiny in comparison to giant such as Glastonbury and incapable of containing a million people, even over an 11 day period.
Could someone tell me where the million claim comes from?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.94.195 (talk) 23:57, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  23,000 capacity? 

message: This and the associated festival pages should be corrected at some point to draw a distinction between the location, Henry Meier Festival Park, and each festival held there. For instance... Festa Italiana is not held on the Summerfest grounds.
:I live in Eau Claire, and was to Summerfest once for about 3 hours, so I'm suffering nearly the same deficiency of knowledge as probably 99.973% of wikireaders when it comes to this.  Are you volunteering (please? :-D) to take up the work required to expand my/our knowledge?  :-)  We'd all be a lot better informed if you'd take this upon yourself, and hmmm, I think I could be pretty easily persuaded to award you a barnstar if you can let me know WHAT GOES ON DOWN THERE IN MILWAUKEE ANYWAYS!? ;-P Tomer TALK 10:27, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
::lol. We roast outsiders on open spits down here. ;^)  I second the request for boldness, and I hope to add more to this article myself... after I finish my quest to pin  all around the state. --BaronLarf 11:11, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
::::OMG!  /me hides under bed.  :-)~ Tomer TALK 22:34, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
:::Henry Maier Festival Grounds page created, festival pages redirected to that page. BTW, it is confusing, as I have seen Summerfest Grounds, HMF Park, and HMF Grounds used interchangably, not restricted to Summerfest the festival. -slowpokeiv 16:39, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Me too. I actually have seen "Summerfest Grounds" used more lately rather than Henry Meier Festival Grounds that I wondered if they had renamed the park. As for Festa Italiana, their website even says (in the box at far right): "Place: Summerfest Grounds on Milwaukee's Lakefront." HollyAm 23:23, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, in any case, I will get the final answer in 7 days. I'll be going to Milwaukee Irish Fest, and I'll take a few photos of the main mid-gate to add, which if memory serves me, has the famous smiley, and the full name. BTW, great photo Holly, when I add mine, I would certainly not remove yours, to do such would be to lose history.-slowpokeiv 00:10, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! A recent photo of the gate will be great for the article. HollyAm 03:10, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: At the main gate you will find in the metalwork spanning the top "Henry Maier Festival Park", and below that an electronic matrix sign which cycles and displays the Summerfest logo year-round.  I just happened to drive past yesterday. While it is the premier fest for the park, the signage is no different than that of a company leasing a building... err, park. --24.211.0.91 04:22, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Need clarification of festival location

message: Summerfest will be fourty next year(2007).  At Summerfest 2006, there were many signs saying "Guess who's turning 40?  Don't miss the party!  Summerfest 2007."  I am repsonsible for the changing of the foundation date on the wiki page due to these signs at Summerfest 2006.  It said 1968, but Summerfest says otherwise.--WhereAmI 01:50, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I reverted your change because, according to Summerfest's own website here, the first Summerfest was held in 1968. I saw the signs (and shirts) too about turning 40 next year, and I can only presume that they mean that, when counting 1968 as Summerfest #1, 2007 will be Summerfest #40. HollyAm 02:32, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Age

message: User:CrustyJoe made an edit that the opening day's "Big Bang" display was not part of Summerfest, but that the July 3 fireworks were. I believe it is the opposite. It is my understanding that the July 3 fireworks are sponsored by US Bank and in Veterans Park. The Big Bang fireworks, in contrast, are mentioned on Summerfest's website here. Further evidence is that bands headlining the grounds stages do not start until later than normal to allow for the opening day fireworks. HollyAm 02:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fireworks 

message: If someone wants to keep the list, get some citations and make a List of Summerfest acts or something similar. The list is almost 4kb and I really see no point in having the list in the article. --Dual Freq 22:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pointless list of acts that supposedly played at Summerfest 

message: The picture in the article makes Summerfest look very small.  Also, it is from 1994.  Obviously it could use an update.  --138.49.20.167 (talk) 20:36, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: The internal link for Indian Summer is for India, but the "Indian Summer Festival" in early September each year on the same festival grounds is a kind of large urban powwow for Native Americans. See www.indiansummer.org. The disambiguation page shows there is currently no Wikipedia article for this annual Native American festival in Milwaukee. As does the Henry Maier Festival Park wiki.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mino-wiijiindi (talk • contribs) 00:21, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect Internal Link

message: The article says "... always including the 4th of July holiday," which has been
true up until now (2011). For some reason, it's not open on the Fourth this year.
How should the page best be edited to reflect this? Just saying "... always
included the 4th of July holiday until the year 2011" is possible, but it seems
kind of klunky.
Mstemper (talk) 19:22, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed it to say "...usually including the 4th of July holiday".  If someone wants to specifically mention not including the 4th in 2011, it should be after the lead paragraph, and hopefully list the reason with a source. CuriousEric 14:45, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates

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message: At the top of this article it should be said and linked (if existing article exists) that there is another Sharefest Music Festival called, "Summerfest" held in the summer of 1985 in Enumclaw WA. It was large Christian Music Festival of the same name. 216.110.193.15 (talk) 23:45, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Summerfest Music Festival 

message: > For over 50 years, Orem residents would gather together every summer and celebrate the city with Summerfest. People will still gather together June 5-10 for a talent show, parade, car show and hot dog easting competition, but now it’ll be under a new banner — Oremfest.
> According to a video shared on the city’s Facebook page, the change is due to a cease-and-desist letter sent to Orem by Milwaukee late in the summer of 2022.
Source: https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/2023/apr/30/orem-changes-summer-celebration-name-to-oremfest-after-legal-threat/ Gdw2 (talk) 22:54, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orem, Utah Summerfest