If this year's Music Fest actually gets off the ground it will in all probability be the last. With City Council slashing funds for the festival from $721, 750 to a paltry $250,000 the quality --- and diversity --- the MusicFest once provided will be gone. The event will be for one day only --- July 21 --- at Frontier Field.

Music festivals do work in Rochester, obviously. But I feel this administration is clueless as to what works and how to go about getting it here. Mistake No. 1 was whittling it down from an all-around music festival to one featuring strictly urban music --- even the Rochester International Jazz Festival has mixed it up.