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Teresa Bender From: Pat Branch Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 9:24 PM To: Jeff Paar; Ben Fehrenbacher; Tom Wilharber Cc: JON GRAHEK; Tom Lee; John Thill; D Love; Steve King Subject: Fwd: scheduling music acts Jeff, Ben, Just in case you talk to J.T., Greg, or other Lions, I wanted you to be aware of this exchange and clear on what we are offering them. This note is a follow -up to your meeting last Tuesday. Parks and Rec sponsors a Music in the Parks program Tuesday nights during the summer. Tom Lee coordinates this program for the Committee. As a highlight of that program, last summer at Fete de Lacs we held a music Jamboree. Last year we had our first Jamboree early Friday evening before the Lions paid band came on. The Jamboree participants are not paid. However, most of them are professionals and they objected to being essentially a warm up band to whoever the Lions selected as the featured band. This year Parks and Rec wants the Jamboree to be the main feature of the evening. We would like the Lions to run the Beer Tent like then have done in the past. If Tom does the Jamboree. And the Lions run the Beer Tent. We all make out well. The Lions get the benefit of the fund raiser without paying for a band. The Jamboree benefits because the Lions Beer Tent will attract an audience for the Jamboree Sounds to me like a good cooperate effort with all parties benefiting Pat Branch Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Lee < TomLee(&nol- tec.com Date: March 22, 2013 8:29:00 AM CDT To: Pat Branch < PBranch(a&CENTERVILLEMN.com > Subject: Re: Fwd: scheduling music acts I spoke with Greg of the Lions about a month ago, offering to host the entertainment portion for the Festival's Friday night, but they were really on the fence about what they wanted to do, so I've done nothing with that yet. I think they have another meeting coming up, I'll mention it again, but if they want me to do that, I'll need to pretty soon. I have 5 of the 8 slots confirmed for M.I.T.P., a couple of these acts are a little more expensive than I'd like, but they are BIG groups (7 players) and they are M.I.T.P. veterans with local ties, so... 1