Tigerfest 2010 ‘up to the students’

With six months left until Tigerfest 2010, the Campus Activities Board is already at work putting together the largest on-campus concert of the year. 

In order to better voice the wants of the students, CAB has released the first of several surveys students can respond to online.

The first survey, which came out Monday, Oct. 26 and is open until Thursday, Nov. 12, has already been taken by more than 1,000 students.

The survey asks about student preferences in terms of what genre band they want to see, how many artists should come and how much they would be willing to pay for tickets.

“We’ve never really asked before... usually we just all sit down and we come up with a list of rock artists and then we put out that survey,” CAB director May Medallada said.

This is the first time a survey has taken place before a list of bands has been announced, according to Medallada.

Tigerfest is usually a rock concert with headlining acts including, recently, the All-American Rejects, The Roots and Dashboard Confessional.

“It is a show for students…it’s just really what the students want, so whatever they’re willing to pay for, what they want to see, what they’d rather have because it is Tigerfest for the students,” Medallada said.

One of the options in the survey is to bring multiple artists to Tigerfest, which would make it more of a festival atmosphere, according to Medallada.

Another option is to bring an even bigger headlining act to Tigerfest, which would mean raising the price of student tickets from $10.

“This is the first year where students that are here have always paid for [Tigerfest],” Medallada said. “My freshman year it cost money up until now I’m a senior.”

Before 2007, Tigerfest was free to Towson students.

“It’s something we had to start doing just because in the past we did bring lesser-known bands that cost a lot less money, so if students do want bigger artists, we’re going to have to pay more for that, and we don’t really have that in our budget so it has to come from somewhere,” Medallada said.

Medallada said that Tigerfest will remain “reasonably priced,” and that a price increase is “up to the students.”

“It just depends on if they would rather pay five or 10 dollars for a bunch of people we don’t really know about, or if they want to pay more for someone big,” she said.

CAB will not know the results of the survey until it ends in November.

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