Virgin Mobile FreeFest headliners redeem inclimate weather conditions
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on the 2013 Virgin Mobile FreeFest, including its fundraising, weather and performances.
- The News-Letter reported that an estimated 50,000 attendees helped FreeFest reach a cumulative $1 million for charities serving homeless youth.
- The paper reported that the Sept. 21 festival took place at Columbia’s Merriweather Post Pavilion and ran for 12 hours across three stages.
- The article says rain began around midday, sending some people home and moving others from outdoor stages to the Pavilion’s covered space.
- The reporter writes that The Avett Brothers and Vampire Weekend performed after the weather worsened, and that the festival ended after Vampire Weekend’s encore.
- The paper reported that many Hopkins students took school buses provided by the Student Government Association back to Homewood.