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The Bunbury Music Festival is a three-day music festival in
Cincinnati, Ohio
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, United States, at Sawyer Point Park & Yeatman's Cove on the banks of the Ohio River
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. Each annual event typically features over 100 acts performing on three to six separate stages through the park. The festival was founded by MidPoint Music Festival co-founder and former Fountain Square
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In the United States, there are numerous fountain squares, many of which are actually called "fountain square." T ...
managing director Bill Donabedian. The festival's inaugural event took place July 13–15, 2012. In 2014, Bunbury was purchased by PromoWest Productions, an entertainment company operating out of Columbus, Ohio.
The most recent iteration of the event occurred May 31 through June 2, 2019. It has been on hiatus ever since.
List of events
Namesake
The name "Bunbury" was chosen by festival founder Bill Donabedian after he heard the word used inOscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
's play ''The Importance of Being Earnest
''The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious ...
''. He chose the word because he thought it sounded whimsical and he liked the definition: "to have a made up excuse to get out of doing something boring." In Wilde's play, the character Algernon utilizes the fictional character named Bunbury as an excuse for getting out of undesirable situations such as family events. Not to be confused with the Western Australian city of Bunbury.
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* * {{official website, https://bunburyfestival.com/ Festivals in Cincinnati Music festivals in Ohio Music of Cincinnati