Bonnaroo festival said to gross $15M

AP, Jun 20, 2006 7:19 pm PDT
The fifth annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival grossed $15 million, according to a report on Billboard.com.

About 80,000 fans attended the sold-out, four-day festival that ended Sunday.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Radiohead, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Beck, Sonic Youth, Oysterhead, Phil Lesh and dozens of other musical acts performed during the event, held on a 700-acre farm.

The festival grossed $13.4 million last year, and $14.5 million in 2004.

Billboard ranks Bonnaroo as the top-grossing music festival in the world.

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