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Staging Common Ground Music Festival presents challenges

Among the many music festivals here in the mid-Michigan area, Common Ground is the biggest. Every year in July, thousands flock to Lansing’s Riverfront Park to hear acts from a wide variety of genres: rock, blues, country, R&B, hip hop, and on and on.Meridian Entertainment Group is the main coordinator of the festival each year. Co-owner Kevin Meyer and his daughter Jenna Meyer, marketing director for Meridian, spoke with Current State host Mark Bashore about making it all happen.

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