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CINCINNATINNATI MUSIC FEFESTIVALS Cover story Earned media value: $983,136 $10 off JulJulyy 23-25 Code: Enquirer (513)924-0900 www.cincymusicfestival.com The Enquirer ❚ SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2018 ❚ 1D Four people brought over

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“Do you want to get tickets now?” That’s Joe Santangelo on the phone. It’s Tuesday, around lunch time, and the five phones in this Oakley office won’t stop ringing. And people are calling mostly for one purpose: To get tickets to the Cin- cinnati Music Festival, now just days away from its annual return. So this is a question he’ll ask over and over today. And one that he’s asked thousands of times for the last 50 years or so, when people wanted to see the likes of Whitney Houston, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin and Miles Davis on the festival stages. That’s right. The owner of one of the biggest and oldest events in Cin- cinnati history takes ticket orders. This is the same Santangelo who Fran Santangelo DiBattista and her dad, Joe Santangelo, of The Santangelo Group are the long-time co-promoters has been involved with Cincinnati for the annual Cincinnati Music Festival. LIZ DUFOUR/THE ENQUIRER Music Festival, first called the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival, since he was 13, Want to go? Santangelo who wrote “mom” on that But that day, there were moments stuffing envelopes with tickets for his schedule. that the Cincinnati Music Festival’s older brother and a founder, Dino. First, here’s a closer look at the lineup. She started off, like her father, in did not feel so, well, homey and home- The same one who has quite the Thursday, July 26: MC Lyte, DJ Jazzy the office as an envelope-stuffing kid. grown. story about Michael Jackson, a golf Jeff, Shingo Fashion Show, and Cincin- Now, she is a partner, doing “a lot of On Tuesday afternoon, Lois, Joe cart and a wandering spotlight in Mil- nati’s DJ Vader. things I’m too tired and too old to do,” and Fran all sat at the same table in waukee back in 1978. And who once Joe said with a smile. City Hall with Mayor John Cranley, sold pieces of a shirt John Lennon left Friday, July 27: Charlie Wilson, Still, Fran’s work looked like pick- leaders from the fire and police de- in a Queensgate hotel to pay for a new Xscape, Boyz II Men, Fantasia, After 7 ing up phones and taking those partments, as well as representatives stereo. Saturday, July 28: Jill Scott, The tickets orders Tuesday morning. from major Downtown players like And the one who has been instru- Roots, Common, Keith Sweat, The Some 80 percent of tickets are sold development group 3CDC. mental in making the Cincinnati Mu- O’Jays, Bootsy Collins through this one-room office, in This group now gathers every year sic Festival the largest annual week- quantities as low as 2 and as large as to make sure the city coordination end driver of tourism in the Tristate – Tickets range from $60-150. Visit 5,000. (Group sales also represent the around the festival is set, from picking to the tune of a $107.5 million econom- www.cincymusicfestival.com/tickets majority of tickets sold – Cincinnati up trash to parking buses. ic impact -- according to the Cincin- for more. Music Festival has become a tradition Another one of those big-time mo- nati USA Convention & Visitors Bu- Or call 513-924-0900. After all, a San- for many families, they say.) ments also happened on the phone reau released earlier this year. tangelo will probably answer the Last year, the event drew 83,000 back in the office: On Tuesday morn- But that massive impact – as big as phone. attendees, a majority coming as large ing, representatives from the Oprah one-and-a-half Major League Base- groups traveling from places like Chi- Winfrey Network called. ball All-Star Games, by the way – cago or Los Angeles or New York. Producers are going to cover the starts here, with those telephone That’s a lot of phone calls and some festival July 26-28, with a focus on calls. Look at the weekly schedule post- local folks just walking through the some of the Procter & Gamble experi- And an owner who still picks up the ed on the door: There are “mom” shifts office door to grab a seat or four for the ences, from spa areas to a selfie booth, phone and will stuff an envelope with scribbled on the calendar. celebration of rhythm and blues. at the stadium. (The Cincinnati com- tickets. That’s Joe’s wife, Lois. And there are only four full-time pany is the primary sponsor of the That’s because he is never too far The festival is a family business, employees that handle those thou- event.) away from the fan. Joe said. Always has been. sands. Joe, Lois, Fran, plus Thomas ... The fan, after all, is why he does all His brother, Dino, brought what Knott, who used to work for Macy’s, a Fran coordinated that talk with the of it, from selling the tickets to run- was the French Lick, Indiana, jazz fes- former sponsor of the festival and the Oprah people Tuesday, and she spear- ILLUSTRATION BY CLAY SISK/USA TODAY NETWORK; PHOTOS: PROVIDED AND GETTY IMAGES ning production during the shows tival to Cincinnati in 1961. He was a one non-Santangelo. (Connie Hert- heads the sponsorship. That’s one of July 26-28, he says. jazz performer himself who worked at senberg, Joe’s sister-in-law, also her main roles in the company. “The whole purpose of this busi- a hotel at the time. He saw the poten- helps in the summer.) Another main responsibility? “To JULY 27 | 7:10 JULY 28 ness is so people can come and have a tial of it when the Indiana town no They still sell through Ticketmas- shake things up,” she said. good time,” Santangelo said. “In this longer wanted to host the concept. ter, but they’ve got their own machine One of Fran’s initiatives is the TM day and age, I don’t know what’s more And Joe’s three children have all so they can print off tickets on the Thursday evening programming, add- vs needed than that.” worked the festival since. His son, a spot. So, yes, very mom-and-pop. ing a third night of the festival that is TICKET POST-GAME CONCERT ... pediatrician, will come in from his And Pop is the only one who can geared a bit more toward a younger ELVISTM FREE with purchase of a game ticket. PACKAGE AND ELVIS The Santangelo Group’s office feels Michigan home to help run the box of- figure out how to load the paper in the audience. This year, MC Lyte and DJ PRESLEYTM very much like a mom-and-pop shop. fice at Paul Brown Stadium during the machine. He stepped away from the Jazzy Jeff will perform. ©2018 ABG EPE IP LLC There is actually a mom and a pop festival. phone to to do that Tuesday morning, there most days. It was youngest daughter Fran too. See SANTANGELO, Page 7D

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