‘A vicious cycle’: SunFest’s big music bet thrilled millions, then drove it out of business

There will be no stages splayed across Flagler Drive next weekend on West Palm Beach’s downtown waterfront . No floating booze barges, no throngs of fans bellying up to the bellowing amplifiers.

The downtown streets will be comparatively still — open to traffic and absent the massive cast-of-thousands revelry that once was as certain as humidity on the first weekend of May.

SunFest, Palm Beach County’s largest live music event , has come to an end, for now, after 40 festivals in a 42-year span. Interrupted only by the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival drew millions of people to the city’s waterfront over the years, bringing some of music’s biggest names to generations of fans gathered along the Intracoastal Waterway…

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