By Dave Wedge
(Bostonherald.com) A music festival that Mayor Thomas M. Menino personally welcomed to Boston last year has a new dance partner. The weeklong Together fest that celebrates the surging dance music genre is moving across the river to Cambridge after officials there cut in an impressive perks package.
Together organizer David Day said the growing festival’s move is strictly business: “These young people have money and travel to see their favorite producers and DJs. If Cambridge is more open to them spending their money in Cambridge, well, so be it.”
Menino issued a proclamation hailing the Together festival last year, with events based at Mass. College of Art and Northeastern University. This year, the epicenter of the April 2-8 event will be Central Square, where Cambridge City Councilor Ken Reeves and the Central Square Business Association helped arrange free space for Together’s headquarters. Morris Naggar, whose family’s 3MJ Realty is donating the space, said, “It’s a really cool thing they’re doing. And the music industry, really the pulse of it, is in Central Square.”
Parties and concerts will be held in both cities, but exhibits, panels and other events will be staged at Le Meridien Hotel in red-hot Central Square, where Day said they got a good deal. Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson, a Together panelist last year, pledged: “I will be fighting to have the Together festival come back to the other side of the bridge next year.”
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