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January 15, 2013

Study defines Bangor concerts' economic impact

Three years after starting Bangor's Waterfront Concert Series, one UMaine economist has pegged the events' economic impact at just over $30 million.

The figure is based on $18.6 million of concert-related spending and another $11.8 million that Professor Todd Gabe estimates the annual concert series generates, according to the Bangor Daily News.

Those totals include figures that show a growing impact from the concert series, which Gabe's study says generated less than $5 million in 2010 while spurring nearly $16 million in direct and indirect spending in 2012.

Concert promoter Alex Gray told the paper he hopes to see continued growth in the concert series with the addition of a permanent amphitheater  currently under construction.

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