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Recession played role in Jazz Festival's sales, organizers say

The 36th annual Sacramento Jazz Festival pulled in about the same amount of money as it did last year -- an estimated $1.2 million -- but more people may have attended the festival this year than last year, according to a festival official. Gene Berthelsen, the executive director of the festival, said the troubled economy affected this year's festival. “The poor economy was a factor in why we didn’t do better,” Berthelsen said. The festival staffers will continue to crunch numbers for weeks to come, but preliminary estimates show that this year’s festival drew somewhere between 65,000 and 70,000 people, Berthelsen said. Festival-goers paid an estimated $1.2 million to the festival for t

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