Music festival’s 2010 bottom line explodes

Talk about music to the ears. Halifax Pop Explosion enjoyed its highest attendance in the event’s 18-year history in 2010, Metro has learned. Executive director Jonny Stevens said Thursday recently tallied cumulative attendance for the five-day indie music festival was 17,325. That’s up approximately 4,000 from the year before. “It’s big,” Stevens said. “There was one year where we had, I think ...