Christian Music Festival May Have Sung its Last Tune

The Ichthus Festival, the oldest Christian music festival in the U.S., just finished its 42nd year, but there's no guarantee of a 43rd, according to CNN's Belief Blog. "What happens in August and September will determine where we go and how we look at 2012," Ichthus Ministries CEO Mark Vermilion said. For the past six years, the concert series has been losing money. Ichthus Ministries says it has no choice but to sell the 110-acre festival site at a time when the real estate market is soft. "It's not our desire to move from the land," Vermilion says. "It doesn't make sense for us to own the land when we're using it one month out of the year." Ichthus began in 1970 when a seminary professor decided Christians needed their own version of Woodstock.