Every year it get more expensive for us parents. Fiesta Garibaldi used to be a free event. Every night for everything our kids are performing we are paying $100 for a family of 4, on top of the entry fee for the kids. We also ran into the issue with the kids not being let into the venue after performances and also not being allowed to take their instruments back into the venue, the option security gave us was to leave the instrument's outside of the venue and they were not responsible. 
This an event we truly love and each year are s part of , however this year we saw alot of inconvenient changes and prices were way too much for us. My child's school also withdrew from performances as us parents would also have to pay out of pocket for those as well per night.