Having attended "the taste" many years since its inception; I'm getting the sense that these "taste events" may have run their course and be tapped out.
Hudson was an early adopter, but now nearly every major upper middle class city in NE Ohio has a "Taste of". Despite the press cheering record crowds, attendance felt light the last few times I was there.
Food is expensive and portion sizes are so large there is nothing "taste" about them. Heck, Flip Side was there selling whole burgers, what is "taste" about that?
All in all, after years in, I'm thinking these events have jumped the shark. Time to move on.