Dirt Band, Aug. 5, 1980

The Meadow Brook Music Festival (MBMF) records cover all aspects of the history of the festival. The MBMF Executive Committee series includes meeting minutes as well as documents from other committees (area committees, the finance committee, the ticket committee) that describe the management of the festival throughout its life, from 1964 to 1995. The Reports series contains materials that could not be directly associated with the executive committee or any other managing committee of the festival.

The Correspondence series is organized by topic and by sender. The extensive Financial Files series includes budgets, audit reports, ticket sales, and funding raising activities. The Women's Committee series contains the records of this supporting committee, which operated mostly in the 1970s and 1980s to help raise money, advertise the festival, and organize supporting events. The Publicity Files series includes brochures and other publications produced by the festival as well as their newspaper, radio, and television outreach efforts and news coverage of the festival.

The Subject Files series is organized topically and documents varied aspects of the festival. Particularly noteworthy are the files pertaining to successive managers of the festival, including James Hicks, Sandor Kallai, and Wilbur Kent.

The last four series document the performers, composers, and conductors who performed at the Meadow Brook Music Festival, as well the Detroit Symphony Orchestra which used the Baldwin Pavilion as its summer venue. Each series is organized alphabetically by artist, group, or orchestra, and contains correspondence, contracts, promotional materials, and photographs.