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Baton Rouge a Possibility for Country Music Festival

Reported by Logan Leger on Sat, Jun 13th, 2009 in News and tagged: , , , ,

We’ve received reports that the producer of the excellent New Orleans Heritage and Jazz Festival is in preliminary negotiations to host a country music festival in Tiger Stadium over the Memorial Day weekend. Mayor Kip Holden proposed the idea to the Metro Council today to spend $300,000 to sponsor the show pending matching sponsorships from the Baton Rouge Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

This is certainly an interesting concept. Although I don’t personally enjoy country music, our area—and generally the South—has a predilection for this genre and so a music festival on the scale of Jazz Fest is certainly economically viable. Hosting it would be a tremendous opportunity for our economy and, specifically, the University. Plus, it’s about time we get our own festival.

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