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Festival Preview | LouFest Founder Brian Cohen: “St. Louis is about to join a select group of cities that have a world class music festival.”

The lure of a music festival is appealing — a huge list of bands you love, a hip environment, loads of things to do. It all seems so perfect and incredibly accommodating. But if you’ve been to a huge music festival, you know it can also be a lot of work to get from stage … Read more

Festival Preview | LouFest Founder Brian Cohen: “We continually assess all aspects of the festival to make sure it gets better each year.”

The sun sets on LouFest 2013 | Photo by Jason Gonulsen In 2010, LouFest started with a song called “Lucky Break.” The band who played it, St. Louis’ The Bottle Rockets, wasn’t even supposed to be on the bill. They had been a last-minute replacement — catching their “lucky break” — and it was fitting … Read more