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Picking the all-important date was high on DCMF's list, as was seeking acts at a budget to keep ticket prices low: $78 for a weekend pass. Though we can also partly thank the pandammit, DCMF Round Two has yet to surface.Įach learns from predecessors. Even with Big Boi, Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, Blackberry Smoke and others, rain and high winds washed it out.

TTS thought to fill gaps with its Druid City Music Festival, 18 months in development leading to two days in late August 2019 slammed by, shockingly, weather. Numerous others have tried crawdad fests, or other smaller-scale music events. Even though formed around a core of folk, outsider and visionary artists, Kentuck's tree has been deeply enriched by roots-based music. As such it's closer to Northport's Kentuck Festival of the Arts. As Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports, then the city of Tuscaloosa, took reins, it grew popular, but with just one stage, it's really an art show with music. The Druid City Arts Festival was conceived as a music festival with art.

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Even that free, gold-packed lineup couldn't draw a full house, because. Paul and the Broken Bones, the Commodores, Blind Boys of Alabama, and Moon Taxi, fest hasn't happened. But aside from a one-day 2019 Bicentennial Bash, featuring Jason Isbell, St. The Tuscaloosa Amphitheater, sketched in 2003 as part of riverfront development plans, gave hopes. More: Where will the Moon Winx go? Iconic sign removed after lodge closed downĬityFest closed after 2005, a commendable 20-year run. Takes its toll on things left out, standing. King, Wilson Pickett, Martina McBride, Kool and the Gang, Little Richard, the O'Jays and more, including regional bands under the Weindorf tent, or elsewhere aside from two side-by-side mainstages.īut weather. Though CityFest was putting on a show as part-time endeavor - Birmingham's City Stages began with a substantial foundation - essentially building an aircraft as they flew, Tuscaloosa enjoyed lovely shows, with acts including Willie Nelson, B.B. Typical Bamalama days, acres of tarmac, and too-few tents means, um, healthy beer sales, but a swelter like being shoved under a damp dog blanket discourages those who didn't buy in advance, as Tuscaloosans typically don't. Late August, when they return, remains beastly hot. Mid-summer student numbers decline vastly.Spring and fall lose potential student audience, with dead weeks, A-Days, graduations and other holidays.

Folks in bars won't hear music, unless it's jukebox bands cranking 'Sweet Home Alabama,' 'Brown-Eyed Girl,' and 'Mary Jane's Last Dance' at least once per set.