The Campus Festival is one of Louisville’s most famous tours of the year. The festival was started in 1978 after a couple residents decided the season needed something to look forward to. Oliver Piper was hit by inspiration while listening to his favorite tape and finished all the details for Campus Festival in one night. The new event did not receive much financial support or much advertising, so the tour started out pretty small, using a lot of the city's artists..
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It took three years, but eventually word spread and Campus Festival began to establish itself as a premier event The festival began to book acts that were known nationally and the festival started to get much press than when it began. Hotel rooms in the city were soon being booked months in advance for the dates surrounding Campus Festival.
Now one of the hottest events of the year, Campus Festival tickets will not last more than a couple of hours after being released to the public. The festival is now so big that just about any group will say yes if asked to sing. The organizers of the tour have not forgotten where they’ve come from though, and always ask local artists to play the smaller stages. Campus Festival’s organizers have been increasing the scope of the original festival these last few years to accommodate the increasingly eclectic taste of its audience.
This year’s tour is already getting more buzz than last year’s tour, with more big name acts than ever before. The band has all their tour information, from the tour schedule to the latest Campus Festival tickets released, on Ticket Specialists.