One of Philadelphia’s biggest festivals of the year is KCRW's World Festival. The festival was started in 1975 after a couple residents decided the season needed something to look forward to. was ultimately the vision of Abrahams Hart, who came up with the idea while listening to his favorite music. The new event did not receive much financial support or much advertising, so the tour started out pretty small, featuring a lot of local performers..
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After a couple of years the residents really embraced KCRW's World Festival The festival started to book some acts that were known around the country and the festival began to receive national interest. The city was soon blocking off traffic for city blocks on the dates of KCRW's World Festival.
Tickets to KCRW's World Festival are now sold out within the first few days of their release. Where the festival once had to beg group to play, groups now wait in anticipation to be asked to play. KCRW's World Festival used to be concerned with getting enough acts to fill out the bill, but now is starting to worry of the event is getting too big.
This year’s festival is already getting more buzz than last year’s festival, with more big name acts than ever before. The band has all their tour information, from the tour schedule to the latest KCRW's World Festival tickets released, on Ticket Specialists.