Every fall, Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival is one Champaign’s most well known tours. In 1985, the tour was started when the city noticed its residents were leaving for the weekends because of the lack of big events. Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival became a reality because Erik Molitor took the initial idea and worked out all the details. The festival started as a little event, relying a lot on local artists..
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After a couple of years word spread and Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival received some national attention The tour started to get more acts that had made a name for themselves around the country and it began to warrant the kind of attention its creators dreamed it would receive one day. Soon hotel rooms in the city were being filled months in advance for the dates around Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival.
Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival tickets are now all gone within a couple of days of being released. Where the tour once had to beg band to perform, bands now wait in anticipation to be asked to play. The organizers of Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival have publicly wondered if the event is getting too big and if the festival will soon start to be too expensive for the original fans.
The tour is once again the biggest of its kind this year. More bands than ever will be there with huge names and great up and coming groups.
Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival’s tickets and latest concert information are available on Ticket Specialists, along with the complete tour schedule for the band.