The Texas Music Festival is one of Philadelphia’s most famous tours of the year. In 1998, the tour was started after the city decided it needed a big act to bring tourists in to jump start the local economy. was ultimately the vision of Gary Slatter, who came up with the idea while listening to his favorite tape. The new event did not receive much financial support or much advertising, so the tour started out pretty small, relying a lot on the city's performers..
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It took some time, but eventually the city's residents embraced Texas Music Festival The tour began to book acts that were known nationally and the tour started to get much press than when it began. Soon hotel rooms in the city were being booked months in advance for the dates around Texas Music Festival.
Now, tickets to Texas Music Festival are sold out within the first few days of their release. Organizers of the festival no that they have a responsibility to ask local groups to sing, even though they could probably get just about any band they want. Texas Music Festival seems to get bigger every year, with more stages and more acts every time around.
This year’s tour is already getting more buzz than last year’s tour, with more big name acts than ever before. The group has all their tour information, from the tour schedule to the latest Texas Music Festival tickets released, on Ticket Specialists.