Every spring, Venetian Festival is one Shelbyville’s most well known tours. After a couple residents decided the season needed something to look forward to the tour was started in 1978. Chad Quaid came up with the specifics for Venetian Festival while listening to his favorite CD. The new event did not receive much financial support or much advertising, so the festival started out pretty small, with a lot of local acts..
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It took three years, but eventually Venetian Festival began to establish itself as a premeir event The festival booked bigger acts and the attention the tour received increased exponentially. Soon hotel rooms in the city were being booked months in advance for the dates around Venetian Festival.
Now, Venetian Festival tickets do not last long, generally selling out months before the actual event. The festival is popular enough so that the organizers can just about any group to play. The organizers also respect the link to the community and are sure to ask several local bands to play the smaller stages. Venetian Festival has come along way from the tiny event it started out as, and seems only to grow bigger and bigger every year.
The festival 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.
Ticket Specialists’s extensive website has everything from concert seating charts to tour schedules, making Ticket Specialists the single best one-stop shop for Venetian Festival tickets.