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Event Information:
BayFest is an annual three day music
festival in the heart of downtown
Mobile, Alabama. Growing from an
initial attendance of 50,000 people
in 1995 BayFest has become known for
its array of musical talent suited
to a wide variety of tastes. The
festival now includes over 125 live
musical acts on nine stages and has
an average attendance of more than
200,000 people during the three day
weekend each year. Throughout the
past fifteen years, acts such as 3
Doors Down, Alice in Chains, B.B.
King, The Beach Boys, Big & Rich,
Collective Soul, Hootie & The
Blowfish, Keith Urban, LeAnn Rimes,
Ludacris, The Temptations, Travis
Tritt, Stone Temple Pilots, Uncle
Kracker, and Velvet Revolver have
performed at BayFest. The 2008
lineup included Better Than Ezra,
Bow Wow, Buckcherry, Eric Church,
Kid Rock, Nelly, Puddle of Mud,
Sister Hazel, Three Days Grace, and
Wynonna Judd. BayFest has been voted
Mobile's "Best Annual Event" in
Mobile Bay Monthly magazine six
times in its eleven years,
surpassing Mardi Gras. It has been
named as one of the Southeast
Tourism Society's "Top 20 Events"
several times since 1995. The
festival is organized each year by
BayFest, Inc., a non-profit
organization consisting of more than
1000 non-paid volunteers. All ticket
sales are invested directly back
into the festival for upcoming
events.
Mobile
is the third most populous city in
the U.S. state of Alabama and is the
county seat of Mobile County. It is
located on the Mobile River and the
central Gulf Coast of the United
States. The population within the
city limits was 195,111 during the
2010 census. It is the largest
municipality on the Gulf Coast
between New Orleans, Louisiana, and
St. Petersburg, Florida. Mobile is
the principal municipality of the
Mobile Metropolitan Statistical
Area, a region of 412,992 residents
which is composed solely of Mobile
County and is the third largest
metropolitan statistical area in the
state. Mobile is included in the
Mobile-Daphne–Fairhope Combined
Statistical Area (CSA). The combined
statistical area has a total
population of 591,599, also the
second largest in the state.
Lineup includes:
Charlie Wilson and Mary Mary,
Journey, Pretty Lights, Al Green,
Luke Bryan, Pat Benatar, Willie
Nelson, Mobile Big Band.
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