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How Churchill Downs Entertainment could have made HullabaLOU work [Music]

Someone who's never planned an event larger than a cocktail party gives advice on how to host a music festival that makes a profit (or at least loses less than $5 million)

After losing a reported $5 million on the inaugural HullabaLOU, Churchill Downs Inc. cancelled next year's festival and put down its entertainment division today. In a press release, CDI blamed the festival's poor showing on hot weather and a cold economy.

HullabaLOU 2011 cancelled, Churchill Downs Entertainment dissolved [News]

Churchill Downs Inc. cancels music festival, puts downs entertainment division after 2010 events fail to win, place or show profits

Churchill Downs Inc. followed Richard Marx's lead and bailed on HullabaLOU, canceling its attempt at a music festival in 2011, just two months after announcing it would in fact return next year.

Louisville news: Derby City's Donatella Versace lookalike's fate is with the jury [News]

Local news for Aug. 5
  • "Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo said Wednesday he supports Attorney General Jack Conway, ending weeks of questions about whether Mongiardo would endorse the man who narrowly beat him in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary." Our long national nightmare is over. [Bluegrass Politics]
  • "House Minority Leader John Boehner was in Louisville this week to help

HullabaLOU Photo Roundup: Dave Matthews Band Fans [Music]

See if you can spot the difference between the Kenny Chesney fans and the Dave Matthews Band fans. I'll give you a hint - there's more to it than the headgear.

See if you can spot the difference between the Kenny Chesney fans and the Dave Matthews Band fans. I'll give you a hint - there's more to it than the headgear.
 

HullabaLOU Photo Roundup: Kenny Chesney Fans [Music]

Straw coyboy hats and cowboy boots were the outfit of choice at HullabaLOU on Saturday. For those of you who think we're showing off too much lovely lady flesh check out our equal opportunity photo gallery of sexy shirtless men.

Straw coyboy hats and cowboy boots were the outfit of choice at HullabaLOU on Saturday. For those of you who think we're showing off too much lovely lady flesh check out our equal opportunity photo gallery of sexy shirtless men.

HullabaLOU Photo Roundup: Shirtless Men of the Infield [Music]

It wasn't all potbellies and leathery flesh on the infield at HullabaLOU. Check out some of the sexy men who did us the kindness of going shirtless to beat the heat.

It wasn't all potbellies and leathery flesh on the infield at HullabaLOU. Check out some of the sexy men who did us the kindness of going shirtless to beat the heat.

Kenny Chesney's fan seduce a rock and roll girl with their tailgating country ways at HullabaLOU [Music]

One woman's tale of the most wholesome afternoon she's ever spent drunk. I wasn't a Kenny Chesney fan before HullabaLOU, but the next time he's here in Louisville I'm buying tickets just so I can hang out with the tailgaters.

Kenny Chesney didn't have a tractor on stage, but all the ladies still thought he was sexy at HullabaLOU [Music]

A rock and roll girl is won over by Kenny Chesney's infectuously enthusiastic fans and foot tapping music.

There's a reason Kenny Chesney was Saturday night's HullabaLOU headliner. This man knows how to rule a stage.

All day long I talked to die hard fans who couldn't wait for a chance to see him perform live. There were countless people in cowboy boots and straw hats. I talked to fans who came from New Jersey to Michigan, some of whom have saw him 10 times or more and keep coming back.

HullabaLOU review: Dave Matthews Band [Music]

Dave Matthews Band is awesome...enough said.

Dave Matthews Band headlined Sunday's HullabaLOU festival at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY.  Dressed all in black, Dave Matthews himself exclaimed to the crowd, "I thought it would smell a little more like horse shit!" and then ripped in to "You might die trying".

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