69°F8:25 AM This article appears in the March 2011 issue of LouisvilleMagazine. To subscribe, please visit loumag.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".