Bayfest (Mobile)

BayFest
Genre	Music
Dates	early October
Location(s)	Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A.
Years active	1995–2015
Website
http://www.bayfest.com/

BayFest was an annual three-day music festival in the heart of downtown Mobile, Alabama. The festival offered a variety of music including pop, jazz, classic rock, alternative, R&B, rap, gospel, and modern rock. The Launching Pad stage during Bayfest focused on local and regional talent. The event encouraged "going green" by providing recycling throughout the grounds.

After a poor lineup and diminishing interest, organizers for Bayfest announced its ending just two weeks before its planned 2015 festival.

Growing from an initial attendance of 50,000 people in 1995 BayFest became 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 Mudd, 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.

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