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Old 04-22-2014, 09:33 AM   #211
Zarley
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That's actually a pretty cool look into how those get approved, though. It's interesting that a town like Sylvan Lake would have a festival with Foster the People (Which I believe would be their first show ever in Alberta) just sitting there ready to be announced like that, and then town council comes in and goes "Nope, small jazz festival near by, rejected!".

And then that's it, a cool festival that would have been the hit of the summer and had thousands of Calgarians heading up just disappears and most people will have never even known it was a possibility.
I might be wrong, but I think that "thousands of Calgarians heading up" would be seen as a negative by most Sylvan Lake folks.
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