re: Anyone else hate the Jazz Fest?

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well you had a stacked day and perfect weather, shouldn't be too surprising the turnout was huge

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No shite.
I'm going to have fun anyway, but they had a few crowd flow choke points that were to the point of not being safe. Usually with rare exemptions, the outside dirt track is an easy way to get around the fest. By 2:00 they had people sitting in chairs almost back to the port-o-lets and fence near Acura. You had people trying to come from both ways and into the event from a back gate in one area. And this was right at the intersection of a cross-over to get back to the main area.

I could sit out by Liuzzas and drink bloody marys for hours talking to people before and after the fest. Love the whole vibe and spirit of the festival.

You still run into a few dumbasses who will say that jazz fest is full of dirty hippies so they don't go.
And then there was the mentally challenged guy I overheard last week say he didn't go to jazz fest because the music was nothing special. He said once you've heard one brass band, you've heard them all.