Louder Than Life saw massive crowds for day three, and NuluFest invited more than 100 vendors to East Market Street.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Despite the weather, two major Louisville festivals made the best of a rainy Saturday.
Louder Than Life saw huge crowds today for day three of the 10th annual rock festival. Attendees showed up in rain gear and rocked out in a muddy mosh pit.
“We went out to the car for like an hour and warmed up, and now we’re going back in,” festivalgoer Mackenzee Cooper said. She was able to walk in and out of festival grounds thanks to a relaxed re-entry policy.
A sea of festivalgoers were rocking out after Friday’s show was called off due to heavy rain and strong winds.
“It would have been terrible if we had tried to be out here,” festival attendee Taylor Blair said. “It would have been miserable, so it was definitely the right decision.”
Fans are embracing the storms as weather conditions became more mild and the parties resumed.
“I like music in the rain,” festivalgoer Jacob Davis said. “There’s nothing more iconic than it. So it’s pretty fascinating to watch how they can still perform how they do, and still be in the rain and not care.”
The festival said in an Instagram post that Friday single day ticketholders could use their pass on Saturday or Sunday.
The event is expected to bring about 200,000 attendees to the fairgrounds.
In the Nulu neighborhood, NuluFest closed down Market St. for it’s 14th annual block party. Attendees here were also braving the weather.
“Normally rain brings gloomy moods but, nobody’s gloomy,” Brenna Shields, owner of Secret Recipe, said. “Everybody is happy.”
She said she spent late nights preparing homemade treats for the festival, because her goal was to get the shop’s name out to a huge crowd.
“Unfortunately, it was a little different just coming here,” Shield said “It was mostly because of the rain and because of that hurricane that brought all of the rain, so that was a little disappointing. But, I still think we’re getting our name out there.”
She was one of the roughly 100 vendors at NuluFest.
Lauren Hendricks with the Nulu Business Association said regardless of the wet weather, the community showed out.
“As long as it was going to be safe for us to be here, we were going to do it,” Hendricks said. “We were going to shut down the streets, have a good old fashioned block party and just support these businesses.”
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