Whatever else there is to say about this year’s LouFest, it was, without a doubt, the most St. Louis-centric in the festival’s now seven-year history.
2016’s was the first LouFest in three years to be produced exclusively by Listen Live Entertainment, the company responsible for founding the festival in 2009. Listen Live had been partnering with festival giant C3 Presents (the company responsible for Lollapalooza and the Austin City Limits Music Festival, among several others) since 2013 in order to bring in bigger names to headline the annual event.…