The Campus Festival is one of Springfield’s most famous tours of the fall. After the city decided it needed a big act to bring tourists in to jump start the local economy the festival was started in 1999. Campus Festival was still in the develop phase when Rick Jasper came with the specific details that have come to define the tour. The festival began as a small event, featuring a lot of the city's artists..

After a rough few years Campus Festival began to establish itself as a premeir event The festival started to book some acts that were known around the country and the festival began to receive national interest. Soon hotel rooms in the city were being booked months in advance for the dates around Campus Festival.

Tickets to Campus Festival are now sold out within the first few days of their release. The tour is now so big that just about any band will say yes if asked to sing. The organizers of the festival have not forgotten where they’ve come from though, and always ask local artists to play the smaller stages. Campus Festival’s organizers have been increasing the scope of the original tour these last few years to accommodate the increasingly eclectic taste of its audience.

The tour is the must see event of the year with more big name groups and more stages than ever before. Campus Festival’s tickets for their latest tour are available on TheSeats.com, along with the complete concert schedule and seating charts.