One of Springfield’s most highly anticipated tours of the fall is CMA Music Festival. After the city’s residents decide they wanted a huge celebration in the ample city parks the tour was started in 1996. The specifics for CMA Music Festival were developed by Rick Abbott, who came up with them while listening to his favorite cassette tape. The new event did not receive much financial support or much advertising, so the tour started out pretty small, using a lot of local acts..

It took a few years, but eventually word spread and CMA Music Festival received some national attention The festival booked bigger acts and the attention the tour received increased exponentially. Hotel rooms in the city were soon being booked months in advance for the dates around CMA Music Festival.

CMA Music Festival tickets do not last long now, generally selling out months before the actual event. The tour is popular enough so that the organizers can just about any band to play. The organizers also respect the link to the community and are sure to ask several local bands to play the smaller stages. CMA Music Festival’s organizers have been increasing the scope of the original festival these last few years to accommodate the increasingly eclectic taste of its audience.

The stages will be packed with more big name acts than ever before, making the tour one of the biggest of its kind this year. CMA Music Festival’s tickets are available at TheSeats.com, along with the latest tour information and concert schedules.