International festival returning to downtown Houston

The Houston International Festival will be returning to downtown, after a one-year stint on the parking lots of the Reliant sports complex.

Weather and location combined to make last year's international festival one of the most disappointing. One more year like that, and it might have spelled the end of what (until last year) was one of Houston's best festivals.

Kudos to city leaders and festival officials for coming to agreement so that Houston's festival could return to the downtown streets and parks it has called home for most of its history. It never made sense for the festival to move to a generic parking lot given the renewal going on downtown.

This year's theme will be India, and the dates of the festival will be April 23-24 and April 3-May 1.

RELATED COVERAGE: KTRK-13, KHOU-11.

UPDATE: Here are further thoughts from prolific blogHOUSTON commenter Laurence Simon.

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/13/05 07:58 AM | Houston Life | Print | Comments (2)

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