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Red River Revel in Shreveport
The Red River Revel is an arts festival held in downtown Shreveport, combining visual art exhibits and sales with live music, theater and food vendors along the Red River waterfront. Held each fall since the 1970s, it gives regional and national artists a public marketplace within a broader community arts celebration.
Shreveport sits on the Red River in northwest Louisiana, a city whose downtown waterfront has undergone periodic reinvestment efforts over the decades as the city sought to draw residents and visitors back to its historic urban core.