As a UF freshman, Laila Fakhoury hung a poster of Earl Sweatshirt above her bed in her apartment.
She couldn’t have imagined that a decade later she’d book the rapper to headline the nationally recognized festival she co-produced.
Fakhoury, the 28-year-old co-founder of How Bazar and Dion Dia Records, also didn’t expect the Big: Culture & Arts Festival to go viral as organically as it did this year, having garnered attention from music news outlets like The Fader. But notoriety was never top of mind for her…