Over the years, the Queen City Shout Festival has raised more than $120,000 for local poverty relief organizations. Organizers say this milestone year continues the festival’s two-fold mantra, celebrate the arts and support poverty relief.
The event originally began at Borders bookstore, formerly located in Primrose Marketplace.
“I was tied in with the scene, and I approached my general manager,” said Eddie Gumucio, the event’s founder. “We hosted authors and traveling musicians who were coming through, but after the Christmas season it was always kind of slow. I said, ‘Hey, how about hosting a music series in the cafe?’ So it started there.”…