Logan City Limits a success for local businesses and musicians

By Spencer Burt

Local businesses and organizers of Logan City Limits are pleased with the results after the annual music, film and art festival brought a diverse crowd to downtown Logan on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

"Logan City Limits is my baby this year," said Terran Maynard, the events coordinator at Aggie Radio. "It was incredibly successful. In a lot of ways it exceeded my expectations."

Maynard was involved in planning last year's festival, and was appointed by student media program coordinator Nathan Laursen to be in charge this year. Laursen said Maynard and Mikey Kettinger, the Aggie Radio student station manager, did a great job booking all the venues and artists this year.

This was the first time Logan City Limits has been held off campus. Managers of many local businesses were pleased with the increase in sales and exposure that came with the festival.

"It's been very good for us," said Gary Griffin, the manager of the Utah Theatre. “It’s nice to have people know we’re here and what we’re doing." Six movies were shown for free there during the festival. Griffin hopes those who attended these showings will return to the theatre now that they know more about it.

Two small downtown restaurants, The Waffle Iron and Even Stevens sandwich shop, hosted live music as part of the festival. They also saw an increase in customers over the three days.

"It’s been crazy," said Addison Day, a manager at The Waffle Iron. "It’s been way busier than usual.”

Michael Szorik, a manager at Even Stevens, saw a similar increase. "We were super slammed," he said. "Our lunch rush was a lot busier, and all day we just had a nice constant flow."

Maynard said the bands were happy to be involved as well.

"It was way fun. Logan’s a fun crowd," said Erika Goodwin, guitarist and backup singer for the band Brother. "Everyone gets way into it.” Goodwin, who grew up in Logan, was happy to see this event bring students and the general community together.

Maynard said he loved the anticipation leading up to the festival, and seeing how every day turned out. "It felt kind of like Christmas morning," he said.