At Kentucky's 2017 Forecastle Music Festival, All That Glitters Is *Not* Gold

An atypical item on the do-not-bring list

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The summertime phenomenon known as city music festivals alights today in Louisville, Ky. The 2017 Forecastle Music Festival runs July 14-16, features headliners like Weezer and has led Gannett’s Courier-Journal today to espouse a front-page look more akin to an alt-weekly or glossy magazine.

That’s Taylor Kane McLeod as a musical mermaid, sporting splashes of glitter and photographed by Alton Strupp. Those splashes tie into a bigger glitter story this year. Festival organizers have listed glitter as one of the items not allowed at the event.

However, a piece by Courier-Journal reporter Kirby Adams clarifies that organizers mean glitter bombs and shiny specs of the portable kind.

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