KC Chamber of Commerce proposing need for arts festival

But then Jim Heeter, the chamber’s executive director, started talking about something that had real potential: a Kansas City arts festival, something like the Edinburgh Festival, the Miami Book Fair or the Spoleto Festival, a 17-day spring extravaganza in Charleston, S.C. The more I thought about this, the more it seemed like a great idea.

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