Photo by Erik Hess

Dave Matthews at River's Edge 2012.

The River's Edge Music Festival will not be back in 2013, Live Nation officials say. The $4.8 million, two-day event on St. Paul's Harriet Island debuted last June with headliners Dave Matthews Band and Tool, as well as the Flaming Lips, Scissor Sisters, Diplo, and several others spread over multiple stages.

According to reports, this is a hiatus as opposed to a full-on cancellation. The event brought live music back to the popular festival ground near St. Paul after Taste of Minnesota went bankrupt in 2010, and though attendance was far from peak, showed a hint of what could be.

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Kudos to the diligent folks at MPLS.TV for capturing the variety of concert-goers at the recent River's Edge Music Festival. Intrepid reporter Ula Brown tracked down a Tool fan, a Batman fan, a hula-hoop enthusiast, that guy in the cow costume, and several others roaming around Harriet Island in unique outfits who were willing to respond to the ultimate quandary: What the fuck are you wearing?
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Photo by Erik Hess

River's Edge Music Festival 2
with Dave Matthews Band, The Flaming Lips, Puscifer, Poliça, Awolnation, Diplo, Mutemath, Delta Spirit, K. Flay, AM & Shawn Lee, Mexican Institute of Sound, Civil Twilight, Hey Rosetta!, Kids These Days
Harriet Island, St. Paul
Sunday, June 24, 2012

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If Saturday at Harriet Island was highlighted by metal, then Sunday was a day reserved for jam bands. For a festival that, at first glance, looked like it picked its lineup out of a hat, Live Nation did a good job selecting acts that would draw people to Harriet Island like ants flocking to an abandoned piece of fried cheese curd.

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Photo by Nick Patton

Skrillex's next Twin Cities visit could be to about 1,000 times as many people as this 2011 gig at Skyway Theatre.

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The inaugural running of the River's Edge Music Festival will bring Tool, Dave Matthews Band, Diplo, the Flaming Lips, and 24 other artists to Harriet Island on the weekend of June 23-24.

And now that the event's promoter Live Nation has let the kitty out of the bag about this year, the focus is already on a more-ambitious slate for 2013. Get ready for a lot more local Live Nation presence in the festival sphere because the concert giant has signed a five-year minimum contract with St. Paul.

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