Greeson: New Riverbend Festival better than no Riverbend at all

Jay Greeson

Riverbend started Wednesday. Tokens are gone. Pins are gone. Week-plus downtown crowds are, you guessed it, gone too.

Welcome to the new Riverbend Festival.

It will take some adjustments from all of us, and there will be some growing pains.

Well, hopefully, there will be growing pains, because the simple truth in this day and age is this: Welcome to a new Riverbend, which is way better than a dead Riverbend.

Seriously.