Southern pride will manifest itself in the form of a new music festival this summer in Railroad Park.

Revival, which will feature seven bands, music, food and more, will take place Aug. 24.



Featured artists include Jason Isbell, The CO, Elenowen, The Dirty Guv'nahs, Leagues, The Apache Relay and Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors.

"We decided to call the event Revival for two reasons," says festival co-promoter Adria Delaune. "First of all, Birmingham hasn't had a festival like this in a few years, so this is a way of sort of resurrecting that. But it's also a celebration of all the great things happening in Birmingham right now, with music, food, and fashion."

Delaune and co-promoter Sari Casper are not Birmingham natives, but chose it as their location because it is "a city on the verge of a cultural renaissance." When they discovered that they would be able to hold the event in Railroad Park, Delaune says that they were thrilled. "It's just a city gem," she says.

When choosing the musical acts for the festival, Delaune says that they "started out casting the net pretty wide, but we actually got all our first choices for the line-up." The bands may seem rather diverse, but they do have a few things in common. "They're all artists who don't fit completely into one genre, and they all have a Southern presence. They play well together,"Delaune says.

This shared southern flavor is an integral part of Revival's purpose, which is to "help Birmingham move up and become a place that people from all over the nation will want to visit," Delaune says. "Our aim and our hope is that this will become a yearly festival, and eventually, a multi-day event."

Early bird tickets ($45-$125) go on sale May 21.

This story was updated to reflect a name change at 1:00 p.m. on May 20.