Taste of Minnesota moving to Waconia

Taste of Minnesota is relocating from St. Paul's Harriet Island to the Carver County Fairgrounds in Waconia, Minnesota.

The traditional Fourth of July weekend festival has had a checkered history. After starting successfully at the State Capitol, it moved to Harriet Island in St. Paul. A reboot of the event in 2009 met with mixed success, and went bankrupt amid acrimony with the city of St. Paul and vendors in 2010.

Earlier: St. Paul set to evict Taste of Minnesota from Harriet Island

Taste has been on a hiatus since then, and was set to return to Harriet Island next weekend. But the seventh highest flood on record in St. Paul has forced the festival to relocate.

The event's bill is still topped by headliners including Soul Asylum and Starship, but the location is 40 miles west of the St. Paul riverfront, and doesn't have regular transit service or nearby interstate access.

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