Taste Of Minnesota Finds A Home

The event is expected to take place July 3-6 and feature acts like Soul Asylum, Joe Nichols and Halestorm.

Troubles began when its original location at Harriet Island Park became submerged from a flooding Mississippi River. Producer Linda Maddox stressed that the event was not canceled, only relocating. She found her new location June 25: The Carver County Fairgrounds in Waconia.

“It’s been trying,” Maddox told CBS News. “We talked to so many different places and so many different people.”

She assumed some vendors will likely drop out of the event.

“I would think with all that extra distance there maybe a couple of food vendors that might pass on this year,” she said.

Maddox previously said her team was looking at soccer fields and baseball fields to host the event.  Meanwhile, Internet grew familiar with the flooding because of a giant clam that was dislodged from a playground at Harriet Island Park, and the local news coverage of the floating clamshell made the rounds.

Gov. Mark Dayton was planning to ask President Obama for federal aid when he visited Minnesota June 26.
A Taste of Minnesota was founded by Maddox’s late husband, Ron, in 1983. It was sold to International Event Marketing in 2009, which filed for bankruptcy protection the following year. Linda Maddox announced in October her intention to revive the event.