Episode 14 Logan Lewis - ”Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home”

Logan Lewis, Executive Director of Red River Revel, Inc, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development with the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

 

0:30 1. Logan, on February 1 of this year you became the new Executive Director of Red River Revel, Inc. Red River Revel, Inc. is the 501c3 nonprofit organization that brings annual events to Northwest Louisiana, including Red River Revel Arts Festival, CORK: A Red River Revel Wine Event, the Shreveport Farmers’ Market, and Shreveport BREW.

 

Talk to me about the Revel. Why is this festival important for our community? What makes it great and how will it be even better in the years to come?

 

21:17 2. In your new role, as well as in your previous role working for six years as the Director of Marketing and Memberships for the Independence Bowl, you have been in the middle of some of the most important events this community has to offer.

 

Talk to me about your views of community. You obviously see the value in bringing people together. Who taught you this sense of community or how did you come to determine that building community is important?

 

36:04 3. You currently head up two musical acts in your “free time” – Logan and the Legendaries and Logan Lewis and the Tree Fiddy Trio. Talk to me about the local music scene. Is it healthy? Where is it thriving, how could it continue to evolve to become even more vital?

 

45:25 4. For a number of years now, you have been in a position of selling the Shreveport-Bossier area, whether it was marketing a football game in December and trying to entice people to travel into the area for the event or convincing musical acts or artists to come participate in the Revel or Farmers Market or one of the other numerous events you oversee. When you are selling our strengths, what do you emphasize? Or, in other words, how do you sell this area to someone who has never been here before?

 

51:08 5. What is holding us back from being one of the great, small cities in America?

 

59:52 6. What will propel us forward in the years to come?