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  "overview": "Free Press Houston launched the **Westheimer Block Party in 2005** in an effort to revive some semblance of Houston’s famed Westheimer Street Festival. With neither the resources nor permission to close Westheimer itself, FPH compressed the idea around the intersection of **Westheimer and Taft**, activating stages inside and outside **Numbers, AvantGarden (formerly Helios), Mango’s and La Strada**, along with neighboring parking lots and whatever other usable space could be commandeered.\n\nThe free festival grew from a scrappy neighborhood gathering into a sprawling showcase for Houston music and art, eventually presenting hundreds of bands, artists, installations and performances and drawing as many as **12,000 people**. National acts including **St. Vincent, HEALTH, Dead Prez and Trail of Dead** appeared alongside a deep cross-section of Houston’s independent music community.\n\nMore importantly, the Westheimer Block Party was where **Free Press Houston cut its teeth as a festival producer**: learning stage management, artist booking, crowd control, logistics, extreme problem-solving and, on occasion, how to “pay tribute to HPD in cash.” Those lessons became the production foundation for **Free Press Summer Fest**, which FPH launched in 2009. The Block Party was chaotic, free, intensely Houston and, for a few years, brought a piece of the old Westheimer Street Festival back to Montrose.\n\nThe [spring 2008 announcement](/articles/westheimer-block-party-april-12th) shows how the event combined a free neighborhood festival with a separately ticketed closing program: it advertised fifty bands across six stages and a ten-dollar evening show inside Numbers. Its named stage sites include Numbers, Avant Garden, La Strada and Mango’s. That distinction matters when reading the history of a “free” festival. The announcement also connects the street event to local acts represented in the [Houston Local Band Registry](/collections/houston-local-band-registry), without turning an advertised bill into proof of a completed set.",
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