Owner of Birmingham's hottest music venue! | Josh Williams | Episode 55

Josh Williams is one of the owners and the general manager of Workplay. Workplay has been a staple music venue in Birmingham for over 20 years. Josh has been involved in the revitalization of the venue and has grown their operations to now include 3 of the fastest growing music festivals in Alabama. Today, we sat down with Josh to learn about how he got to where he is today and what exciting things are in the works for the Birmingham music scene.

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Iron Hills Country Festival

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Workplay

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0:00 - intros

1:00 - the history of Workplay

3:30 - How Josh got started in music

7:30 - buying Workplay

12:00 - Hanging out with famous bands

18:00 - Music scene today vs early 2000s

19:00 - The festival kings of Birmingham

22:00 - How to build a music festival

26:00 - What’s the dream for Workplay

31:00 - Advice if you want to go into music

33:00 - Stories from tour 

42:00 - fin