Brett Mosiman
Don’t look now, but the mainstream news outlets in Kansas City are asleep at the wheel…
Again.
For example, nobody even noticed that Crossroads KC, Wakarusa and Thunder On The Mountain founder/concert promoter Brett Mosiman has been going through a particularly dramatic state of good and bad times.
Like last fall, when Mosiman parted company at season’s end with the outdoor concert venue downtown known as Crossroads KC. A venue he cofounded and booked the lion’s share of the concerts at more than a dozen years back.
No word on what exactly happened, but rival promoter Jeff Fortier is now large and in charge.
On top of which, a few months back, Mosiman sold his Lawrence live music club The Bottleneck , rendering him all but out of the concert biz after 30 years.
That’s the bad news…now the good.
Jeff Fortier
Just last month Mosiman hit a five-year jackpot of $7 million, winning a judgement in his five year lawsuit against a consortium of Colorado dudes who allegedly did Mosiman wrong. Resulting in the death of his fabled Wakarusa concert fest.
Chances are the unanimous jury verdict Mosiman won right here in KC will be appealed, but he’s confident of cashing in on a seven-figure payday sometime in the next year or so when it all gets sorted out.
The bottom line: one of the area’s top concert promoters appears to be at his career’s end.
And it will be interesting to see how Fortier handles this year’s schedule the Crossroads.
