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Life Is Beautiful a finalist for Billboard’s Top Festival award

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St. Vincent performs during the second day of the Life Is Beautiful festival in Downtown Las Vegas on September 22, 2018.
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Less than a month after throwing the biggest—and some would say best edition—of its six-year Las Vegas life, Life Is Beautiful has received a significant honor on the international music scene: being named one of three finalists for Billboard's Top Festival award.

Life Is Beautiful 2018: Day 3

Along with Downtown Vegas’ annual music, art and food gathering, Lollapalooza Brazil and San Francisco’s Outside Lands are up for the award, which will be handed out on the final night of this year’s Billboard Live Music Summit, November 13 at the Montage in Beverly Hills, California.

“It fills me with so much joy to see our team, our city and our fans appropriately recognized for what is the product of an incredible amount of passion and hard work,” Life Is Beautiful CEO Justin Weniger said. “It was a particularly meaningful year for the City of Las Vegas on a lot of fronts. We’re so proud of not only the resilience but the growth of our Vegas community. In a lot of ways what we accomplished together in 18 city blocks of Downtown Las Vegas this September is a testament to that.”

This year’s Life Is Beautiful, which featured performances by The Weeknd, Arcade Fire, Florence + The Machine, Travis Scott, DJ Snake, Odesza, N.E.R.D, Death Cab for Cutie, Tyler the Creator, Justice, St. Vincent, Galantis and dozens more, drew a combined crowd of more than 180,000 over its three days.

Three Las Vegas venues are also up for 2018 Billboard Live Music Awards: Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, for Top Venue (Under 10,000 Seats); the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, for Top Venue (Under 5,000 Seats); and the Flamingo Showroom, for Top Club (Under 2,000 Capacity).

Other prestigious Billboard awards include Breakthrough Artist, Top World Tour and Top U.S. Tour.

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