Bayou Fest Houston is the brain child of Paul Ehmer (Dimitri's Rail), Hank and Mike Cortez (Music Media Productions). The goal of Bayou Fest is to help raise money for the Layla Grace Children's Cancer Research Foundation and raise money/awareness for childhood cancer.

Bayou Fest was also created to help rejuvenate the music scene in Houston, Texas and bring notice to the extraordinary talent of the core group of high end talended bands based in Houston and regionally.