Festival Business

By ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff ⋅ Published: 10/06/2017

To paraphrase Shakespeare, something is rockin’ in Denmark—and it’s usually the Roskilde festival. To ensure that, however, the annual event has partnered with Meyer...

By Larry Jaffee ⋅ Published: 08/15/2017

By Larry Jaffee. “If you build it, they will come” is the stuff of Hollywood movies, and that adage applies to the art and...

By ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff ⋅ Published: 05/02/2017

The first ever Global Citizen Festival India made a serious splash, attracting more than 80,000 attendees to the MMRDA Ground in Mumbai to see...

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 04/03/2017

Take1 Insurance has made a name for itself within the event production community in recent years, most prominently with its involvement with the Event...

By David Keene ⋅ Published: 03/29/2017

It’s been one of the most dramatic changes in the concert landscape in the past 10 years: the spawning of hundreds of new music...

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 03/02/2017

Coachella may be one of the premiere festivals in the world, but that high profile also means that organizers Goldenvoice and parent company AEG...

By Marc Maes ⋅ Published: 03/02/2017

It’s a universal truth, regardless of where your festival is located, that making it happen is never easy, particularly if it is facilitated by...

By ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff ⋅ Published: 02/13/2017

Last year saw the UK’s Capital Sound hit Hungary to provide technical infrastructure for the Sziget Organisation at three major festivals: the four-day Volt...

By Strother Bullins ⋅ Published: 12/19/2016

Two childhood friends from Athens, Georgia recently graced the stage at the 2016 Aspen Music Festival and School (AMF) for a unique project blending...

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 07/29/2016

Festivals are unique events in that they create temporary communities. They bring together artists, crews and thousands of music fans to briefly celebrate together...

By Steve Harvey ⋅ Published: 07/29/2016

SSE Audio Group won for Best Sound at the UK’s Festival Supplier Awards for the second consecutive year at the end of January 2016,...

By Larry Jaffee ⋅ Published: 07/29/2016

Music festivals conjure images of large concentrated numbers of carefree people collectively reveling in live performances by their favorite artists.

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 07/19/2016

While the number of new music festivals seems to rise every year, launching one remains as challenging as ever—perhaps even more so given that...

By Kelleigh Welch ⋅ Published: 06/28/2016

No matter the size of a festival, producers look at their multi-day events as a community—and with anywhere between 5,000 and into the 100,000s...