Festival die-hards who were waiting to traipse down to south Jersey for the Vineland Festival, the multi-day, multi-band fest that was “postponed” from this year to a summer 2009 launch date, are going to be disappointed: The festival’s plug has been pulled by C3 Presents, the Texas-based company that also puts on Lollapalooza, thanks to the immediate area being too saturated with multi-day affairs. MORE »
Posts Tagged ‘Festivals’
Cancellations
The 2009 Festival Season Sees Its First Casualty
The inaugural Pemberton Music Festival, which went down last weekend and featured headlining sets by Coldplay, Tom Petty, and Jay-Z, was not without its problems: dust clouds that caused much respiratory distress on days one and two; the threat of rain on day three; members of N.E.R.D. reportedly… MORE »
The inaugural Pemberton Music Festival, which went down last weekend and featured headlining sets by Coldplay, Tom Petty, and Jay-Z, was not without its problems: dust clouds that caused much respiratory distress on days one and two; the threat of rain on day three; members of N.E.R.D. reportedly… MORE »
Meanwhile, At Rocklahoma…
Alyson at Bring Back Glam! provides blow-by-blow coverage of this year’s installment of the hard rock retrofest, which seemingly had it all: Storms! Confusion! Collapsing side stages! Jani Lane staying on pitch! MORE »
Festivals Are For Old People
Sure, you’re outside, the sound is lousy, and he bands are terrible. But if you’re one of the attendees at a European music festival, you have to admit that the experience has gone from “stuck in a torrential downpour in a field full of fecal matter” to something more sophisticated. MORE »
Madison Square Garden Rushing Into The Festival Market Just In Time For The Bubble To Pop
Realizing that two years after a market swells to capacity is the prime time to rush into it, Madison Square Garden Entertainment is looking to buy some 910 acres of New York dairy farmland in order to stage “an annual world-class, three-day music festival” with add-ons like an on-site dance club and Internet cafe beginning in 2010. Sure, the economy is tanking, gas prices are making daily commutes a wallet-busting venture, and ticket sales at the festivals MSG is planning on modeling its new venture on, like Coachella and Bonnaroo, have slowed a bit. But isn’t destroying a bunch of farmable land for the purposes of recreational profit in the earliest stages of a food crisis a fantastic idea? At the very least, it’s causing Springfield, the upstate town where the land is located, to start dividing itself along “pro” and “con” lines! MORE »
A chicken in every pot, and a festival in every state: Live Nation is looking to bring a three-day music festival featuring “family-friendly” acts to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in lieu of the area’s annual Fort Lauderdale Air & Sea Show. They’re even paying for extra police! MORE »
A chicken in every pot, and a festival in every state: Live Nation is looking to bring a three-day music festival featuring “family-friendly” acts to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in lieu of the area’s annual Fort Lauderdale Air & Sea Show. They’re even paying for extra police! MORE »
Looking for another summer festival to hit, but not wanting to go much farther than say…Jackson Hole, Wyoming? MORE »
Looking for another summer festival to hit, but not wanting to go much farther than say…Jackson Hole, Wyoming? MORE »
