All posts belonging to the Festivals tag can be found in the list below.
ID&T and more than 30 other festival organisers have filed a lawsuit against the Dutch government after it reimposed several COVID-19 restrictions leading to further cancelled events. ID&T...
Tags: Festivals, ID&T, Legal, NetherlandsFestivals and open-air concerts in France will be able to welcome full capacity crowds from June 30, as part of the government’s latest easing of COVID-19 restrictions. From next week, social di...
Tags: Capacity, Festivals, France, Open-Air ConcertsLatitude Festival will welcome some 35,000 music fans next month after confirming it would go ahead at full capacity as part of the UK Government’s Event Research Programme (ERP). The Suffolk ev...
Tags: ERP, Festivals, Latitude Festival, Pilot EventsUK festivals may not survive if a government-backed insurance scheme against the risk of cancellation is not made available soon, according to MPs on the Public Accounts Committee. The parliamenta...
Tags: Culture Recovery Fund, DCMS, Festivals, UK FestivalsOrganisers of Download Festival, which welcomed 10,000 fans over the weekend, said it is “100-per-cent evidence” that large-scale music events can take place safely in the current climate. Fan...
Tags: Download Festival, Events Research Programme, Festival Republic, FestivalsWomad NZ has confirmed its 2022 dates after securing a NZ$1.9m (£980,000/€1.1m/$1.4m) underwrite from the regional council, providing insurance for the three-day festival if COVID-19 forces it to ...
Tags: Festivals, insurance, Primavera Sound, Womad NZThe UK government has said that festival insurance schemes will not be explored until after restrictions are lifted in June. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the Government would consider prov...
Tags: Cancellation, Festival Republic, Festivals, insuranceMore than a quarter of UK festivals over 5,000 capacity have now been cancelled due to a lack of Government-backed insurance, new research has discovered. The Association of Independent Festivals ...
Tags: AIF, Festivals, insurance, UKMore than 100 independent venues, promoters, and festivals in Los Angeles have formed a coalition to push state and local lawmakers to provide funding for those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Tags: Festivals, LAIVC, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Independent Venue CoalitionNevada’s Burning Man Festival and 2000trees Festival in the UK are the two latest events to cancel their 2021 editions over ongoing uncertainty due to COVID-19. Organisers of the annual counter-...
Tags: 2000trees, Burning Man, Festivals
