All posts belonging to the Festivals tag can be found in the list below.
Organisers of the Irish festival Electric Picnic were unable to secure insurance to cover the 2021 event over the possibility of it being cancelled. The result means that organisers Festival...
Tags: Covid-19, Electric Picnic, Festivals, Finance, insurance, Live Music, Live NationAustralian company Tixel, a marketplace for the buying and selling of tickets, has launched in the UK. Tixel has appointed senior personnel to oversee the growth of partnerships and the company, a...
Tags: Europe, Festivals, Marketplace, Reseller, Tixel, UKThere is “no evidence” to suggest that a new strain of the Delta Covid-19 variant is linked to festivals and live events, according to Dr Susan Hopkins, COVID-19 strategic response director for P...
Tags: Festivals, Live EventsMore than 180,000 fans flocked to Serbia’s EXIT Festival last weekend, marking Europe’s largest music event since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. The four-day event, which became the ...
Tags: Europe, Exit Festival, Festivals, Major Events, Reopening, SerbiaID&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 NZ
