Music festivals are facing a crisis. On the brink of what should be another exciting summer festival season, dozens of music festivals are shutting down. The trend has been simmering for years — the ...

Eric Fillion receives funding from Queen's University and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Ajay Heble receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research ...

The Maryland festival scene is something truly special. It’s not just the major music lineups or crab feasts, but the sheer variety of events that span every corner of the state. After hearing so many ...

Rarely in recent decades has the festival circuit been as disrupted as it has in the past 12 months. A confluence of local and global issues — from war to inflation, political unrest to societal ...

Music is the best way to travel. In other words, music festivals can be a conduit through which to see the world. Whether it’s a trip to the Caribbean, the French Alps or Thailand; an urban vacation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sophie Cannon covers arts and culture from Brooklyn and beyond. It’s the sound of stages being set up, venues being booked and the ...

Electronic dance music, or EDM, represents a broad range of subgenres created primarily for nightclubs, raves and festivals. The earliest EDM dates back to disco in the 1970s. The genre has since ...

Sam Whiting receives funding from Creative Australia and the Australasian Performing Right Association. Ben Green receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Australasian Performing ...

When organizers were mapping out this year’s pop-punk Summer School tour, they envisioned it as a daylong event akin to its spiritual predecessor, the Warped Tour. Although most shows on the July and ...

From beaches to hilltops, young people are driving a boom in literary events as they read more in India’s dozens of native languages. The Kerala Literature Festival, held in late January in the beach ...