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    How to Start Your Own Music Festival
    How to Start Your Own Music Festival
    How to Start Your Own Music Festival
    Ebook26 pages25 minutes

    How to Start Your Own Music Festival

    By Michael Silverman and Robert Silverman

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    Everything you need to know to start a music festival, including getting funding, booking artists, choosing a venue, working with vendors, and much more!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 30, 2015
    ISBN9781483554006
    How to Start Your Own Music Festival
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    Michael Silverman

    MICHAEL SILVERMAN is a baseball columnist for the Boston Herald and has been covering baseball and the Red Sox since 1995.  

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      How to Start Your Own Music Festival - Michael Silverman

      How to Start a Music Festival

      My brother and I have been performing all over North America for over 10 years, and playing in the Midwest since we were teenagers in the 1980s, and we have both developed a love of music festivals. Growing up performing at various street festivals, park festivals and amphitheater fests with names like KDHX Expo, Taste of St. Louis, Riverport Jazz Festival, Earth Day, Budweiser Brewfest, and many more, we decided to start a festival of our own right in the park where we grew up. That was five years ago, and we  are now involved in nine different fests, in a variety of musical styles, encompassing jazz, rock, blues, wine, barbecue, art, fairs with rides and more. We have done indoor, outdoor, multiple stages, street events, educational music classes, food trucks, benefits and many other aspects of festival arrangement.

      Now that we have done it many different ways, and we have the experience to create events as the inspiration strikes, I thought I should share what my brother and I learned with you, whom I assume have questions about how to tackle the many moving parts involved in starting and successfully executing your own music festival.

      Create the Festival You Would Like to Attend

      You probably have an idea about what kind of festival you would like to create. Perhaps you like alternative rock, and want to book alternative rock bands for a daylong concert in an outside venue. Imagine what else you would like to see there. What kind of food and drink would you most enjoy in that setting? For instance, we decided to put together a blues festival. We naturally thought that barbecue would be great to enjoy while listening to the blues. Some things just go together that way. We run four jazz festivals, and people always request that there be wine available. Something about wine and jazz are a natural fit. As you read the following chapters, I hope that you

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