festivals
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Experiencing FoST Fest
“We are creating a unique story world,” said Charles Melcher, the festival’s founder. “Our tag line is ‘All the world’s a stage, come be a player,’ and this is the ultimate expression of that sentiment.” In an article for the…
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Rock Meets Paper
Musicians have always drawn inspiration from literary artists, and vice versa. Over at Lit Hub, Tobias Carroll explores the increasingly literary side of contemporary rock festivals: Perhaps the rise of literary events at music festivals is part of a broader…
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The Sustainability of Music Festivals
As music festivals pile up in the memory of North American summers, the environmental toll of all those plastic water bottles and plastic beer glasses and paper plates covered in chili cheese fry smear unavoidably piles up as well. Some…
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Festivals, Festivals, Festivals
They keep coming. This week the Northeast is pretty booked up with the Governors Ball, Hot 97 Summer Jam, and Mountain Jam 2015 covering a pretty full range of ways to spend a weekend or a day in the sun,…
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FYF 2015 Looks Like It Might Be Worth the Sunburn You’ll Get
The lineup for this year’s FYF Fest was released earlier this month, and the more we look at it, the more we have to admit it might be worth bearing the heat of an August weekend in Los Angeles. The…