Posts tagged festival production
How Long Does It Take to Get Good at Festival Production?

A line cook in a busy restaurant runs something like three hundred services a year. Three hundred times, the tickets come in, the pressure builds, something goes wrong, and they find out within minutes whether their fix worked. By the end of year one, they've had more reps than most festival producers get in a decade. Because here's the thing nobody tells you when you start in…

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The Emotional Power of Live Music Is Your Job

It is closing night. The headliner is twenty minutes from walking out. The field that started this morning as a thousand separate people has become one body leaning toward the stage, and you can feel the air change before a single note plays. You have felt that shift before. The moment a…

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