Craving fresh music festival news?

There are many websites that Google hits when you type in “music festival news” in the search bar. But which news are you looking for? One of the most helpful user-friendly sites I’ve picked up on is Music Festival Junkies. This website has the complete 2012 guide to music and art festivals in the United States, Canada, and throughout Europe. For any interest you may have regarding top festival cities, top free festivals, and unique festivals, you name it this site can be your information tank for it! Music Festival Junkies offer more than just upcoming news and bulletins, they also have contact information listed if you would like to write for them! The pieces I have read so far are most intriguing and demonstrate innovation and creativity for these festivals all over the world. This article by Vito Valentinetti entitled A Good Idea: Science At Music Festivals is from the Green Man Festival located in the Black Mountains of Wales. It is an awesome read if you’re particularly interested in science! 

Pictured below is from the festival in Einstein’s Garden where festival-goers can ride bicycles and together help power an offbeat music performance according to Valentinetti. 

If traveling to the Black Mountains of Wales is a little out of your entertainment budget, Music Festival Junkies have several other areas of the site you can frequent to find the perfect festival destination for you. This team clearly demonstrates their dedication to covering the experience, the scene, and the music with news, lineups, reviews, and commentaries. With an easy to navigate page, you can filter through which festivals or news topics you’re most interested in and subscribe to their newsfeed. The combination of music, art, science, and love of nature you can experience through this site is sure to attract any eager festival-goer this season!

CounterPoint Music Festival Recap

My interest in music & art festivals started in the summer of 2010, when I bought a ticket to Bonnaroo from a friend who couldn’t go at the last minute.  I had barely even heard of Bonnaroo at the time, and my knowledge in electronic music and dubstep was very limited. A few months prior to that, I attended three underground electronic music shows in New Orleans in one night. That adventure set me on my path to change everything I wanted to study in school. Before those shows I was a political science/pre-law major, after some serious thought and consideration I changed my major to Telecommunications & Film, pre-law. Which is essentially TV/Film/Radio, and the closet major my college had to the direction I was wanting to go in. Since then I have worked on music festivals and attended several of them. I worked on DeLuna Fest in Pensacola Beach as a camera operator for two years in a row and loved it. Currently, I am working on my Master of Science degree in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University. My goal is to be able to obtain a professional career in producing music festivals nationally. Until then, I will use this blog as a resource for providing readers with new insights on what is going on in the live music & art festival world, as well as new breakthroughs in electronic music. 

Last month I attended Counter.Point Music Festival held in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the first festival I’ve been to where most of the music was predominately all electronic. Various acts like Big Boi from Outkast also yielded popular masses from this demographic. What I thought was the most innovative consumer activity this festival had was a project called Connect Live. Patrons of the festival visit the Connect Live tent to sign up for an app that allows them to “scan-in” their badge at various stage locations and be entered to win backstage passes, artist meet-and-greets, and select other offers. Festival go-ers head to their favorite performer’s stage, and spot a tall triangle-tower where they can scan their new badge 30 minutes or so before the artists performs.  As they travel throughout the festival grounds, on-foot photographers spot the Connect Live badges and take professional photos and upload them to Counter.Point Live!  Above is one of their photos from the second day of the festival I found from their website!

People often ask me where I hear all the new music I’m so into, and how I know about upcoming shows and festivals. I’m not sure how I came across it, but the only blog I read every single day is thissongissick.  This blog posts awesome accounts of new music in several genres and styles other than electronic music. It also posts new and exciting events coming in areas all over the U.S. I’m not a coffee drinker, but if I was …this is the website I would read daily with my “morning cup.” It’s informative, but fun and introduces new music with a different spin on it. Major festival news and updates also come from this one blog, and is originally how I heard about Counter.Point Music Festival 2012.

Below is a video from the festival, I already wish I were back there!