music festivals

Music festivals are canceling their events like maybe never before. Call it the music festival recession.

At festivals like festivals like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, Ingela Travers-Hayward and William Perry hand out the medication and train people who hope to use it to save a life.

Festival promoters are allowing lifesaving medication as fentanyl deaths surge, but volunteers are often left to distribute it, and more controversial forms of harm reduction aren't openly allowed.

The Newport Jazz Festival, founded in 1954, was the first annual jazz festival in the United States.

Norman Music Festival is returning this week after two years of a pandemic-spurred hiatus. Hear the festival's executive director talk about planning what she calls the 'best annual party in the state' in about 90 days.

A founder of the Newport Folk Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — and perhaps the most important jazz impresario of all time — died Monday.

The Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee announced today that it will require either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to attend.

As summer festivals and massive concerts returned this month amid the promise of "hot vax summer," the surge in the delta variant has disrupted plans for carefree live music.

Summer music festivals and concerts are coming back after a long pause. Big festivals like Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Governors Ball have all announced their lineups. But will they be safe?

Some concert organizers are making plans to forge ahead cautiously this festival season, hoping that increased vaccination will make concerts safe and appealing.