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The Music Festival Guide: For Music Lovers and Musicians

The Music Festival Guide: For Music Lovers and Musicians
By Jon Pruett, Mike McGuirk

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Covering 600 music festivals worldwide, this guide offers lively descriptions of festivals of all manner, size, and form. A resource for the committed festival attendee, it offers dates, locations, scheduled events, web sites, and lists of recent performers. Accommodation information is also featured alongside price guidelines and camping details. Also a vital handbook for the performer, it provides contact information for booking agents, deadlines for submissions, and, in some cases, practical tips about how to get on the bill. Covering nearly every conceivable genre of music—from alternative rock, world music, avant-garde jazz, and R&B to bluegrass, reggae, medieval, and contemporary classical—this companion is comprehensive, engagingly written, and amazingly informative. The Music Festival Guide is an essential resource for anyone interested in attending or performing at music festivals.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1465917 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-02-01
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: 1.05" h x 6.04" w x 9.01" l, 1.24 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 462 pages

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Freelance music writers Pruett and McGuirk have done a service to musicians and music aficionados alike in this wide-ranging guide to music festivals around the world. They give generous space to a variety of genres, from rock, indie and hip-hop to jazz, country and classical; considerations of the former groups are strongest, however, and make up the bulk of the book. (While such big classical events as the Brattleboro Music Festival in Vermont are omitted, the book does list the Boston Early Music Festival.) In this helpful guidebook, the authors highlight almost all the big festivals as well as the lesser-known ones, offering a brief intro to each and including specs on hotel and travel. For the Newport Beach Jazz Festival, for example, the authors note that the festival has "recently located to a new venue that’s more suited to loud music and able to accommodate thousands of visitors." And for the Canterbury Fayre in England, they point out that the festival "has been associated with musical innovation and experimentation."
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"Lots of practical information to help plan a trip to more than 600 festivals worldwide." -- Houston Chronicle. "A great resource for the music buff who loves to travel." -- Chicago Tribune. "A valuable resource in planning trips to music fests in faraway places." -- Hartford Courant. "There's helpful travel info here...for all manner of music fests." -- Detroit News. "For the fan, this book is a godsend." -- Newsday.

Chicago Tribune
“A great resource for the music buff who loves to travel.”