The International Folk Alliance Conference was just a couple weeks ago. The music portion of SXSW is right around the corner. And pretty soon music festival season will be in full swing: Coachella, Bonnaroo, Sasquatch, your uncle’s backyard battle-of-the-bands where he celebrates Summer Solstice in style.
Are you ready?
If you’re looking for advice on how to get booked at a music festival, which festivals to play, what to do once your appearance at a festival or conference has been confirmed, and more — check out the following articles.
7 articles to help your band prepare for music festival season
- How to make the most of a festival appearance, Pt. 1
- How to make the most of a festival appearance, Pt. 2
- Music conference tips for independent musicians
- Ten music conferences/festivals you should be following on Twitter
- The most important rule of live performance (any of you currently headed to SXSW, you might want to read this as a refresher)
- The DIY Musician’s complete guide to touring (and this post might be good review material for anyone booking a tour in conjunction with a festival appearance)
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Are you planning to play at a music festival this year? If so, which one? How’d the booking process go? Are you planning anything special for your appearance? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Are you planning to play at a music festival this year? If so, which one? How’d the booking process go? Are you planning anything special for your appearance? Let us know in the comments section below.
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.