The modern-day music festival is a complex, entertainment extravaganza of elaborate stage productions and coordinated multi-day sets with numerous performers at exotic locations across the globe.

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Coachella is on hold for six months. Concert giants Live Nation and AEG are pausing all tours. As festivals, shows, and other music events flounder due to the global coronavirus outbreak, many in the ...

Each year, music industry players spend millions of dollars in insurance premiums to buy coverage protecting their businesses from a variety of risks and liabilities. Large companies usually have ...

Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. This weekend, a pair of Raleigh benefits will arrive too late for Drew Glackin: Glackin was a gifted New York multi ...

Closed venues and a year without gigs has almost silenced the live music industry. UK Music’s annual Music by Numbers report found that in 2020 the industry’s contribution to the wider economy would ...

"The events sector supports hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country, and I know organizers are raring to go now that restrictions have been lifted," says chancellor Rishi Sunak. By Georg ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Dallas has a rich history of live music, from blues and jazz to country and rock. Mercury Insurance is adding a new beat that bridges the past with the ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — At Forte Jazz Lounge, the business is music. But the high cost of liquor liability insurance has venues like it facing the sounds of silence. However, thanks to a new ...

There’s a new obstacle facing Toronto’s already precarious live music venues: none of them seem to be able to get insurance. A coalition of the city’s venues are calling on the Ontario government to ...

Thirty-five years ago, before Stravinsky and the Viennese Atonalists had cut their modernistic teeth, a shy, bearded Yankee named Charles Ives was busy writing his own kind of modernist music. Nobody ...

Before taking out any insurance policy you should always double check that it covers every possible musical scenario you're likely to encounter. Read the small print, check the local guidelines for ...