Where festivals on a grander scale aim for the stars in their bookings, Sasquatch! After poor ticket sales from , the festival had to take a different approach that appealed to a younger, more diverse audience. While this sounded good on paper, the lineup alienated older, longtime Sasquatch! Early numbers say that around 12, attended this year, according to ifiberone, a Columbia Basin news outlet. All the same, the state of music festivals is ever growing in the direction of mega-corporations and conglomerates.
Luckily for Sasquatch! Live Nation and AEG, the other dominant event company, handle almost all of this side of the experience of a festival. Pemberton Festival up in B. As Zacks has pointed out in various interviews, costs for booking artists are increasing, and this is only getting worse with corporations that control multiple festivals and book similar artists.
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After lineup experimentation the last few years triggered backlash among fans, the popular Northwest music festival looks to its past in hopes of preserving its future. Music Festival lineup, the tapping of poppy rap-rockers Twenty One Pilots as a headliner drawing much of the ire. Since the multiple-day bash held at the Gorge Amphitheatre issued its first wristbands, once-novel music festivals have proliferated. Roughly 32 million people attend at least one U.
After some lineup experimentation the last few years that included more mainstream acts and EDM heavy hitters, Sasquatch! Headliners include a few Sasquatch! As proof, he points to when goth-rock greats the Cure played to an infamously small audience.
The year-old and her friends used to get together the day of Sasquatch! With more festivals competing for the same acts, and fans decrying lineups looking increasingly similar, the box-office battle has gotten rockier.
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