The Music Festival Guide: For Music Lovers and Musicians [Paperback]

Jon Pruett (Author), Mike McGuirk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2004

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.

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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Review

"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

"For the fan, this book is a godsend." -- Newsday

"Lots of practical information to help plan a trip to more than 600 festivals worldwide." -- Houston Chronicle

"There's helpful travel info here. . .for all manner of music fests." -- Detroit News

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Product Details

• Paperback: 462 pages
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press (February 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155652515X
• ISBN-13: 978-1556525155
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,258,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book really made me look at my lesbian marriage, February 4, 2004

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This review is from: The Music Festival Guide: For Music Lovers and Musicians (Paperback)

This book was the most awesome book on lesbian music festivals I have ever read. The festival descriptions are emotional and erotic! I loved every entry and highly recommend this book to all women, whether you are straight, bi, or lesbian. This book shows how lesbian music festivals really are, especially the behind-the-scenes sexual intrigue. A real eye-opener for the novice or curious. BI THIS BOOK.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Resplendent!, May 11, 2004

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Donald Keyface (Honkshire, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Music Festival Guide: For Music Lovers and Musicians (Paperback)

Hark the the authors of gentlenaught! Quite a fanciful book indeed, but for where art thine Druid Folk Festival? Missing? Aye, missing indeed. Where lutes are lusty, women busty, and the bards do belt with drunk advance, you'll find me and mine singing and dancing with my boots outside my pants.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book helped me triumph over my hatred of jam bands, February 5, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Music Festival Guide: For Music Lovers and Musicians (Paperback)

This book is a rollicking romp through hundreds of music festivals across the US of A. I think the authors really like jam bands like Radberry Surprise and the Jamfactory because the best writing was about the jam festivals. I'm about to leave a 7 year lesbian relationship and set out across America to spend a year at music festivals and the two books I will bring with me are "The Music Festival Guide" and "Iacocca".