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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 17 auguSt 2019
With glut of festivals, hard to match Woodstock magic

NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty Bethel, New York, and fea-
years after Woodstock, tured Jimi Hendrix, Grateful
the mystical and messy Dead and more, festivals
event that gave birth to a have grown tremendously
myriad of musical festivals, and, when done properly,
the entertainment industry are money makers. The
is diluted with festivals and Coachella Valley Music
events like it — some genre and Arts Festival, which
specific, some extremely takes place every April in
diverse and others offering Southern California, is the
experiences in addition to most successful festival in
music, ranging from food the United States, selling out
to art, in order to appeal to quickly, and even before its
wider audiences. lineup is announced. Other
And while there have been festivals have maintained a
historic moments at music strong presence, too, from
festivals since Woodstock — the Bonnaroo Music and
from Prince's 8-minute cov- Arts Festival in Tennessee to
er of Radiohead's "Creep" Lollapalooza in Chicago.
at Coachella in 2008 to Ra- Today, about every major
diohead's groundbreaking city has at least one festival
Bonnaroo set in 2006 to Be- — some gone after a year,
yoncé's black pride summit others persisting through.
at last year's Coachella — But it's made the festival In this Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019 file photo, a man who calls himself "Run-A-Way Bill" stands in front
of a Volkswagen bus while waiting for the gates to open at a Woodstock 50th anniversary event
could what happened at scene overcrowded, and in Bethel, N.Y.
Woodstock be replicated? now producers are work- Associated Press
"It's hard to compare any ing tirelessly to make their
modern-day festival to festivals different than the or four days," Waddell said. go, and other artists have yond performances. "What
what occurred at the origi- next one. That has become "The problem is there's not done the same, including is the festival doing differ-
nal Woodstock. It was a increasingly difficult over enough headlining acts Drake, Pharrell, Travis Scott, ently? Why does it exist? It's
cultural event that was a the years, as many acts use out there." Mumford & Sons, J. Cole, not enough to just fence a
watershed happening that festivals almost as a touring He continued: "One thing Bon Iver, Grace Potter & field and say we're going to
captured the imagination stop, headlining multiple that Coachella has going the Nocturnals, the Nation- have 30,000 people here
of an entire generation," festivals within a matter of for it is it's first in April. When al and others. because we have major
said Ray Waddell, presi- weeks. they had Outkast that year, "There are a lot of reasons acts," he said. "Launching
dent of media and confer- "What makes the festival LCD Soundsystem that festivals don't work right a good, sustainable festival
ences at Oak View Group, stand out is one, the expe- year, Guns N' Roses — they now, oversaturation be- is doing something unique.
which owns concert trade rience, and two, exclusivity were the first and three or ing one of them," said Jor- It doesn't just stand on tal-
publication Pollstar. "It was and uniqueness of the line- four or more booked those dan Kurland, co-founder ent at this point. It's festival
an amazing summer, an in- up. They can ebb and flow same acts but you didn't of Noise Pop Festival in the experience. It's festival lo-
credible year. It all kind of with the lineup. You look at know that." San Francisco Bay Area cation."
came together at Wood- Bonnaroo, which fell off for Boutique festivals that ca- and co-founder of Brilliant Alec Jhangiani, the co-
stock in 1969. To try to rep- a couple of years and then ter to smaller audiences Corners, the artist manage- founder and producer
licate that, they've never came back this year with as well as artist-curated ment company home to of Fortress Festival in Fort
fully been able to." the perfect mix of a lineup festivals have been a suc- Death Cab for Cutie and Worth, Texas, said he be-
Since the original Wood- that captured the atten- cess in recent years. Jay-Z She & Him. lieves festivals have lost their
stock, which took place tion of the people who are launched Made in America Kurland said some festival "sheen a little bit as it be-
August 15-18 in 1969 in willing to camp out three in Philadelphia seven years organizers need to think be- comes more prevalent."q

FCC fines networks for wrongly

using emergency alert system

NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy $395,000 fine to ABC was the FCC announced Thurs-
Kimmel has learned an ex- by far the stiffest. day.
pensive lesson: don't mess FCC rules prohibit the use AMC network agreed to
with the government's of the signal for any pur- pay a $104,000 fine for im-
emergency alert system. pose other than an actual proper use of the signal
Kimmel's network, ABC, emergency. The idea is in an episode of its most
was one of four media or- to prevent confusion, the popular show, "The Walk-
ganizations fined by the agency said Friday. ing Dead," in February, the In this Tuesday, May 14, 2019, file photo, Jimmy Kimmel attends
Federal Communications Kimmel used the signal FCC said. the Walt Disney Television 2019 upfront at Tavern on The Green
Commission this week three times as part of a skit Discovery's Animal Planet in New York.
for improper use of the on his show on Oct. 3, 2018. was fined $68,000 when Associated Press
emergency signal that is ABC has signed a consent an actual emergency sig-
sent over television, ra- decree agreeing to pay nal sent to a mobile phone The show was filming Texas Los Angeles radio stations
dio and mobile phones to the fine and promising was picked up by cameras game wardens making KDAY and KDEY were fined
warn people of danger not to improperly use the during a filming session for rescues in the wake of Hur- $67,000 for using the signal
like floods and fires. The emergency tones again, its show, "Lone Star Law." ricane Harvey. in show promotions.q