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It's music festival season. Seattle's own Bumbershoot is just days away. But music festivals across the country are on shaky financial ground, and their futures could be in trouble.
Over the past few years, dozens of small festivals have been canceled, and even the biggest ones are showing some signs of softening demand.
On today's episode, why is it so hard for this generation of music festivals to find their rhythm?
Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/boomingnotes.
Booming is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network. Our editor is Carol Smith. Our producers are Lucy Soucek and Alec Cowan. Our hosts are Joshua McNichols and Monica Nickelsburg.
Support the show: https://kuow.org/donate
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It's music festival season. Seattle's own Bumbershoot is just days away. But music festivals across the country are on shaky financial ground, and their futures could be in trouble.
Over the past few years, dozens of small festivals have been canceled, and even the biggest ones are showing some signs of softening demand.
On today's episode, why is it so hard for this generation of music festivals to find their rhythm?
Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/boomingnotes.
Booming is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network. Our editor is Carol Smith. Our producers are Lucy Soucek and Alec Cowan. Our hosts are Joshua McNichols and Monica Nickelsburg.
Support the show: https://kuow.org/donate
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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