Environmental Impact of Music Festivals
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the environmental impact associated with large-scale events, including music festivals. While these festivals provide an opportunity for music lovers to come together and celebrate their favorite artists, they also leave a significant footprint on the planet. Amidst this concern, there’s a glimmer of hope as […]
Music Festival Venues: More Options on Land and Sea
Music festival venues are extending beyond land and sand and into the water itself, thus expanding opportunities in recent years. Not only are music festival venues setting sail on cruise lines, but another hot spot for concert pop ups are hidden deep in the mountains, in innovative and remote places. What is a Music Festival […]
6 Serious Risks of Live Entertainment Events
The people or agencies that book, organize, or manage live entertainment events must also deal with the critical risks associated with putting on live entertainment events. They include long-standing threats, e.g., last minute artist cancellations or weather phenomena, as well as newer and emerging threats such as changes to audience behaviors and artist social media […]
7 Nightclub Safety Issues: Keeping Patrons Safe
Understanding nightclub safety issues is part of the job of managing or owning this type of venue. Prioritizing safety should always be the primary focus of clubs or nightclubs. The entertainment and atmosphere they provide allow their patrons to enjoy their friends, dance the night away, and relieve their stress. Behinds the scene, club managers […]
Understanding Music Festival Target Audiences
After three years of Covid-impacted music festival seasons, 2023 is seeing a long-awaited return-to-normal. According to estimates from Statista Market Insights, the entire music event industry, including festivals and concerts but also musicals and operas, is expected to return to its pre-pandemic growth trajectory this year. Statista expects online ticket sales for music-related events to […]
5 Music Festival Disasters and What We Can Learn From Them
Music festivals are memorable and celebratory events, where artists and fans unite under the love and appreciation of music. While the intent is to create memories for loyal music enthusiasts, with poor planning, disorganization, and disregard for safety, mixed with unpredictable weather and other disastrous circumstances, music festivals can quickly become disasters with harm and […]
Music Festival Economics
The Covid pandemic had a major impact on music festival economics with the cancellations of music festivals having a huge impact. For the most part, large music festivals are back and as popular as ever. While music festivals have been taking place since ancient times, it was Woodstock in 1969 that set the tone for […]
Outdoor vs. Indoor: Choosing the Right Venue For Your Live Event
When planning a live event, choosing the right venue is pivotal to its success. As an event organizer, you have various options to choose from when selecting a venue. Hosting your event at an appropriate venue can elevate and enhance your event. However, to optimize your event and produce the best results, knowing what exactly […]
Declining Concert Etiquette is Dangerous
Concerts are a place where people go to celebrate music and share in the live music experience together. Within recent years, concert etiquette (or rather the lack of etiquette) has made headlines for being dangerous for both audience members and the performers. In 2021, the Astroworld Festival made headlines when Travis Scotts’ set resulted in […]
Accessibility Planning for Live Events
Live events, such as concerts and festivals, have the power to bring people together and create amazing memories. However, many events often overlook the importance of accessibility planning for their live events. Without it, they may unintentionally be excluding individuals with disabilities and diverse needs. By ensuring that your live events are inclusive and accessible […]
Protecting Performers Is An Obligation of Venues and Promoters
We’ve all heard about the recent incidents of concert behavior such as objects and water being thrown, fans jumping on stage, grabbing microphones, etc. as major artists are performing. These incidents make the news because the artists are famous and newsworthy. Many such incidents occur routinely at less renown concerts and venues. What the publicity […]
Producing Music Festivals: How to Choose the Right Venue
If you are involved in producing music festivals, you know that choosing the right venue is crucial for the success of a music festival. The venue sets the stage for an unforgettable experience for attendees, artists, and organizers alike. With so many factors to consider, it can be overwhelming to make the right choice. In […]
How To Problem Solve When Producing Live Events
Planning and producing live events can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience, but it doesn’t come without some challenges. As an event organizer, you are certain to face some obstacles along the way. From technical issues to difficulties with those involved in the event, when producing live events one needs to be prepared to think […]
7 Important Festival Sponsorship Assets
Whether your festival is a local event that targets a small, close-knit audience or a regional, national, or even international festival that brings in hundreds of thousands of people, developing festival sponsorship assets should be part of your plan. Fortunately, festivals provide a multitude of potential sponsorship assets. Both potential sponsors and festival/event organizers are […]
Festival Event Planning: 11 Steps to Success Part 2
In Part One of our discussion of the 11 steps to successful festival event planning, we addressed the 5 initial steps of planning larger events. These five steps are the keys to developing a strategic plan for the event. Those initial 5 steps include: Determine Your Festival Goals, Objectives, and Theme Understand Your Target Audience […]
11 Steps to Successful Festival Event Planning: Part One
The functions and tasks involved may seem overwhelming when starting the festival event planning process. As a festival planner, not only must you deal with all the various logistical issues involved with festival production, but you must also anticipate and plan for many contingencies and adverse incidents. Part One of this two-part article discusses the […]
Event Planning: Key Festival Audience Engagement Ideas
Audience engagement is an important component of the event planning process for festivals and events. Annual festivals face challenges that continuing events don’t. They must find a means for audience engagement for more than the one to three days of most festival durations. The specific strategy and tactics you use for event engagement must align […]
Festival and Concert Production: Crowd Safety
After the tragedy in South Korea this past weekend, it’s time again to examine crowd management issues when planning festivals or concert production or other types of events that puts people in potentially crowded situations. Event organizers, whether for fairs, festivals, or concerts, need to manage the health and safety risks for those attending and […]
Festival Production: Why Use an Event App?
If you are a festival planner or are heavily involved in the festival production planning process, you understand that you need a mobile Internet presence and strategy. To some that’s a responsive event website and a Facebook event page. They are certainly important components of any festival’s online strategy but consider this. We are living […]
4 Proven First Steps in Festival Production
There are many elements to festival production just as there are many festival production companies. The best festival production companies share a number of traits. The good ones spend a lot of time planning for the festival; devote quality people in the effort; provide all the services needed for a successful festival; and find ways […]
Creative Concert Venue Options for Events
Expand your concert venue options when planning a live event. After all, you want your guests to have a memorable experience. Being creative in choosing an event venue can lead to a memorable experience for those attending it. This can be a key factor to having a successful event. Concert Venue Options Take Many Forms […]
Planning a Festival: Use a Good Timeline
Planning a festival and handling all the issues involved in producing a festival is no easy task. With vendors, entertainers, sponsors, and community members, there are a lot of issues to keep track of to ensure a smooth day or weekend of entertainment. In this blog, we will walk you through the process of music […]
Festival Production: Takeaways from Successful Music Festivals
Festival Production is not an easy calling. Planning for your very own music festival is exciting, yet it can be overwhelming! From securing a venue, booking entertainment, getting vendors, insurance, volunteers, marketing, etc., a lot of time and effort goes into pulling off a flawless festival. In this post, we describe some of the reasons […]
Texas Task Force on Concert Safety
Last November, the Astroworld Festival took place with about 50,000 mostly young adults present for this event held in a parking lot. The outdoor nature of the Astroworld Festival event with its temporary structures contributed to increased safety risks. Ten people died and approximately 300 people were injured at the event due to a crowd […]
Outdoor Event Production: 5 Critical Safety Concerns
As the pandemic recedes and the weather warms, outdoor concerts, festival, and fairs are back. For those involved in outdoor event production and promotion, it can’t come soon enough. Our focus can return to safety issues beyond Covid protection. Outdoor events have certain safety issues that indoor venues don’t have. The reason for this is […]
Outdoor Music Concert or Festival Insurance: Part Two
Getting the right insurance for your outdoor music concert or festival is an important part of the planning for any live entertainment event. In Part One we discussed weather insurance. Concert and festival organizers buy weather insurance to protect themselves against bad weather incidents that reduce attendance and revenue. If you missed reading Part One, […]
Outdoor Music Festival or Concert Insurance: Part One
Planning an outdoor music festival or concert? An important item on your checklist, right after security and safety, should be insurance needs. Outdoor music festivals present additional concerns over indoor music concert venues. For one, they are directly exposed to weather events. They also may mean the set up of temporary structures such as stages, […]
Festival Production Services Include “Growing It”
Just what festival production services are needed depends on each particular festival. The diversity of festivals and the background of those producing them vary greatly. Many festivals are long-standing events that have a great volunteer and/or paid organizing staff. Others are new with very little history or knowledgeable staff to carry out such an undertaking. […]
Festival Development, Production, Promotion and Sponsorship
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]TSE Entertainment likes to work with organizations who are new to putting on live entertainment events. Whether it’s full festival development and production, booking entertainment, promotion or even sponsorship, it allows TSE to bring its full expertise and experience to bear to help them. That’s because they realize they are a novice, and they take […]
Event and Festival Production; 5 Tips for Hiring the Right Company
Managing festival production services can be overwhelming for many who are involved in the production of festivals. Writer and filmmaker, Siddharth Katragadda, once said that “the greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals”, and while it’s a simple and appealing quote, it’s also very true. Whether it is strictly a music festival, […]
Producing a Festival in Today’s World
These are incredibly challenging times for anyone producing a festival or any type of live music event. Not only do you need to deal with the many tasks normally involved with producing a music festival, but now you need to do it safely in a pandemic environment. All music events draw fans who want to […]
Producing a Festival: Preparation and People Are Key
TSE Entertainment was tasked with producing a festival and concert for the Parks and Recreation Department of Kerrville, Texas. The event was the First Annual Kerrville River Festival. In addition, this year’s concert was also a celebration of the city’s 130th Anniversary. This was to be the biggest event yet produced by the Kerrville Parks […]
Producing a Music Festival: The Basics
Producing a music festival can be a stressful process. There are many steps that must be taken before a successful music fair or festival can occur. Oftentimes, having a professional hand around to help can alleviate a lot of the stress and make the planning just as fun as the festival itself! No matter the […]
