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 […]
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 […]
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 Sponsorship: A Unique Type of Event Sponsorship
Unlike other types of event sponsorship, festival sponsorship has many unique challenges and opportunities in gaining sponsors and providing them with great sponsorship assets. Unlike venues or concert tours or series, festivals have a very limited lifespan and most take place only once a year and are subject to bad weather, road closures and other […]
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 […]
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 […]
5 Tips for Effective Festival Marketing on Social Media
Festival Marketing is a critical piece of putting on a festival of any kind. While Covid restrictions have eased, the entertainment industry is still suffering as live concert and festival attendance have recently fallen (Source). Festival marketing now has one main goal: remind fans what they have been missing out on now that live events […]
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 […]
Festival Production: Leveraging the Fan Experience
Why are concert and festival production teams increasingly paying attention to the total fan experience? The answer is that a better fan experience means that the promoter or event organizer will see more: Brand Awareness Fan Loyalty Revenue Opportunities Any entertainment agency that provides concert or festival production services knows that one of the critical […]
Festival and Event Sponsors: When To Reach Out
Festival and Event Sponsors are an essential part of the success of any event. Developing those sponsorships is key to producing and growing successful festival or events. They can help you generate needed revenue and help take your event to the next level by providing the funds to make your event more amazing. Sponsorships can […]
Keys to Festival and Event Sponsorship Development
Festival and Event sponsorship development should be a key focus in creating a successful festival, fair or other type of entertainment event. Successful sponsorship sales can help with budget needs; local, regional or national exposure; building credibility with attendees and your community; while fostering new business relationships. Many of those will turn into long term […]
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 Production: A Lot More Than Booking Entertainment
It’s no secret that putting on a festival is a lot of work. There are so many things to plan and prepare, and so many people to contact and coordinate with to make your music festival a success. Booking the right festival entertainment for your audience and your budget is critical, but so are the […]
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 […]
Festival Sponsorship Sales: A Path Taken
Festival sponsorship sales runs the whole gamut from large multi-day national festivals to small one-day community festivals. The former finds it relatively easy to find national brand sponsors while the latter will have difficulty attracting national brands for sponsorships. They depend on local sponsors for most if not all their festival sponsorship sales. That brings […]
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 […]
Fair Production During a Pandemic: It’s UnFair in Weber County, Utah
It may seem unfair. That because it really is in Weber County, Utah. Weber County, replaced its county fair with a county “UnFair.” The Weber County Fair is held each year at the Golden Spike Event Center in Ogden, Utah. Situated in the heart of Weber County, the Weber County Fairgrounds is comprised of 141+ […]
Different Ideas for Festival Entertainment
Live music is often the most recognizable type of festival entertainment. When people think of a music festival, big names come to mind like Coachella or Stagecoach. Hundreds of musicians playing to a huge crowd outdoors on multiple stages. However, not all festivals are created equal. Most festivals are local celebrations. The live entertainment that […]
Festival Production Pandemic Plan
TSE Entertainment seeks to help its clients with many facets of festival and concert production. As part of that effort, TSE has vetted sponsorship sales resources to help those involved in festival production find sponsor for their events. We also have been vetting sanitizing agents and equipment for our clients’ events. We see ourselves as […]
25 Years of Festival Entertainment Booking for Independence Day
TSE Entertainment is privileged to be working with the Baytown, Texas’ Parks and Recreation Department once again with booking their entertainment for this free festival. This two-day Independence Day Celebration festival is Baytown’s way of saying “Happy Birthday America.” This year’s event will take place Friday, July 3, and Saturday, July 4, at Bicentennial Park […]
Beyond Festival Entertainment Booking: A Customized Experience
It’s no secret that hosting a large music festival is a lot of work. There are so many things to plan and prepare, and so many people to contact and coordinate with to make your music festival a success. You can find a few tips on hosting a music festival here. Getting the music festival […]
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 […]
Music Booking for a Great Two-Day Texas Festival
TSE is proud to be the music booking agency for Baytown, Texas. In that role TSE books several festivals and concert series for this dynamic city of approximately 80,000 people. Baytown is part of the Houston Texas metropolitan area and its free concerts and festivals attract people throughout that area. One of these festivals is […]
Festival Entertainment Booking: Save Time and Money
When organizing a music festival, there are a lot of things to consider such as: planning, budgeting, finding the right venue, and booking your festival entertainment. It is a monumental task that includes a lot of working parts! We cover a lot of the planning portion in more detail in; Producing a Festival Concert: Preparation […]
Fair or Festival Entertainment Booking: Do You Know the Difference?
I must admit, when I first began fair and festival entertainment booking, I didn’t understand their history and purpose of fairs versus festivals. For a lot of people, the subtle and not so subtle meaning of a fair, festival, exposition or exhibition can be confusing. Understanding their differences and similarities helped me book the right […]
Fair or Festival Entertainment: Many Pieces to The Puzzle
Unlike other types of venues, fair or festival entertainment settings are much more complex. Staging a concert for fairs or festivals means creating an entertainment venue almost from scratch for these annual events. Many take place outside. If you are lucky, the concert is staged in a rodeo arena. Others take place on city streets, […]
Fair or Festival Entertainment Booking: Conference Musings
If you are a Fair or Festival Entertainment booking agency, you are finishing up a busy conference schedule. October through January is a time window of major conferences for those of us booking entertainment for Fairs and Festivals. Fair or Festival Entertainment Booking Agency Must Events Consider the meetings taking place during this time period. […]
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 […]
Texas Fairs Entertainment Booking: TAFE 2018 Conference Impressions
Telling Your Tale – Texas Association of Fairs and Events 2018 Convention in the great city of San Antonio was one to remember. As one of the top Texas fairs entertainment booking agencies, it is imperative for companies such as ourselves to attend such events. It is a time to not only celebrate the year […]
GRITO Festival 2017
One of the many Festivals that TSE (Texas Sounds Entertainment) books the entertainment for each year is the City of Baytown’s Grito Fest. The festival is held each year by the Parks and Recreation Department to celebrate the city’s Hispanic culture.
