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This holds up especially true for electronic dance music festivals. EDM is notorious for being one of music’s largest boy’s club, with women making up just 11 percent of artists at electronic music festivals in 2015. And in 2014, just 18 percent of EDM labels included women on their rosters.
Festival organizers often point to scheduling issues and musical genres to explain why there are so few women performing at American music festivals. But in talking with women in the industry, HuffPost found that the truth is much more complicated. From the subtle distaste for the musical genres that women dominate most to more overt instances ...
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, often referred to as MWMF or Michfest, [1] was a lesbian feminist women's music festival held annually from 1976 to 2015 in Oceana County, Michigan, on privately owned woodland near Hart Township referred to as "The Land" by Michfest organizers and attendees.
Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, popularly known as "The Dinah", is a five-day weekend getaway and music festival catering to the queer women/non-binary/lesbian community that takes place annually in Palm Springs, California, United States. [1] [2]
The newest festival is the Los Angeles Women's Music Festival, which kicked off in 2007 with over 2,500 attendees, and which was originally scheduled to return in 2009, but has been on indefinite hiatus after the first event. [citation needed] Though the festivals are centered on music, they support many other facets of lesbian and feminist ...
Why It’s Special: The Newport Folk Festival, founded in 1959, was one of the first modern music festivals in America. With a folk music focus, the festival has a rich history of providing a ...
The annual Mid-America Music Festival is a country music and camping festival held on the Black Silo Winery's 70 acres, about 90 miles north of Kansas City. This year's entertainment includes ...
Amusement Business, sister publication of Billboard, counted both U.S. and overseas data while Pollstar only reported North American statistics during several years, [52] until 2008. [53] List does not include concert residencies, which is the case of Celine Dion, whom topped the tours of 2005 and 2007 by female artists with her residency. [54 ...