Festival research

Reading

http://www.readingfestival.com/home/

The festival is from 27th to 30th August and is held in Reading is where it got the festival name from.

The festival has many bands and singers going on. Such as Guns and Roses, Blink 182 and Paramore. 

The target audience is 16+ for rock/indie genre. It can have younger childern who come a long with 18+ and doesnt often interst people who like hip hop and R&B.

The funding for the event is from ticket sales and sponsers:

- BBC

- NME

- Tuborg

- Gaymers Cider

- Pepsi Max

- Relentless

- Viagogo

The whole point of the festival is to get all the great bands together and people to have a great time enjoy big bands all at once.

Festival research

LOCAL


Strawberry Fair

http://www.strawberry-fair.org.uk/

The festival is normally the 1st Saturday in June, it takes place on midsummers common in Cambridge. It is a large field in the centre of Cambridge. The festival has so many things going on such as: 

- Beer Tent

- Music Stages with bands from the local areas

- All different types of food and drinks.

- Many stalls with all different types of goods [clothes, art, hand crafted and jewelry]

The target audience can range from very young people to a lot older 'hippys', families and friends enjoy the day and night event. Different types of music such as indie/rock to reggae. The stalls have all sorts of things and all different genres. 

It is funded by the local council how ever this year they pulled out and the event is not on, so this year they are asking for donations to help the festival be there next year.

http://www.strawberry-fair.org.uk/about.php

Strawberry Fair is a free volunteer run community music, entertainments, arts and crafts fair.

Across the Fair, Strawberry Essence aims to make the site an altogether nicer, happier, more colourful place through static and more imaginative décor, and wandering entertainment.

So they basically want to give the area some big vibe and an exciting event.