The future of Lockn? (The Werk Out Fest)

Mar 9, 2018 19:18:08 GMT -5 @stoutmonster said:

Phish didn’t have their own festival that early in their careers because the modern festival circuit did not exist until they basically forged it.

If you are crediting Phish as "starting it" then credit their manager, who saw the fest model in Europe and saw that it beat touring from an economic standpoint. From this came Bonnaroo and others to expand on the momentum from the earlier Phish fests. Of course, he was not alone and there were others including in-town fests before.

 There had been country music camping fests for years before that, which makes sense when you consider, market-wise, that market already camps and RV's.

And by "fest" I'm excluding the serious, smaller and more focused ones like Galax, Newport Jazz, Newport folk, etc.