When is fyf fest 2011

When everyone cool, hip and different is packed into one venue — what does that make everyone? The same. Now in its ninth year, the festival is expanding to two consecutive days for the first time […].

A bevy of upcoming concerts provides opportunities to explore the L. The fair has a gargantuan, jam-packed list of fun for all ages, including myriad fair […]. First up is Explosions in the Sky. Featuring […]. For USC students, Labor Day weekend offers a welcome break to the busyness and early chaos that starts off each academic year. In particular, the three-day weekend is a great opportunity to explore […]. The post-summer concert lineup includes a wide array of star-studded talent, everything from indie to classic rock.

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For further precaution we will be laying down a thick layer of wood chips in the space near the stages and in the beer gardens.

SHADE: There will be more shade tents and misters all over the park giving everyone more places to relax and get out of the sun. This will result in overall cleaner restrooms and shorter lines. Avi Buffalo.

Broken Social Scene. Cass McCombs. Cold War Kids. Dan Deacon. Death from Above Follow Billboard. All rights reserved. Disappointing ticket sales in April are to blame for the cancelation. Even though the event had two-and-a-half months to go, organizers decided this year's FYF Fest could not be saved and threw in the towel. Today AEG officials will begin the process of reaching out to fans who bought tickets for the July festival with refund information.

The cancelation comes as the summer festival season begins and new concerns emerge about soft ticket sales and over-saturation , with new multi-day events competing for market share with longtime festival brands.

While indie festivals are typically the ones that get squeezed in the ultra-competitive space, the crash of a well-known music festival in a major city operated by one of the biggest festival producers in the world is raising alarm bells about the health of the festival market in Experimental Spanish electronic act the Suicide of Western Culture will be performing one of its first U.

Carlson acknowledges he needed help in running the two-day festival. In the fan experience was marred by a drastic shortage of water, hour-plus lines for bathroom facilities, severe logjams at the gates and a general lack of shade and food. I had a very narrow-minded punk rock philosophy. I believed no one would sue you if they got hurt. I was wrong. Carlson stresses numerous times that he is not a professional concert promoter, this despite being able to afford a pair of full-time employees at his Eagle Rock offices and staging about 50 concerts per year under the FYF banner.