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Podcast: Music Ally Focus
Episode: "The music festival industry is suffering and there is something fundamentally wrong at its heart" – so what can be done to revive it?
Description: Episode 153: What's the health of the music festival ecosystem like? Not great, says Nick Morgan, CEO of UK festival company The Fair. Nick, who is also vice chair of the UK’s Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), and his colleague Yasmin Galletti join Music Ally's editor Joe Sparrow and discuss the pressures festivals are under, in an environment where, they say, having seen one in six festivals go bust in the pandemic, another 1 in 6 will go bust in 2024 too. the place that music festivals hold in the UK society – and in other countries – has changed dramatically in the last 20 y...