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Your Guide to Music Festivals

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Music festivals across the US, such as the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and the Sasquatch!, sold out in a matter of days. This is in spite of the fact that the concert industry overall had a bad year in 2010. Unlike music tours and concerts, music festivals are thriving.

The difference is probably due to the fact that festivals create a more eclectic experience and offer a variety of bands. Festivals like Stagecoach, Rock on the Range, and Lollapalooza set attendance records last year, while high-profile tours like the Jonas Brothers and American Idols Live struggled with slow sales, cancellations and postponements. The founder of the Bamboozle festival compared themselves to Walmart and Costco of the music world, in that they provide such a wide variety of entertainment at a value price.

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Show promoters, Jeanie Haig and Glen Jarrell presented their 5th country musical festival at Jarrell's property at Harmony Road, North of Belleville, last weekend and donated $2000 to Camp Trillium, a centre treating children, with life threatening ailments.
This four day music festival was a draw for all the country music fans, who gathered in hundreds at the annual Hollyrood Jamboree. According to Jarrell, the music festival drew the maximum crowd on Saturday, the night Canadian singer, Aaron Lines performed.
This musical festival which started as a one night show, with just 8 campers, with one band and one DJ, has now grown into the much sought after, local country music festival of the summer, with an attendance of 600 campers this time.
Others who participated in the musical festival, apart from Aaron Lines, were Mike Pollard and The Unpopular, The Black Family and some renowned local artists. The musical festival came to a draw with a vintage car show on Sunday.

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Some of the upcoming music festivals in the United States include the Common Ground Festival 2011 in Lansing, Michigan. This music festival is scheduled from the 11th to the 17th of July. The music festival tickets are priced at $69 for a seven day advance pass. The line-up includes Trey Songz, Trav and ISquare, among others.
Dave Matthews Band: Caravan is scheduled from the 8th to the 10th of July. This music festival features Dave Matthews Band, David Gray, Ray Montagne and Kid Cudi. The music festival tickets are priced at $195 for a three day pass. Provisions for camping have also been made.
The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is going to be held between the 11th to the 16th of July in Brooklyn, New York. Q-Tip is going to be the headliner at the music festival.