eFestivals is a website listing
music festival
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or h ...
s; hosting information on line-ups, interviews, photographs and live reviews.
The website boasts an active discussion board with over 225,000 registered users, which now runs on a separate server from the main website due to its popularity. A 'gold membership' is available for £18 per annum, which prevents third party websites from being displayed while using the site.
In May 2019, eFestivals launched an appeal for donations to help cover the website's running costs and to secure the future of the website.
History
The website was launched in 1998 as "The Original Glastonbury Website", and was adopted by
Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemp ...
as the official website for the 1999 event.
In 2000, eFestivals was launched to cater for multiple festivals (over 200 were listed in 2006
), and has been cited as bringing attention to smaller-scale festivals.
In 2007, sister website eGigs.co.uk was first registered, which mirrors the format of eFestivals but relates to individual gigs rather than festivals.
References
External links
eFestivals website
British music websites
Music festival organizations
Glastonbury Festival
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