Its guide for event organizers advises that “by identifying potential risks, collaborating with experts, securing appropriate insurance coverage, implementing safety protocols, maintaining communication channels, conducting safety inspections, and monitoring external factors, you can minimize risks and ensure a successful event.” Attendees of the Blue Ridge Rock Festival took to X (formerly Twitter) compare it to Fyre Festival.Įventsured insures events that include smaller concerts and sporting events. In April, McFarland announced that plans for Fyre Festival II, which would fulfill the “original vision” of “a destination festival in a wild and beautiful location,” yet details are scarce. Attendees paid thousands of dollars for what was billed as a luxury, immersive music festival in the Bahamas, and later featured in two full-length documentaries and additional television episodes highlighting the organizers’ greed and fraud. Co-founder Billy McFarland served four years in prison for his role in the disastrous and fraudulent 2017 Fyre Festival. Festival promoters and venues hungry to make up for profits lost during the pandemic may be short-staffed, out of practice, or willing to cut corners and resources.Īnd then there is fraud and greed. Many people crave entertainment and togetherness after several years of isolation and cancelled events, increasing demand for new events as they “make up for lost time.” Northwestern University mental health experts have written that pandemic isolation, trauma, and grief caused a degradation of social norms and graces along with an increase in violence and aggression, which can exacerbate crowd control concerns. Some logistics and safety failures can be traced to the realities of post-pandemic life. Two people were killed and several others wounded in June when a gunman shot into a campground near the Beyond Wonderland music festival in Washington state. In 2017, a gunman killed 60 people and injured over 850 attending the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival when he fired over 1,000 shots from a nearby hotel. As extreme heat and changing weather patterns become the norm, outdoor festival planners will need to reassess the timing of their events and resources necessary to accommodate them. The lack of shade on the World Scout Jamboree was identified as a concern by local civic groups but went unheeded. Burning Man is held on the site of a former desert lake, and unexpected rain caused the playa to become saturated and unpassable. Extreme heat and changing weather patterns.Ten people died of accidental suffocation and 300 were injured at the 2021 Astroworld Festival in Houston when thousands of fans rushed the stage, leaving victims trapped between barricades. Outdoor festivals held at spaces not typically used to accommodate tens of thousands of attendees may not be evaluated for crowd control and egress in the event of an emergency. Safety failures at large entertainment festivals and events can include: Poor logistics planning can lead to inconvenience and frustration on a good day tragedy on a bad one. When unexpected heavy rain caused mud to block the five-mile exit at the annual event in the remote Black Rock Desert in Nevada, organizers advised the estimated 70,000 attendees to shelter in place and conserve water, food, and fuel. The week-long art and counterculture campout and festival called Burning Man in late August and early September experienced similar logistics failures. With the sun shining on the colorful makeshift community of 70,000 people called Black Rock City, the roads opened Monday afternoon, kicking off the official exit process known as the "Exodus." (Photo by Julie JAMMOT / AFP) (Photo by JULIE JAMMOT/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Thousands of revelers stuck in the mud for days at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada were told they could finally trek home on September 4, 2023, after torrential rain had prompted shelter-in-place orders.
heavy rains turned the site in Nevada's Black Rock desert into a mud pit. Vehicles line up to leave the site of the annual Burning Man Festival on September 5, 2023, after.
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