42 Trending Festival Organizer Businesses [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 18th, 2023

Become A Festival Organizer

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1. Yapsody

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Where they're located: San Jose, California, USA
Website traffic: 80K/month

2. Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival

Watch performances by your favorite musicians. Feast on culinary delights. Explore art in a unique environment. Hear ideas that inspire action. This is a place where anything feels possible and a place where you truly belong.

Where they're located: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Website traffic: 120K/month

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4. Everfest.com

Everfest Connects the Festival Ecosystem – Fans, Organizers, Vendors & Artists – With Tools to Make the Fun and Business of Festivals Easy. Find Thousands of Festivals Near You and Around the World.

Where they're located: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Website traffic: 640K/month

5. CHS Capitol Hill Seattle

Where they're located: Seattle, Washington, USA

6. Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

October 9-11 + 16-18 2020 | Presale starts Monday, Jan 6 at 12pm PT

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA
Website traffic: 670K/month

7. Summerfest

Summerfest presented by American Family Insurance in Milwaukee Wisconsin hosts over 800 bands and 900,000 fans over 11 days on 11 different stages.

Where they're located: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Website traffic: 230K/month

8. SFFILM

The longest-running film festival in the Americas, the SFFILM Festival is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and a major cultural event in the Bay Area.

Where they're located: San Francisco, California, USA
Website traffic: 40K/month

9. UpcomingEvents.com

UpcomingEvents.com - Your Online Event Calendar & Guide in Atlantic City to Find Out What's Going On near you in your area. Festivals, Concerts, Happy Hours, Parties, Food-Wine-Beer, Charity, New Years Eve, Halloween, and MUCH MUCH more!

Where they're located: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

10. National Cherry Blossom Festival

The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC will be held March 20th to April 10th, 2021. Welcome to the official website where you can find all festival infotmation.

Where they're located: Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., USA
Website traffic: 10K/month

11. International Chess Festival

Where they're located: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

12. Stagecoach Festival 2020

13. Memphis In May

Where they're located: Memphis, Tennessee, USA

14. LA Pride Parade & Festival in West Hollywood, CA

For over 40 years, LA Pride has been a champion for equality, diversity, and inclusion in the LA community and beyond. Join the thousands who proudly support the LA Pride each year!

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA

15. Danny Wimmer Presents

A Complete Event Producer

Where they're located: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

16. Wonderfront Festival

Where they're located: San Diego, California, USA

17. Water Lantern Festival

Water Lantern Festival is coming up soon. Get your tickets before the event sells out. Come experience the Water Lantern Festival as messages of love, hope, and happiness reflect upon the water. Don't miss this amazing event.

Where they're located: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

18. B. PHL innovation fest

B. PHL awakens the innovative spirit in all of us, encouraging attendees and participants to learn, connect and discover new ways to think and do. At B. PHL, we believe innovation is at its best when aligned to a purpose. In 2020, the world has simultaneously faced a pandemic and opened its eyes to racial injustice. Our festival will focus on response, recovery, and change.

B. PHL Fest 2020 is a virtual-hybrid celebration of inspiration, connection, and innovation. The 3-day series of workshops, meetups, and curated experiences will highlight the innovative recovery efforts to kickstart the economy. From the beginning, B. PHL Fest was designed to feature diverse speakers and perspectives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, and this year, racial justice. We invite everyone to our virtual table to be part of the discussions and actions to permanently end systemic and structural racism throughout the region and beyond.

Where they're located: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

19. BIG Salsa Festival

BIG Salsa Festival Houston is a four day latin event featuring the greatest names in performing arts and music! Each day is packed with dance classes, amazing performances, latin dance parties into the early morning hours! Come learn from the best the world and our local community has to offer.

Where they're located: San Diego, California, USA

20. International Festivals & Events Association

Where they're located: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

21. Florida Festivals and Events Association

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Where they're located: Portland, Oregon, USA

23. National Math Festival

Join us on Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18, 2021 for this free, all-ages event in downtown Washington, DC! Organized by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath).

Where they're located: Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., USA

24. Memphofest

The home page for Mempho Music Festival at Shelby Farms Park

Where they're located: Memphis, Tennessee, USA

25. McFarlane Promotions

McFarlane Promotions is a award-winning event production company dedicated to creating unforgettable events. We specialize in community festivals and outdoor events, virtual events, fundraising and public relations.

Where they're located: San Diego, California, USA

26. Day N Vegas

Day N Vegas is a three day festival featuring headliners J. Cole, Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar. The festival is taking place on Friday, November 1st through Sunday, November 3rd at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Las Vegas, NV.

Where they're located: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

27. USASEF

At the largest science festival, come celebrate STEM! Join the 6th USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. April 24-26, 2020!

Where they're located: Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., USA

28. Film Festival Research

29. The Festival Companies

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Festival is recognized nationwide as a respected innovator of urban in-fill shopping center redevelopment and ground-up development, transforming real estate into quality retail destinations that suit their unique locations and demographics.

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA

30. 420 Hippie hill SF

The OFFICIAL homepage of 420 Hippie Hill event in Golden Gate Park, SF.

Where they're located: San Francisco, California, USA

31. Festival of Cinema NYC

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA

32. Focus on the Story

Focus on the Story offers workshops, hosts an annual festival, and spotlights international documentary, street, portrait, and travel photography.

Where they're located: Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., USA

33. NYC Indie Film Fest

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA

34. Charlotte Dragon Boat Festival and Asian Festival

Where they're located: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

35. Scissortail Park – For Everyone

Where they're located: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

36. San Gennaro Feast

Las Vegas San Gennaro Feast, an Italian food & music festival held annually, is the most popular Italian festival for locals and visitors today.

Where they're located: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

37. DCPFAF

Where they're located: Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., USA

38. DisclosureFest™

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA

39. San Antonio Film Festival

Where they're located: San Antonio, Texas, USA

40. https://www.festivalorganisers.org

The Association of Festival Organisers (AFO) is a membership group of like-minded festival and event managers who believe in learning and teaching, sharing and networking to continuously improve the festival scene.

41. 6th International Day of Yoga

Where they're located: San Antonio, Texas, USA

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