Friday, November 21, 2014

From the Friendly Confines to the Green Monster

Our 2015 Coachella lineup is on its way, but first we wanted to share with you a Festival Forecaster exclusive!

Neogrunge nice guys the Foo Fighters recently released their 2015 Summer tour schedule, with Southern California dates that disappointed many hoping for them to appear at Coachella next year. We here at the Festival Forecaster were unsurprised, as we knew of the band's planned Live Nation tour. Punctuating that tour, however, are a number of appearances at large stadiums in major markets, including historic Wrigley Field in Chicago, which in recent years has hosted the Dave Matthews Band, Billy Joel, Elton John, Miranda Lambert, Paul McCartney, Brad Paisley, Pearl Jam, and Bruce Springsteen.

We can now share with you an artist we expect to join that august lineup in the Summer of 2015. Jam-band kings Phish, who performed at Fenway Park in 2009, are currently in negotiations to play two nights in Wrigleyville. Get out your hacky-sacks!

As for Fenway, where the Foo Fighters and James Taylor have already announced 2015 appearances, the latter with Bonnie Raitt, we expect more shows to come, including, perhaps, from another hometown favorite. And those who look forward to JT's annual appearance at classical music destination Tanglewood in the Berkshire hills shouldn't fear, as an announcement from those parts is forthcoming as well.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014


Welcome to the Festival Forecaster. 

What we're all about
There are many sites on the internet devoted to piecing together music festival lineups before they are officially announced. This site will try to distinguish itself by the quality of our insight, and the occasional intelligence we receive from select music business sources. To protect our methods, however, it will often be necessary to hide our gimmes among our guesses. Accept that we'll sometimes be wrong, and we hope you'll be rewarded with the best predictions going.

We will also go beyond the festival scene with the occasional early word on forthcoming concerts by major touring artists or at noteworthy venues. Our focus will be more narrow than comprehensive, however, and we will concentrate on simple presentations of the best predictions we can make, and the most novel news we can share. 

Coming soon
In a matter of days, we will release our initial lineup prediction for the first major event of the 2015 festival season, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. We intend for it it to be the best one available on the internet. Predictions for other major American music festivals will follow in the days, weeks, and months ahead. 

We're looking forward to getting started, and we hope you are too. Let's take it to the stage.