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Durham, N.C. - April 26th, 2025: Former Carolina Chocolate Drop member Rowan Corbett (left) and a shopper look at banjos inside a pop-up shop at the Biscuits and Banjos festival. (Cornell Watson for NPR) Cornell Watson for NPR hide caption
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been a tradition since 1999. But it's not actually held in the city of Coachella. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images hide caption
Word of the Week: Coachella began as a typo. Here's what happened next
Fans light up their coves at Brandi Carlile's Mothership Weekend music festival in Miramar Beach, Fla. Debbie Elliott/NPR hide caption
Inspired by the pandemic, a Florida beachside music festival tries something new
John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson, seen here at Farm Aid last year, will headline the 2024 Outlaw Music Festival tour. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Pharrell performs on Solar stage at Something In The Water festival. Darrius Cook/NPR hide caption
Festivalgoers during Coachella. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella hide caption
A team of volunteers with an Ohio-based nonprofit handed out 2,500 doses of a nasal spray version of naloxone, an overdose reversal drug, at this year's Bonnaroo music festival. Amy Harris/Invision via AP hide caption
Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan performs during its 2010 revival in Camden, New Jersey. Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images hide caption
25 years on, Lilith Fair is a reminder of how one woman's radical idea changed music
A crowd gathers on the first day of the Download Festival at Donington Park in central England on Friday. Joe Giddens/AP hide caption
Scourge of the ocean. Thn Rocn Khosit Rath Phachr Sukh / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm hide caption
Tents and a portable toilet set up for attendees for the Fyre Festival on Friday, in the Bahamas' Exuma islands. Jake Strang/AP hide caption
Fyre Festival attendees walk around the event site on Thursday night in Grand Exuma, Bahamas. Festivalgoers had paid thousands of dollars for villas and lodges on the beach, but instead found a chaotic tent city. Miles Braun hide caption
At one of England's major music festivals, The Isle of Wight Council staffs an informational tent where festival goers can learn about recognizing and reporting sexual assault. Courtesy of David Huggins / The Isle of Wight Council hide caption
How Can We Stop Sexual Assault At Music Festivals? One Group Says, Start By Educating
Drug counselor Gemma Bennet (left) explains to Rio Brown the results of forensic tests on a fragment of an Ecstasy pill he brought in for evaluation at The Loop. Lauren Frayer for NPR hide caption
Making Sure Ecstasy Is Ecstasy: Volunteers Test Drugs At U.K. Music Fests
Customers line up for an ice cream van at the 2011 Glastonbury Music Festival in southwest England. Matt Cardy/Getty Images hide caption