45 music festivals pledge towards gender-balanced line-ups by 2022
The push comes from the UK’s PRS Foundation and its International Keychange initiative, which was founded to help women transform the music industry. Among the festivals and showcase events committing to the pledge are England’s The Great Escape, Bluedot, Liverpool Sound City; Canada’s North By North East and Canadian Music Week; New York’s Winter Jazzfest and A2IM Indie Week; Iceland’s Airwaves, and events and conferences in Norway, Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland, and more.