Some Music Festivals Balk at Booking 50% Female Acts. One Just Did It.
An Icelandic music festival has become the first to meet a target ensuring half its acts are women — increasing pressure on the world’s biggest festivals to step up the number of women they book. Iceland Airwaves, the country’s answer to South By Southwest, is one of 109 festivals that signed up in September to a global initiative called Keychange that aims to address gender inequality at such events.