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As 2015 comes to a close, IFEA would like to wish its members, partners, and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the IFEA Event Insider a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Jan. 7.
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Special Events
From Nov. 19: Ensuring security at special events is always an essential. But the recent spate of terror attacks, including those in Paris, brings this painful issue back into the spotlight. In a Special Events exclusive, Frank Sebastian, emergency management chair of giant Seattle festival Seafair, shares these comments on safeguarding a large public event.
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Hypebot.com
From June 4: According to music industry veteran Harvey Goldsmith, music festivals have reached their apogee and the current world of major festival events will soon be a thing of the past. "The festival circuit has peaked. It really peaked about two years ago. There's too many of them and there are not enough big acts to headline them. That is a big, big problem in our industry.
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San Gabriel Valley Tribune
From Aug. 13: When L.A. County sheriff's Deputy Dan Whitten asked for more manpower, Live Nation didn't hesitate to give it. Whitten, who managed police logistics for the 2014 Hard Summer Festival, put 373 sets of boots on the ground each day, with his officers covering more than 4,700 workable hours.
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Naked Security
From Feb. 26: Tickets for the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are hot commodities, with over 80,000 people registering for the recent release of 40,000 tickets. What started as the burning of a wooden figure on a beach on the summer solstice in 1986 has now grown to a yearly event that attracts tens of thousands of people.
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Eventbrite
From April 16: The music festival business continues to boom in America, and there's no sign of it slowing down anytime soon. One in ten Americans attended a music festival in the past twelve months, and social media conversations around music festivals spiked 34 percent this year compared to last.
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The Washington Post
From Nov. 5: If the cerulean that matched the sky on a perfect day in Kansas City didn't awe you, how about this? A crowd estimated at 800,000 (in a metro area of roughly 2 million) turned out to celebrate the Royals' World Series victory. The images were stunning, even by the standards set by Chicago and its Blackhawks parade(s) and New York's Canyon of Heroes moments. This was the first time in 30 years that Kansas Citians have had the chance to celebrate like this and they made the most of it.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
From June 25: Northern Nevada has long been known as home to the freewheeling counterculture Burning Man festival in the starkly beautiful Black Rock Desert. In the past five years, Las Vegas, too, has evolved into a festival goers' mecca. Hundreds of thousands of devotees now also flock to the psychedelic Electric Daisy Carnival rave, the iHeartRadio music festival, the Route 91 Harvest country festival and Rock in Rio, an import from Brazil.
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The Daily Mail
From June 18: The faces of 90,000 revelers at Download Festival this weekend are being scanned by special police cameras — in a new scheme that could be rolled out to music events across the country. Leicestershire Police have set up facial recognition cameras in "strategic" locations in Donington Park, to scan the faces of thousands of people attending the rock festival recently.
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Culture Map Austin
From Feb. 26: It's been a tough year for SXSW. In the months that followed the Red River tragedy, SXSW struggled to steady itself as it faced a barrage of criticism from both inside the city and out. It began last May after the Austin American-Statesman ran an op-ed chastising the festival for not ponying up the cash to pay for city services.
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The New York Times
From Oct. 15: It has become as much a part of the presidential campaign season as the baby kiss or the candidate selfie: the inevitable moment when a musician denounces a politician for using his or her song without permission. It happened in January, when the punk band Dropkick Murphys asked Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin to stop using its music.
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