Recurring · primary sources
From the Archive
One historically meaningful artefact at a time, documented at length: what it is, who made it, where it came from, and which fact it settles. Material Live Index does not hold is catalogued and linked rather than copied.
012017
Programme and identity artwork
Day for Night 2017: the programme artwork and the identity that moved
A festival that billed music and visual art in the same typographic system left an unusually legible record of how it wanted to be read. The 2017 programme cards are that record.
Aug 27, 2026 · Day for Night · Asset held and credited
022015
Official lineup card
The FPSF 2015 lineup card, and what a single sheet fixes
Announcement artwork is usually treated as marketing. Read as a document, the 2015 FPSF card settles dates, billing and scale for the final edition run by its founding group.
Aug 27, 2026 · Free Press Summer Fest · Asset held and credited
032013
Contemporaneous photographic record
The 2013 photographic record of Eleanor Tinsley Park
The largest surviving visual record of the festival's park years is photographic, and almost none of it is Live Index's to reproduce. Cataloguing it is still archival work.
Aug 27, 2026 · Free Press Summer Fest · Source-linked, not reproduced
No asset reproduced. The record is catalogued and linked to the publishers and photographers who hold it.
042009
Festival announcement and price record
Seven dollars a day: the 2009 Free Press Summer Fest announcement
A single advertised price from an inaugural edition is one of the most abused artefacts in live-music writing. Here is what the 2009 announcement actually establishes.
Aug 27, 2026 · Free Press Summer Fest · Source-linked, not reproduced
No asset reproduced. The record is catalogued and linked to the publishers and photographers who hold it.