Live Index product · Methodology 1.0
A register of American music festivals, a documented method for turning an official lineup and an actual checkout total into two separate measures — what the programming is worth, and what it costs — and an honest account of which records currently carry enough evidence to be rated.
9 published festivals records
Festival guide
Every festival Live Index holds a record of, one row per edition. Search by name or place, and narrow by country, state, genre and year. Where a festival or its ticket seller states an admission price, or states that entry is free, the guide shows it — before taxes and mandatory fees, and never a checkout total. Filtering happens in the page and never changes the address, so the guide has exactly one URL.
Showing 60 of 662 festivals. 533 with a price. Prices are as stated by the source, before taxes and mandatory fees, and are not scoring inputs.
Stated genre · most common multi-genre
Season, from printed dates
Stated admission, U.S. dollars
Chattanooga, TN · United States
Miami, FL · United States
Rotterdam · Netherlands · outside U.S. scoring scope
Miami, FL · United States
London · United Kingdom · outside U.S. scoring scope
Lardner · Australia · outside U.S. scoring scope
George, WA · United States
Lake George, NY · United States
Summerfield, MD · United States
Salvador · Brazil · outside U.S. scoring scope
Sacramento, CA · United States
Brooklyn, NY · United States
Airlie Beach · Australia · outside U.S. scoring scope
Greer, SC · United States
Minehead · United Kingdom · outside U.S. scoring scope
London · United Kingdom · outside U.S. scoring scope
Belfast, ME · United States
Queens, NY · United States
Columbia, MD · United States
Jaboticatubas · Brazil · outside U.S. scoring scope
Nashville, TN · United States
St. Paul's Bay · Malta · outside U.S. scoring scope
Annapolis, MD · United States
Annapolis, MD · United States
Woodward, PA · United States
Chicago, IL · United States
Easthampton, MA · United States
Winthrop, ME · United States
Royal Oak, MI · United States
Austin, TX · United States
The Far Out Lounge · United States
Auditorium Shores · United States
Istanbul · Türkiye · outside U.S. scoring scope
Wilmington, NC · United States
El Sargento · Mexico · outside U.S. scoring scope
Sao Paulo · Brazil · outside U.S. scoring scope
Snowshoe, WV · United States
Austin, TX · United States
Barcelona · Spain · outside U.S. scoring scope
Redondo Beach, CA · United States
Pinecrest, CA · United States
Ottery Saint Mary · United Kingdom · outside U.S. scoring scope
San Jose, CA · United States
Limasol · Cyprus · outside U.S. scoring scope
Sao Paulo · Brazil · outside U.S. scoring scope
Paige, TX · United States
Barunah Plains · Australia · outside U.S. scoring scope
Taos, NM · United States
Las Vegas, NV · United States
Glasgow · United Kingdom · outside U.S. scoring scope
Brooklyn, MI · United States
Kingham · United Kingdom · outside U.S. scoring scope
Brisbane City · Australia · outside U.S. scoring scope
Black Mountain, NC · United States
Bowling Green, OH · United States
New Orleans, LA · United States
Thomson, GA · United States
Abiquiu, NM · United States
Manteo, NC · United States
Winona, MN · United States
Stated identity, dates, location, genre and admission price never become a checkout price, a value score or a ranking input, which require Live Index verification. The methodology sets out how records are collected and reviewed.
Two measures
A $500 festival can rate poorly on affordability and strongly on value; a cheap festival with four hours of programming can do the reverse. Publishing one number would hide that, so this product publishes two and keeps them apart.
Consumer cost only. It is built from the actual minimum amount charged at checkout for one general admission, including mandatory fees, and from the cost of a single programming day. No judgement about the lineup enters this measure at any point, which is what makes it usable as a control on the value measure rather than a restatement of it.
What the programming is worth against what it costs. Lineup market value is estimated only from observed comparable standalone ticket prices — never from guarantees or booking fees, which are not public. Headliner contribution is capped so a single act cannot carry a thin bill, and depth counts only artists billed at middle card or above.
Both measures are recomputed from their inputs whenever a price or lineup record changes. Neither is editable by hand. The full method, including the two formulas that were tested and rejected, is published in the open.
Collection status
The measurement system is built and tested; the observation rounds that feed it have not run. A price a festival advertises is not an observed checkout total, and a public listing is not an official lineup. Rather than fill the interface with numbers that would have to be invented, the register publishes its coverage and states what is missing.
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Identity fields last reviewed 2026-08-23. Ratings are unaffected by advertising, sponsorship, promoter relationships or genre preference; Live Index holds no commercial relationship with any festival, operator or ticketing company named here.