Music Festival Word Cloud
What do Run the Jewels, Shakey Graves, and Odesza have in common? Well, musically, not much, but in terms of major music festivals, they are three of the most frequent performers for 2015. Using Vivid Seats’ Guide to Music Festivals as a starting point, we compiled a list of acts booked for at least three music festivals included in the list below.
Featured Music Festivals 2015:
Austin City Limits | Beale Street Music Festival | Big Guava | Bonnaroo | Boston Calling | BottleRock | Bumbershoot | Bunbury | California Roots | Cincinnati Music Festival | Coachella | Electric Forest | Essence | Firefly | FloydFest | Forecastle Festival | Governors Ball | Hangout | KAABOO | Life Is Beautiful | Lockn | Lollapalooza | M3 Rock Festival | Mother’s Day Music Fest | Mountain Jam | New Orleans Jazz Fest | Newport Folk Festival | Osheaga | Ottawa Bluesfest | Outside Lands | OVO | Paradiso | Peach Music Festival | Pitchfork | Pot of Gold | Riot Fest | Rock in Rio | Sasquatch! | Spring Awakening | Squamish Valley Music Festival | Summer Ends | Summerfest | Sweetlife | Treasure Island | Ultra | XPoNential
When all was said and done, that amounted to 275 bands, which were then thrown into Wordle according to the number of appearances:
1st Place - 11 festivals
Run the Jewels, Shakey Graves, Odesza
2nd Place - 9 festivals
Benjamin Booker, Hozier, Strand of Oaks, Sylvan Esso, G-Eazy, Sturgill Simpson
3rd Place - 8 festivals
Father John Misty, Glass Animals, Vance Joy, Kendrick Lamar, Milky Chance, Skylar Spence, St. Vincent, SZA, Tame Impala, ToveLo, Ryn Weaver, Brand New, First Aid Kit