Accessible Festivals Launches Ticket Program With Lollapalooza, Extra – The Hollywood Reporter

Accessible Festivals has launched a brand new ticket program to make attending a number of the nation’s largest live performance occasions financially accessible to extra disabled music lovers and pageant attendees.

The non-profit introduced that Lollapalooza, Austin Metropolis Limits Music Pageant, Rolling Loud NY, Stagecoach, BottleRock Napa Valley and Electrical Daisy Carnival are amongst its pageant companions for its new Dan Grover Memorial Ticket Grant Program. Grover was one of many first accessibility consultants within the reside music trade, main ADA compliance operations on a number of the nation’s largest reveals, together with Electrical Forest, Lockn’, Life is Lovely and Exterior Lands.

Born from the experiences of the Accessible Pageant’s founder Austin Whitney — who attended his first music pageant Coachella eight months after his spinal wire was severed in a automotive accident, paralyzing him from the waist down — this system will present a restricted variety of free entry tickets to concert events, festivals and conventions for each disabled followers and their family members.

People eligible to use embody these with newly acquired, short-term or lifelong disabilities, with purposes open for 2 dozen occasions this fall together with Firefly Pageant and the Made in America Pageant. All festivals taking part within the memorial ticket program have already dedicated to establishing ADA compliance packages for his or her occasions.

Based in 2014, Accessible Festivals is concentrated on making the reside music and live performance expertise accessible for all.

Along with consulting and advising on finest practices for on-line and in-person occasion accessibility, and offering coaching and financial assist for initiatives making festivals extra accessible, the nonprofit additionally hosts the Inclusion Pageant, an annual accessible music and wellness pageant for all ages held in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The group can be working Stay for Stay Music to develop reside occasion entry throughout the U.S.