A lot of festivals (in Scotland at least) got a helping hand from local authorities who had some other kind of event going on at the same time. The Auchtermuchty folk festival did very well piggybacking on the community festival - shared venues and publicity. Then the council told them to get lost. Moving the folk content to Falkland has left it in obscurity and whatever the Auchtermuchty community festival may be doing has remained a mystery to me (probably just a lot of people getting drunk).

What relationships with the council have other festivals had? Where have those relationships continued?