I attended a folk festival few yrs back, I think it was the Boston Folk Festival or the Hudson River Revival but I'm not sure. They announced that the main stage was completely powered by solar energy or other non fossil fueled power. Has anyone else run across other festivals using other alt energy sources to power their sound, lights & equipment?
And why not?
Couldn't most of the Sea Music Festivals use wind (the ones closest to the sea kind of blow & suck anyway,,,joke) & the Tall Ships Festivals, can't they use sail power (don't they rag bag the breezes?)?

Joking aside, if it caught on maybe some of the Rock Festivals would turn acoustic & the acoustic festivals would turn more folkie.

Really though, I think it's a great idea if it could be cost effective & noe oe would have to worry if it started to rain with all the power cords running about through the puddles.

When I got married on our farm we had a traditional Irish dance band playing on a make shift stage under a tent in case of rain. When it started to thunder & lightning. I told the band to go inside the barn other wise they'd have fried. Some folkies & dance musicians have no common sense about them. They turned out to become very good freinds, I should've left them on stage to fry. It never poured as hard again, the fields all flooded as well as the floor under the bran, knee deep everywhere.

Thanks
Barry