Since you admit that ticket prices aren't a deterrent to a festival from selling out, then your argument that prices are limiting the market doesn't hold water. Most festivals offer extremely good value for money: a weekend ticket for a well-known festival later this month costs £65 for 3 days with dozens of top-rate performers - compare that with the price of a couple of hours at rock concert or 90 minutes of a Premier Division football match.

At all the festivals I go to, the food concessions sell good food at reasonable prices. As for the idea that festival organisers and performers are getting rich, that's frankly laughable.

Perhaps things are different around Baltimore, but everyone else, including those in the US, seems to have a similar experience to mine.