How is the industry grappling with artist boycotts?
Following multiple cancelled performances at SXSW and The Great Escape due to their sponsors' ties to Israel, IQ investigates the wider impacts...
News By Lisa Henderson | 28 May 2024
The last couple of months have seen artist boycotts ripple through the showcase festival season, with hundreds of acts pulling out of SXSW in Austin, and others from new music showcase festival The Great Escape (TGE) due to their sponsors’ ties to Israel.
More than 100 speakers and acts pulled out of March’s SXSW in protest of the Texas event’s sponsorship by the US Army and its support for Israel during the Gaza war. A similar number of acts were…
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