UK festival bosses react to gender balance report
A BBC study, which focused on the 2022 line-ups of 50 of the biggest festivals in the UK, found that only one in 10 headliners are female
News By James Hanley | 26 May 2022
UK festival promoters have responded to a BBC study which revealed that only one in 10 headliners at this summer’s leading festivals are female.
The study, which focused on 50 of the biggest festivals in the UK, found that, out of 200 headline acts, 13% were an all-female band or solo artist, 74.5% were either an all-male band or solo artist, 12% had a mixed line-up of male and female performers and 0.5% identified as non-binary.
The figures come despite a series of gender balance initiatives…
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