Focus on the "memorable moments"

There are many ways to cover a music festival, and we appreciate the differing approaches. For example, day by day reporting from the scene conveys the immediacy and excitement of the festival experience, and is a great approach when you have on-site internet access and the willingness to spend time writing and posting each day.

In many cases, Festival Preview bloggers will wait to submit their festival reports until after the event. That's great too, though we like to publish blogs within a few days after the end of the festival. If it ends on a Sunday, our goal is to have our coverage up by the next Wednesday.

That leaves bloggers with the task of summing up multiple days of nonstop music and festival immersion in a short time and limited length. We've found that a useful format for doing that is to focus on the festival's "memorable moments."

I've used that approach in a number of my own festival wrapups. For an example, here is my report of the memorable moments from the recent Spring Strawberry Music Festival.

The format lets you summarize festival highlights with one interesting paragraph, a clever subheading and ideally a photograph. Stringing together a series of such items produces a festival summary that's quick to produce and fun to read.