While many festivals have already taken steps towards reducing their environmental footprint, the question arises: how can they transcend these efforts and create an even greater positive influence?

Festivals, alongside popular culture at large, hold a distinct position and wield significant power in promoting societal transformation with the receptive nature of festival audiences, seeking refuge from their everyday lives within a utopian-like culture. Festivals can channel new ideas, perspectives, and inspire their audiences to act on some of the pressing issues of our time. But how do the festivals handle this responsibility, what are the possibilities, and what do they need from other music business actors in order to fill that role?

We delve into the vast potential of festivals as catalysts for change - both at the festival but also far beyond the festival site. The panel is presented by the project led by Roskilde Festival ‘Music and Music Festivals as Change Drivers’.