Festivals

Multi-stage festival production, touring series management, and live streaming infrastructure—coordinating artists, logistics, and broadcast-quality capture with REMI workflows and cloud-based production. Serving clients across the U.S. and worldwide.

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Overview

BMG works with festival promoters, touring artists, venue operators, and sponsors to deliver broadcast-quality festival productions—from single-stage concerts to multi-day, multi-stage events with overlapping performances and complex logistics. Our model integrates live production, event management, REMI workflows, and creative services to support compressed load-ins, union coordination, artist requirements, and simultaneous stage operations. Whether the goal is a global livestream, a touring festival series, or comprehensive on-site content capture, BMG provides the technical infrastructure, staffing, and operational oversight required for a smooth festival environment and exceptional audience experience.

Common challenges we solve — and what you gain

How BMG solves it:
We deploy pre-configured production systems, manage union labor, coordinate freight, and plan efficient sequences for setup and teardown inside 24–48-hour windows.

Outcome:
A predictable, stress-free buildout that meets tight venue or city restrictions.

How BMG solves it:
We assign coordinated crews across stages, unify comms systems, and centralize technical supervision through cloud-connected infrastructure.

Outcome:
Consistent broadcast quality across every stage with no missed moments.

How BMG solves it:
We manage permits, street closures, power distribution, internet deployment, public safety coordination, and union jurisdiction.

Outcome:
Smooth operations in busy civic environments and high-visibility locations.

How BMG solves it:
We handle technical riders, stage plots, audio requirements, set changeovers, and last-minute scheduling changes across the full lineup.

Outcome:
A seamless experience for artists and management teams with fast, accurate turnarounds.

How BMG solves it:
We deploy multi-camera capture, cinematic camera packages, and REMI-enabled switching with broadcast audio mixing.

Outcome:
Festival energy preserved for live audiences and delivered flawlessly to global viewers.

How BMG solves it:
We build robust redundancy—including weather-protected gear, backup power, covered positions, and alternate routing paths.

Outcome:
Continuity and safety even when conditions change unexpectedly.

How BMG solves it:
We integrate MAM workflows, ISO recording, metadata tagging, and post-event organization for every performance.

Outcome:
A complete content library ready for artist deliverables, sizzles, social distribution, and future marketing campaigns.

Formats and delivery options

Single-Stage Concerts: Multi-camera broadcasts with cinematic coverage, audience reactions, performance energy capture, and live streaming to ticketed virtual audiences.

Multi-Stage Festivals: Coordinated production across simultaneous stages with dedicated crews, shared infrastructure, and centralized technical management.

Touring Festival Series: Repeatable production templates enabling consistent quality across multi-city tours with efficient load-in and venue adaptation.

Urban Festival Activations: Street closures and city-center productions managing public access, permits, logistics, and brand activations in high-visibility locations.

Hybrid Festival Experiences: Combined in-venue experiences with global live streaming, social amplification, and on-demand replay for extended audience reach.

Distribution platforms: Live streaming to ticketed platforms, YouTube, Twitch, social channels, festival apps, and broadcast partners with synchronized audio mixing and multi-camera switching.

Related Services

Live Production (On-site, Hybrid, Virtual)

End-to-end festival execution including multi-stage direction, artist coordination, and broadcast-quality streaming.

Multi-Camera Production

Hard cams, handhelds, Steadicam, jib, drone, POV, and PTZ packages capturing performance energy with cinematic detail.

Remote Production (REMI)

Centralized switching and audio mixing at BMG’s Cloud Control Center for cost-effective, scalable multi-city festival series.

Event Management & Touring

Venue liaison, union labor coordination, freight management, and compressed timeline execution for festivals and touring shows.

24/7 Network Operations Center (NOC)

Real-time monitoring, backup transmission paths, and incident response during high-stakes performances.

MAM, Storage & Archive

Metadata-tagged festival content—ISO feeds, interviews, full performances, and B-roll—for easy retrieval and post-event marketing.

Creative Content

Festival graphics packages, artist lower thirds, sponsor integrations, social assets, and post-event sizzle reels.

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Case Study: Two Friends | Big Bootie Land Chicago (Touring Festival Series)

BMG live-streamed Two Friends’ 90-minute Big Bootie Land concert at Huntington Bank Pavilion, Chicago, part of their recurring festival series reaching over 10,000 attendees. The production utilized a comprehensive 12-camera package (hard, handheld, Steadicam, jib, drone, POV, PTZ) and BMG’s REMI workflow, combining an on-site mobile unit with Cloud Control Center support and remote audio mixing from New York. This delivered broadcast-quality coverage to the venue and online streaming audience, demonstrating BMG’s capability for scalable, cost-effective REMI infrastructure for touring festivals while maintaining high production values.

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Case Study: CBGB Music Festival (Times Square, New York)

BMG provided comprehensive live production, technical management, and staffing for the all-day CBGB Music Festival in Times Square. The complex operation included coordinating seven city block street closures and managing ten staggered band performances across two simultaneous stages, all within a 24-hour access window. Production featured three cameras with ISO recording on one stage and nine-camera coverage with live switching and full ISO capture on the main stage. BMG managed all festival logistics, including budgeting, city permits, union coordination, broadcast consulting, load-in/strike, and technical execution, plus integrated a Billy Idol concert. This case study demonstrates BMG’s capability for executing complex urban festivals with compressed timelines, multi-stage coordination, and city-center logistics.

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FAQs

Yes. We coordinate multi-stage productions with dedicated crews, shared technical infrastructure, centralized communications, and stage managers ensuring seamless artist changeovers and consistent broadcast quality across all stages simultaneously.

Our event management team coordinates efficient setup and teardown sequences, manages union labor requirements, supervises freight logistics, and deploys pre-configured production systems enabling full festival infrastructure deployment within 24-48 hour access windows.

Yes. We deploy remote production infrastructure for touring artists and festival series, centralizing switching, graphics, and audio mixing at our Cloud Control Center while minimizing on-site crew footprint, enabling cost-effective execution across multi-city tours with consistent production quality.

Yes. We record isolated camera feeds from all positions plus the live program feed, providing complete content libraries for post-event editing, artist deliverables, marketing campaigns, and social amplification with organized metadata and fast retrieval.

Our event management services include venue liaison, permit coordination, city planning department communication, street closure logistics, public safety coordination, and compliance with municipal requirements for urban festival productions.

Yes. We develop comprehensive contingency plans including weather backup procedures, equipment redundancy, backup transmission paths, generator coordination, and emergency protocols ensuring festival continuity during outdoor productions and technical incidents.

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