Accessible Festivals, a nonprofit devoted to enhancing accessibility at music and leisure festivals, has launched a ticket grant program that’s giving freely free entry to a few of the largest festivals within the nation, together with Lollapalooza, Austin Metropolis Limits, Stagecoach, Electrical Daisy Carnival and plenty of extra.
The Dan Grover Memorial Ticket Grant Program will present a restricted variety of complimentary pageant passes to folks with disabilities and their companions. All of the festivals taking part in this system, together with two dozen occasions this fall, have well-established accessibility compliance packages.
opens in a brand new windowAccessible Festivals was based by Austin Whitney, a wheelchair consumer whose experiences attending Coachella and different music festivals he credit with serving to him handle anxiousness and melancholy following his spinal wire damage. “I didn’t know if I might ever be capable of be comfortable once more. I went to my first music pageant, nonetheless, six months after my automotive accident, and it was at that place that I had my first real smile,” stated Whitney.
Whitney began Accessible Festivals to assist enhance the pageant expertise for wheelchair customers and folks with a wide range of disabilities, and the group now works with a few of the nation’s largest occasion promoters to enhance their entry and lodging. The ticket grant program is meant to honor Dan Grover, a wheelchair consumer with muscular dystrophy who helped pioneer entry packages for a lot of reside music occasions.
opens in a brand new windowClick on right here for extra data on rating your individual free pageant tickets, or go straight to opens in a brand new windowthe grant software to see a listing of upcoming reveals.
