Accessible Festivals is helping people with disabilities get to their favorite fall music festivals—for free.
The nonprofit organization dedicated to improving accessibility in the live events space has just opened applications for its seasonal Dan Grover Memorial Ticket Grant Program, which provides free access to recreational experiences, concerts, festivals, and conventions for individuals with disabilities and their loved ones.
Multi-genre festivals like Lollapalooza, Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, and Ocean’s Calling, as well as massive raves like Nocturnal Wonderland, Portola, EDC Orlando, and Countdown NYE, are among the festival tickets up for grabs in the late summer and fall 2024 program.
Hopeful attendees are invited to share their diagnosis, personal story, and love for music via Accessible Festival’s online grant application for a chance to receive two tickets to one of the festivals above and others.
Accessible Festivals seeks to grant these festival passes to people who lack the resources to purchase a ticket or particularly need something to look forward to. As such, preference is given to individuals who have recently been injured or diagnosed with a disease, ailment, or disorder that results in a disability, according to the application.
First launched in 2022, the grant honors the legacy of Dan Grover. Undeterred by his diagnosis with Muscular Dystrophy at a young age, Grover turned his passion for music into a lifelong profession, becoming one of the first Accessibility Consultants in the live music industry and improving the ADA operations of some of the nation’s largest festivals, like Electric Forest, Outside Lands, and many more.
Since its founding in 2014, Accessible Festivals has spearheaded a movement to destigmatize disability and create equitable spaces in live music and entertainment through comprehensive ADA consulting and inclusion initiatives at events across the country. Founder Austin Whitney serves as ADA compliance director for some of the nation’s biggest events, like Coachella, Stagecoach, the PGA Tour, and more.
Fans can apply for Accessible Festivals’ Dan Grover Memorial Ticket Grant Program here. For more information, visit accessiblefestivals.org.
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