[This post is by FMC contributor Daniel Eno.]

The first annual JP Music Festival, held in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston in August 2011, was praised as an instant success and a model of effective local event production. FMC spoke with the event’s founders Rick Berlin and Shamus Moynihan, and marketing director Charlie McEnerney, about the planning and execution the festival, and the guide released shortly after the event titled “15 Steps to Starting a Local Music Festival (during a bad economy)”. read more