This year's astonishing three-hour-plus set by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was not just the highlight of Sea.Hear.Now 2024, but of the festival's six year history.
As the music industry's biggest festivals cancel their summer plans, here are three great events with relatively moderate crowd sizes that are very much still on the books.
Sea Hear Now isn't just an instant success. It's also the only festival where you can hear Joan Jett shred a guitar while watching Quincy Davis shred the gnar.
So your friends all bailed? Well, maybe you don't have to eat that ticket. How to get out of your comfort zone and hit that faraway music fest all by yourself.