The summer festival stage is the seasonal arena where touring artists play to their largest crowds, amid the standard machinery of sponsor banners and sunset sets. For Alex Warren, festival stages mark the top end of a rise from homelessness to headlining. In this story, they are also where his most intimate fan ritual meets its biggest setting — urns carried through festival crowds to reach the singer whose songs are about loss.
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Mentioned in: He Lost Both Parents and Found a Choir of the Bereaved: Alex Warren and the Music of Grief