The phrase "alternative festival" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a festival that offers different or non-mainstream activities, themes, or experiences compared to traditional festivals.
Example: "The alternative festival featured indie music, art installations, and workshops focused on sustainability."
Alternatives: "non-traditional festival" or "indie festival".
Is that the sole reason for moving/having an alternative festival?
One day we'll have an alternative festival here called Windsor Hill Woodstock.
Luckily, there's the more innovative Chelsea Fringe, which launched on Friday, promising an alternative festival that is as much about people as plants.
(Dave Kehr) THE BEST OF SLAMDANCE 2008 (Monday and Tuesday) Two nights of films from the alternative festival that takes place in the enveloping shadow of Sundance.
"In the days when Glasto was an alternative festival it was quite interesting, but anywhere Gwyneth Paltrow goes and you can live in an air-conditioned yurt is not for me".
The movie, Ms. Jordan's first feature, was shown at Slamdance, the alternative festival that runs parallel to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah each January, and several other festivals in the United States and Europe.
Cafe noticeboards are a good way to find out about the more alternative festivals and obscure tie-in events.
The nation's landed gentry, ever eager to diversify as maintenance fees soar and farming profits plummet, are turning over their gardens and fields to promoters looking to buy a slice of the booming market for alternative festivals.
Whether or not the album yields a club smash, the combination of both artists' fan bases allows them to work all sorts of stages, from reggae and hip-hop events to alternative festivals.
The grandfather of alternative festivals, Burning Man gets its name from a 40-foot sculpture of a man that the "Burners" set aflame in the Nevada desert at the end of each summer festival.
Alongside the Do LaB's Lightning in a Bottle, Symbiosis has developed into a crown jewel of the so-called "transformational" circuit, a network of grassroots alternative festivals driven by Burner themes––sustainability, self-reliance, progressive politics––set to the beat of electronic music.
