Sentence examples for festival needed from inspiring English sources

Many saw the subsequent signing of Prince for Saturday night as evidence that the festival needed a boost to spur ticket sales.

Cousins, who describes himself, Swinton and Myles as the "dreamy outsiders", said the festival needed its "Ziggy Stardust moment".

"It seemed clear that the festival needed more artistic direction," said Ms. Thomson, who changed the open program policy in 1998.

But the organizers of the Tribeca New Music Festival needed to find a larger space this year after events sold out during the last two seasons at the Flea Theater downtown.

Just when it is most needed, "Christian Marclay: Festival" takes the "me" out of performance art.

Local artists say they hope the inaugural Digital Long Island festival will help bring much-needed exposure to their work.

Organizers say the festival could provide a much-needed vitamin shot of surprise — if not necessarily of lucre — to an independent movie sector bummed out by largely dismal box office results this year.

Given the heavy themes of a lot of Cannes titles, the festival will be receiving a much-needed injection of really bright colours with the first screening of Pixar's latest, Inside Out.

ARTS After days and nights of rain puddling on the red carpet and grim tidings darkening the screens at the Cannes Film Festival, the Coen brothers delivered both much-needed levity and an expressive, piercing story about artistic struggle.

He then reached out to his friend Mariska Leyssius drummer for the punk band Psi Com to provide some much-needed organization to the DIY festival.

He then reached out to his friend Mariska Leyssius keyboardist for the punk band Psi Com to provide some much-needed organization to the DIY festival.