Even Saudi Arabia, where many Islamic clerics regard film and music as the Devil's handiwork, has modest festivals in Khobar on the Gulf coast and across the peninsula in Jeddah.
Yet for all the accolades the film has received, Mr. Harnarine has had a difficult time finding a receptive audience in New York, landing screenings in relatively modest venues and minor festivals and failing to stoke any significant interest among the city's large Indo-Caribbean community.
Though often dangling on a shoestring, Peterloo was firmly established as an indispensable poetry imprint and, alongside the press, ran a modest international festival and a national competition that attracted many entries.
The posters are a monument to how modest the festival's origins are, but they also serve to remind older festivalgoers who still fancy themselves tastemakers that the chances of their favourite new discovery making it to Coachella 2017 are slim.
For one, Lincoln Center has supplied a generous budget, allowing a formerly modest-scaled festival to bring in first-rate soloists and ensembles.
The wide range of offerings in Mr. Schulz's inaugural New York event shows how far Unsound has developed from its start as a relatively modest electronic-music festival.
Despite its modest scale the festival quickly achieved international acclaim, mainly through the quality of the performers and productions Mr. Ozawa, still its director, has managed to attract.
(Her budget, around 67percentt of which is provided by the Arts Council, is fairly modest by European festival standards; about $1,067,000 this year, a slight increase from $999,000 in 2006).
This past weekend, for the third year in a row, the owners of the upstate Basilica Hudson performance venue collaborated with the curators Brian Deran and Brandon Stosuy to mount Basilica SoundScape, a model of the modest, focussed music festival.
