music festival

Summer music festivals offer a fun way to hear the country's best bands, but between tickets, travel, food and accommodations, they aren't cheap. So we asked directors and promoters of some of the summer's top events for their favorite penny-pinching tips for festival-goers.

Buying stuff on layaway has been around for a long time for buying such things as a TV, patio set and Christmas gifts. Now music fans can do it with concert tickets, too. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., is selling a $269 three-day pass on layaway -- in either two...