Old Settler's Music Festival

What Old Settler's Music Festival does

Old Settler's Music Festival is a U.S. non-profit organization that has hosted an annual multi-genre music event since 1987, headquartered in Dale, Texas. The event combines live music performances across multiple genres with family-oriented activities and on-site camping, serving regional attendees in the Texas Hill Country / Central Texas corridor.

The festival's core "product" is the live event itself — a multi-day gathering of performers, audience, and on-site campers. No technology stack, software platform, or digital product surface is disclosed in the source data; the organization's website (oldsettlersmusicfest.org) is active but returned only a verification page during data collection. There is no indication of app, API, integration, or proprietary technical infrastructure underlying the event.

The business model is consistent with a non-profit event operator: revenue is generated primarily through ticket sales, on-site camping fees, vendor concessions, and sponsorship, but no pricing model, ticket tiers, sponsorship structure, or financials are disclosed. The organization operates with 1-10 employees and a single annual event cadence, which limits fixed-cost overhead but creates full-year revenue dependence on a brief operating window. No parent company, subsidiaries, funding rounds, M&A activity, or partnerships are documented.

Name

Old Settler's Music Festival

Website

https://oldsettlersmusicfest.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Old Settler's Music Festival is a non-profit organization founded in 1987 that hosts an annual multi-genre music event with live performances, family activities, and on-site camping in Dale, Texas. It serves regional attendees and operates with a small staff of 1-10 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Music Festivals

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (711320), Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Concerts & Music Festivals (THAJAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cultural & Community Festivals (Ticketed) (THAJAFAI), Arts & Culture Community Festivals (Multidisciplinary Arts Weeks) (MPAGAEAG), Cultural Festivals & Events Organizations (BPAGAHAG)

Keywords

• Live music festivals
• Outdoor music events
• Multi-genre concerts
• Family camping events
• Annual music festival

Headquarters

HQ city

Dale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Supply Chain, Others

Core offering

Old Settler's Music Festival organizes an annual multi-genre music festival featuring live performances, family activities, and on-site camping. The event is held in Dale, Texas and operates as a non-profit organization founded in 1987, delivering a multi-day live entertainment experience for individual attendees and families.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Old Settler's Music Festival (Annual Event)

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• FloydFest: Virginia-based multi-genre music and arts festival with camping and family activities, run on a community-oriented model that closely mirrors Old Settler's festival-and-camping format.
• Telluride Bluegrass Festival: Iconic Colorado-based multi-genre/bluegrass festival with on-site camping and a destination-festival feel; directly comparable to Old Settler's on multi-genre live music plus camping, though at a larger scale.
• MerleFest: Annual multi-genre roots, Americana, and bluegrass festival held in North Carolina with camping and family programming; comparable to Old Settler's in its multi-genre roots format, on-site camping, and non-profit/community orientation.
• Kerrville Folk Festival: Long-running Texas-based non-profit folk and Americana festival with on-site camping and a similar community/roots-music focus, making it one of the closest direct comparables to Old Settler's Music Festival in geography, format, and scale.
• Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival: Tennessee-based multi-genre music and cultural festival with on-site amenities and family programming; a comparable destination community festival in format and audience profile.

Broad incumbents

• Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival: Major national multi-genre destination festival with camping and family programming; a much larger incumbent in the same multi-genre-plus-camping category, useful as a scale benchmark for Old Settler's potential ceiling.
• South by Southwest (SXSW): Austin's flagship multi-genre music, film, and technology event; a broad incumbent in the Texas live-music ecosystem that competes for the same regional talent, sponsors, and audience attention as Old Settler's.
• Austin City Limits Music Festival: Large multi-genre festival in Austin, Texas that overlaps with Old Settler's geographic Texas audience and multi-genre roots programming, but operates at vastly greater scale and brand recognition.
• Firefly Music Festival: Multi-genre camping festival in the Mid-Atlantic; broader incumbent in the same camping-plus-multi-genre format category, useful for sizing ticketed camping-festival economics.

Others

• Old Settler's Music Festival (national ticketing platforms): Eventbrite is a major ticketing and event-discovery platform that small community festivals like Old Settler's depend on for distribution; included as an ecosystem/adjacent participant rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Oldsettler
• Facebookfacebook.com/oldsettlers
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/old-settlers-music-festival

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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