Examples of useful festival histories are:
Steven Gallup, A History of the Salzburg Festival (London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson,
1987).
John Pettigrew, and Jamie Portman, Foreword by Robertson Davies, Stratford: The First Thirty Years 2 Vols. (Toronto:
Macmillan of Canada, 1985).
Tom Patterson, founder of the Festival, and Allan Gould, First Stage: The Making of the Stratford Festival (Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 1987).
Grace Lydiatt Shaw, Stratford Under Cover: Memories on Tape (Toronto: N.C. Press Limited, 1977).
Alistair Moffat, The Edinburgh Fringe (London: Johnston & Bacon, 1978).
John Julius Norwich, Fifty Years of Glyndebourne: An Illustrated History (London: Jonathan Cape, 1985).
Fannia Weingartner, ed., Ravinia: The Festival at its Half Century,(Ravinia: Ravinia Festival Association and Rand
McNally & Company, 1985).
Alfreda L. Irwin, Three Taps of the Gavel: Pledge to the Future The Chautauqua Story (1970; Chautauqua: Chautauqua
Institution, New York, 1987).