Music promoter and festival organiser Vince Power dies at 76

Vince Power, the man behind one of north London’s music venues, The Mean Fiddler in Harlesden. Photograph: Chris EganVince Power, the Waterford-born music promoter who was involved in events such as the Reading and Leeds music festivals, Glastonbury and the London Fleadh, has died. He was 76.

The group took control of the Reading Festival at the end of the 1980s, beginning a move into a range of other music events such as Leeds, Phoenix Festival and Hop Farm Music Festival among many others. In 2006, the Mean Fiddler group reduced its touring and promotion activities to concentrate on running festivals, maintaining control of the Reading and Leeds festivals and announced a new addition, Latitude Festival.Music industry figures paid tribute to Power on social media on Sunday, with promoter Aidan Shortall describing him as a “maverick, a pioneer, a risk-taker and a man that still had his finger on the pulse”.

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