How Do Loud Music Festivals Effect Hearing?

Music festivals are extremely fun, but they also can be harmful to your hearing. MNN.com reports, "Live concerts have played a large part in the rise of noise-induced hearing loss over the past few decades for music fans and musicians alike... A concert can produce decibel levels twice as high as a normal conversation. How loud is a live concert in comparison to normal sounds levels? The decibel level of a normal conversation is roughly 40 to 60 decibels.