Maybe we were naive, but the COVID crisis seemed manageable at that point. This nation is divided beyond anything Ive ever seen; from whos wearing masks or not to whos treating folks with common dignityor not. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much The band assured fans that every date will be rescheduled for the same time period next year, along with some new ones. Read the bands full statement here. Our gratitude goes out to the artists and fans who planned to join us this year, and we thank you all for your understanding. Organizers for theNew Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivalhave announced the cancellation of 2020s event due to the ongoing pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus. For now, the decision appears to mainly apply to athletic events. For the first time in longer than we can remember, todays update doesnt feature a single cancellation or postponement. Foo Fighters helped lead the charge in the return of arena and stadium concerts earlier this year. This would have marked the first Gathering of the Juggalos at the Ohio venue in 15 years. As the month of March begins and whats usually the beginning of summer festival season draws closer, were seeing a lot of movement on the cancellation/postponement/announcement front. ) to be rescheduled in the future. In that roundtable, bioethicist Zeke Emmanuelwas quoted as saying that concerts would likely not return until fall 2021 at the earliest. Organizers for Illinois Summer Camp Music Festival have announced that the 2020 event will be postponed from its original scheduled dates of May 22nd24th to August 21st-23rd, in hopes of outlasting the national spread of COVID-19. At this point, most major festivals and tours are looking past 2020 and setting hopeful sights on 2021. Ticket-holders will have 30 days to respond if they . Please reach out to your original point of purchase with questions regarding refund policies and any other ticket inquiries. As of now, the bands North American tour, set to begin on November 15th in Chicago, is still scheduled to take place as planned. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unitcanceled two and postponed five January tour dates on Tuesday due to a breakthrough case of COVID-19. Widespread Panichas canceled their long-running annual Red Rocksrun for 2020. On the other side of the country, theNewport Festivals Foundationannounced 2021 dates for bothNewport FolkandNewport Jazzfestivals. Of note, since the last edition of the festival took place in the summer of 2019, Bonnaroo has announced five different sets of dates. All tickets purchased for the 2020 event will be valid for the 2021 event, however, refund options are available as well. As the days have gone by, we have tried to navigate these ever changing times the best we could, always holding on to hope. It will now take place on October 2nd4th, joining an increasingly crowded month of rescheduled festivals. There continue to be new developments & were in constant communication with local officials. While many artists are trying to figure out how to forge on, ever more are once again throwing in the towel. The 2020 edition of Louisville, KYs Forecastle Festivalhas been canceled. In Miami, FL, the city has decided not to move into Phase 2 of the states reopening plan after a statewide spike in cases, even as Governor Ron DeSantiswelcomed the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville last week and waved the green flag at the Dixie Vodka 400 NASCAR Cup Seriesin Homestead. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced a pilot program to test the Excelsior Pass, a mobile application developed in partnership with IBM which will use proven, secure technology to confirm an individuals vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test through a confidential data transfer to help fast-track the reopening of theaters, stadiums, and other businesses in accordance with New York State guidelines. The pilot testing for the Excelsior Pass has already begun and will continue to take place during upcoming games at Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center in New York City. Head to her website for the latest information regarding tickets and tour dates and head here for more information on the iHeartRadioJingle Ball Tour. If the Americana Honors & Awards show had gone on as planned on September 16th, it would have conflicted with the virtualACM Awards, which are taking place in Nashville for the first time from three crowd-less venues: The Ryman, the Grand Ole Opry, and theBluebird Cafe. is the smallest event listed in this roundup of announcements, it appears that organizers have elected to postpone the festival once again hoping that, by next summer, staff will not have to plan around any pandemic-related safety precautions. If you buy tickets together you can sit together, but otherwise, you have to social distance, and God willing, this is the first step of what I hope is many more to come.. This model, however, is starting to show cracks with regard to its actual viability. Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 5:30 p.m. The LOCKN announcement shows the festival cancellation threshold continuing to move into June and reaffirms the month of October as the point to which festival promoters are comfortable with moving. following the May confirmation earlier this month. Electric Daisy Carnival, originally scheduled to take place from May 15th17th in Las Vegas, has been postponed. Organizers forBoston Calling Music Festival, which was scheduled to return this spring after a year off in 2020 due to COVID-19, have announced the cancelation of the 2021 event. On Saturday,The Chainsmokers hosted a high-end drive-in event in the Hamptons (NY). Angry picketers donned signs comparing theDave Grohl-led rock outfits decision to a modern form of segregation, reading Foo Fighters fight to bring segregation back and event for vaccinated only, unvaccinated not allowed.. At the time the 2020 Jazz Fest was canceled, festival organizers aimed to host the next event in the spring of 2021. The festivalstill set to occur September 8th12th in Park City, UTwill now require all attendees to be vaccinated, with the last dose received at least 14 days before the event. The Nth Powercanceled a run of four shows in the Northeast due to a positive COVID-19 test within the band. Original purchases of 2020 festival tickets, camping passes, and hotel reservations will be honored for the new dates in 2021, and fans who keep their 2020 orders will receive a $20 merch booth credit to use during the rescheduled festival. The article, The Fall of Autumn: Live Performance Producers Are Giving Up on 2020, checks in with everyone from orchestra producers to theater impresarios to independent venues to executives from promotion giants like Live NationandAEG. We have signed equal bands as replacements,we also added more TBA. While this latest blow to Bonnaroo was not dealt directly by COVID-19, the festival was only due to take place this weekend due to several prior pandemic-related postponements dating back to early March, 2020. For more information, head here. A statement shared by Outside Land organizers reads. Therefore we must announce the cancellation of the BTS Map of the Soul Tour., Back in the States, funk favoritesLettuce have pulled out of their planned set atSummer Camp Music Festival on Friday night due to COVID exposure within the band. On the one hand,Varietypublished an article quoting two music industry professionals with knowledge of the situation who stated thatCoachellaandStagecoach would not take place in 2021. Fans should head to the event website for more info. Case in point: on Monday, funk-rock nine-piece Turkuaz announced a reduced schedule for its upcoming fall tour with Thumpasaurus. Despite the seemingly unending cancelations, some artists have kept their New Years performances alive. The band will announce rescheduled dates in the near future. moe. An announcement made by the organization on Wednesday reveals the 2020 event, which was initiallypostponedback on March 12th with the original onset of COVID-19 in North America, will no longer take place at all this year. In a statement posted to social media, organizers stated that though they have been working tirelessly to assure a safe camping experience at Suwannee, the state of Florida itself has not been working as hard toward the same goal. Scheduled performers include Chris Lake, Diplo, Bonobo, Ganja White Night, Bob Moses, CloZee, Yotto, ClaudeVonStroke, andRusko. The 21-city tour will take the singer across the United States and see him playing indoor arenas including Madison Square Garden, Allstate Arena in Illinois, American Airlines Center in Texas, and many more. While Coachella did not post its new vaccine policy its social media pages, the festival did update its website with the exact same language, which applies to its event at the same location on April 15th17th and 22nd24th. State and local ordinances vary widely and no one can predict when high capacity events will safely return. Forecastle Festival will be taking a pause in 2021 and will return stronger than ever in 2022. The final result showed that none of the 463 concertgoers were infected with SARS-CoV-2, while two of the 496 members of the control group were infected. Tickets for the show are available on all major ticketing platforms like Vivid Seats, StubHub, Ticketmaster, TicketCity . Wednesdays announcement follows the last major update from Hog Farm organizers back when April when the festival was, in wishful thinking, pushed back to the weekend of September 18th20th, 2020. Big love to my band and crew.. The festival is now rescheduled for April 8th-11th, 2021. A statement shared by the band on Wednesday reads, We remained hopeful that we might be able to tour this fall, however due to the realties surrounding Covid19, we are postponing all CA, TX & OK 20 dates to Sept 21. The all-star Central Park show was intended to celebrate a return to normalcy for the city, but unforeseen obstacles remain ever-presentin this case, Mother Nature. Kentuckys curve has been trending upward since the beginning of July, and just this past weekend recorded some of its highest numbers of new cases since the pandemic began. The Chillicothe, IL festival, featuring host bands moe. With great regret, we must announce that this years Glastonbury Festival will not take place, and that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. The performance will still go on, but with updated protocols in place including mandatory testing for all guests. Billy Joel has canceled his very last Madison Square Garden show of 2022 due to an illness he contracted. The mob of anti-vaxxers was there protesting the bands decision to only allow those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend the concert at the 600-person capacity venue (the rooms first full capacity show in 15 months). According to a number of health experts reached for comment in a new report fromRolling Stone, concerts in late 2020 are looking less and less like a sure thing. With uncertainty around the status of live music in early 2021, Genesis has now decided to start the tour on Wednesday, September 15th, at Dublin, Irelands3Arena. In a Facebook post announcing the postponement, the band said: Its better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret, for the safety of our families, for our crews, for the fans and for the Blue Army. After seeing first-hand the low transmission data and successful implementation of safety protocols at our other festivals this past month, we feel confident that we can update our Stagecoach 2022 policy, a statement posted to the festivals Twitter page read. Additionally, all programming will now take place at The Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater at Deer Valley, all staff will be vaccinated, all artists will be required to either be fully vaccinated or show proof of a negative COVID test within 48 hours, the festivals capacity will be cut to 50%, social distancing will be enforced, masks will be required, and more. Back in November of 2020, city officials announced that all New Orleans Mardi Gras parades would be permitted in Februaryan anticipatory move informed by projections of what the pandemic situation might be at that point in time. Isle of Wight, on the other hand, is another of the U.K.s long-standing pop megafestivals, in the same vein asGlastonbury, which has also been canceled. With that in mind, we have made the very difficult decision to cancel the tour so we can help support the people who have supported us for years. Organizers for events including Coachella, Bonnaroo, and Summer Camp Music Festival are also hoping that the severity of the pandemic will lessen over summer as theyve also pushed their own 2020 festivals back to the coming fall months. With no end to the concert shutdown in sight, many festivals are beginning to launch virtual events instead. [UPDATE 9/29/21]: Anastasio announced on Wednesday that hisPhish bandmate,Jon Fishman, will fill in on drums for the final four shows of the fall 2021 Trey Anastasio Band tour. While many large-scale events around the country have already set their sights on the Fall, this latest development could indicate that September/October may no longer be looking as viable as they did a few weeks ago. The Man, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and more. The highly contagious variant is disrupting shows abroad as well as in the U.S.King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have canceled their Timelandfestival initially scheduled to take place in Tallarook, roughly an hours drive north of Melbourne, Australia over New Years weekend. The past six days have brought with them a flurry of announcements of festivals and whole tours. While bands across the country have managed to find ways to play shows over the last few months, the threat of the virus as a spoiler remains for even the safest, most socially-distanced outdoor concert models. We are excited for this opportunity to reopen our doors and welcome concert-goers back to Rupp Arena!. As the usual summer tour season gets closer and closer, large-scale engagements continue to set their sights on 2021 rather than trying to navigate the minefield that is 2020. In New York, MSG Entertainment on Friday canceled four showings of its Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes due to COVID -19 cases in the production. The company, which also operates NYC venues like The Beacon Theatre andMadison Square Garden, later made the call to cancel the remainder of the Rockettes season at Radio City Music Hall, which was scheduled to run through January 2nd, 2022. The health and safety of the Outside Lands and San Francisco communities have always been and will continue to be our top priority. Furthermore, Thursday afternoon also saw a COVID-related announcement from the Arizona-based jam quartetSpafford. drive-in shows atVernon Downshave been canceled. Plus,Springsteen on Broadway is back! Doja Cathas pulled out of the remaining iHeartRadioJingle Ball Tour dates after testing positive for COIVD-19. The virtual induction broadcast will feature the acceptance speeches from the class of 2020, along with interviews with inductees and artists by whom theyve been influenced, archival content, and more. Were also starting to see the cancellation of some drive-in shows as positive tests pop up within touring crewsanother wrinkle of COVID-era touring that seems somewhat unavoidable as the virus rages on. Currently, the state has administered 1.7 million vaccines with the 70% threshold translating to roughly 4.7 million people. Bunbury, which takes place in Cincinnati on the shores of the Ohio River, had planned to wait out the initial stay-at-home order, which was due to expire on April 6th. Due to unfortunate COVID-related circumstances, we made the decision to reschedule the January 14th concert at MSG., Before Wednesday ended, live music fans received more bad news withDead & Companyannouncing thatguitaristJohn Mayerwould not appear at the first weekend of the bands 2022Playing In The Sandevent in Mexico taking place on January 7th10th after testing positive for COVID-19. The group is marketing the performance as the first indoor arena concert in the country since the pandemic beganapproved by the Governor., We have been in contact with the KY State Department of Health for many weeks working out the details and coming up with a plan that fulfills the safety protocols recommended by the CDC and the Commonwealth of Kentucky,Lexington Center CorporationCEO/PresidentBill Owensaid of the upcoming event. Billy Joelhas rescheduled his performances atMadison Square Garden for the fall of 2021 and winter 2022. As cases continue to drop, vaccines continue to be distributed, and capacity restrictions continue to be relaxed, the second half of 2021 is looking more and more normal for the live music world every day. Over Labor Day Weekend, the band was forced toperform without drummerCarter BeaufordandbassistStefan Lessardafter both were exposed to the virus ahead of the bands run atThe Gorge. A statement shared to TOOLs social media page on Thursday reads. Luckily, DMB found a substitute inBen Golder-Novick. Today also brought the official cancellation ofFirefly Music Festival, originally set to take place from June 18th21st. The large scale gathering also marks the final megafestival of the summer to be rescheduled, following others such asCoachella and Bonnaroo. The annual end-of-summer festival will hopefully return in September 2021, with possible smaller events set to take place until then. While this is far from the first early-June event weve seen get postponed, the rescheduled dates in August seem to indicate an increasingly common notion that large-scale concerts may be viable come late-Summer. On March 12th, festival organizers had announced that BUKU had been postponed, and would now take place over Labor Day weekend in early September. Ethan Miller/GI. Meanwhile, the bands sold out three-night run in Chicago, originally rescheduled from April 2nd4th, is still set to occur August 20th22nd. Due to the increased transmission of the new Covid-19 variant and to further minimize any potential risks, as a precautionary measure and for the safety of our staff, talent and guests, we have made the decision to cancel tonights iHeartRadio Y100 Jingle Ball, the official iHeartRadio Instagram account posted on Sunday. We appreciate your understanding and support throughout these unprecedented times and well keep you posted with more information soon.. We look forward to seeing you all as soon as it is safe for everyone to do so.. Epicenter,Welcome To Rockville, and Sonic Temple have all been canceled for 2020 byDanny Wimmer Presents. I did hear from some artists who wanted to confirm, Hey, weve got a show coming up. Click here to revisit Live For Live Musics on-site coverage from the 2019 event. Dopapod added to the fire on Thursday as well, canceling the bands three-night New Years Eve run across Texas. The announcement comes after the band implemented a mandatory testing/vaccination/mask policy for the now-postponed showsearlier this week. The lengthy summer tour would have seen the band perform the music featured on A Farewell to Kingsthe first Rush album bassist/singerLes Claypoolever heardin addition to original material out of the Primus songbook. Organizers at festivals including Northwest String Summitand Governors Ball have announced rescheduled dates for their planned 2021 and 2022 events. The band, however, has not given up hope regarding smaller-scale shows this summer. Out of a similar abundance of caution, the band postponed the Boston show as well as an August 10th show in Ohio. In a new feature,The New York Times spoke to the movers and shakers in every corner of the live event industry about the potential fate of events in late 2020. In short, they surmised that with protocols in place for more risky elements of the concert experienceincluding staggered entry times, mask mandates, restrictions on concessions, temperature checks, installation of specific air filtration/ventilation systems, and a few moreconcerts could move forward without much risk of spreading the virus. Officials in New York, including MayorBill de Blasioand the citys Cultural Affairs CommissionerGonzalo Casals, introduced the Open Culture program which will open up to 115 designated city streets in all five NYC boroughs for ticketed performing arts events. While the Chicago Department of Public Health does not think that Lolla or other large events are the issue, the continued rise in cases cannot be denied. Lettuce, who just had to cancel a set aSummer Camp Music Festival due to a positive case in the band, announced on Monday that the bands upcoming sets atHot August Music Festival andTedeschi Trucks Bands LOCKN Farmevent have also been canceled. As coronavirus lockdowns continue worldwide, Munich, GermanysOktoberfest, which takes place annually at the end of September and beginning of October, has been canceled for 2020. These measures will go into effect on August 19th when JRAD plays Cleveland, OH and remain in practice until further notice. For more information, head here. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has officially canceled its October 2021 event. Newport Folk is set to return toFort Adams State Parkin Newport, RI July 23rd28th while its jazz counterpart will take place July 30thAugust 1st. Today, the band released a note urging fans to have a good measure of caution and common sense as the show gets back on the road. We look forward to sharing more information around headliners, lineup and vendors as we get closer to the 2022 festival. The Peach Music Festival, originally scheduled to take place on July 4th weekend at Scranton, PAs Montage Mountain, has been officially rescheduled to Independence Day Weekend 2021. The decision to move the tour again is due to the global pandemic, and even with the roll out of the vaccine, there are still a huge amount of uncertainties and unanswered questions that make a tour in April difficult for everyone, said the band in a statement. Of note, Nashville, TNthe music cityhas entered phase two of its reopening plan, which allows for certain live performances to resume with social distancing measures in place. The idea has sparked optimism in live events promoters and musicians alike. Smaller venues are looking outside the normal concert sphere to stay afloat. Thank you for your incredible continued support. He thanked the fans for their support and wished them good health before delivering the unfortunate news. Spaffordplayed in front of a live audience during a performance at Mesa, AZs Digital Drive-In on Sunday night. On Tuesday another large festival, PepsisGulf Coast Jam, canceled its Labor Day Weekend event in Panama City, FL due to mounting COVID concerns in the area. The rescheduled 2021 dates will now pick up next summer on August 18th in Mansfield, MA, and will continue through the fall before wrapping on October 6th in Lafayette, LA. As a statement from the band noted, This is a hugely frustrating development for the band who are devastated with this unlucky turn of events. A survey of over 500 epidemiologists appearing in The New York Timesshows that 64 percent of respondents would be comfortable going to a sporting event, concert, or play in a year or more. Those dates, too, were pushed back to October as the pandemic picture continued to develop.
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