CMA Fest Canceled; Dates for 2021 Event Announced

Knotfest Japan is moving to 2021

It's official, Swifties will have to wait until 2021 to see Lover performed live again.Taylor Swift took to social media on Friday (April 17) to announce that she has cancelled all of her 2020 live appearances and performances amid the worldwide pandemic, including "Lover Fest East" and "Lover Fest West." The shows will now happen sometime next year."I'm so sad I won't be able to see you guys in concert this year, but I know this is the right decision," the songstress wrote alongside an official

The 2020 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was officially canceled Thursday, the latest economic and entertainment industry casualty in Louisiana’s fight to halt the spread of the new coronavirus.Festival organizers had already postponed the festival, which usually spans two spring weekends, until the fall. But they announced on the festival website that they would not attempt this year to hold the event.

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Consequence of Sound has announced Angel from Maywood: A Livestream Tribute to John Prine. The homage to Prine, who died earlier this week, will feature performances by the Decemberists' Colin Meloy, Kevin Morby, the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle, Grace Potter, Norah Jones, the Head and the Heart, Lake Street Dive, and more. The tribute will stream on Saturday, April 11 at 2 p.m. Eastern on CoS’ Instagram account.

Burning Man organizers announced Friday night (April 10) that they will not move forward with the 2020 event, due to the coronavirus pandemic."After much listening, discussion, and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision not to build Black Rock City in 2020," the statement, posted to the Burning Man Project website, reads in part. "Given the painful reality of COVID-19, one of the greatest global challenges of our lifetimes, we believe this is the right thing to do.

The boys will be back in town at a later date

It's going to be "fucking mind-blowing"

Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe says he is ready to declare a state of emergency from as early as Tuesday, as part of a growing response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The declaration would affect Tokyo, second city Osaka and five other densely populated prefectures.

AEG's beachside festival Hangout Fest has announced that it will not be able to proceed with the May 15-17 event due to concerns over the coronavirus. The three-day event took to social media today to announce that they are looking into possible dates for rescheduling."This morning we received notice from the City of Gulf Shores that Hangout 2020 cannot proceed in May due to COVID-19," the post reads.

AEG's beachside festival Hangout Fest has announced that it will not be able to proceed with the May 15-17 event due to concerns over the coronavirus. The three-day event took to social media today to announce that they are looking into possible dates for rescheduling."This morning we received notice from the City of Gulf Shores that Hangout 2020 cannot proceed in May due to COVID-19," the post reads.

The 2020 CMA Fest has been canceled amid the ongoing world health crisis.

The CMA Festival, the world’s largest country music gathering, has been canceled for 2020, rather than trying to push the mass gathering set for June in Nashville to a later date in the year.

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Scott Borchetta is fighting the coronavirus one bottle of hand sanitizer at a time.The Big Machine Label Group president/CEO recently spoke about how his company's Nashville-based liquor business, Big Machine Distillery, which produces premium vodka, is using its facilities to produce donated bottles of hand sanitizer for local first responders."We feel fortunate to be in a position to serve our community during these challenging times," Borchetta tweeted.

JoJo has rescheduled her Spring tour dates that would have kicked off on April in Washington. In support of her upcoming album good to know, the pop star will now launch her 2020 U.S. dates on Nov. 1 at the Showbox in Seattle.

returned on Thursday with the show's drama-packed season 18 premiere — where tensions ran high between Kourtney and her sisters, Kim and Khloe, but things were surprisingly chill between Khloe and her ex, Tristan Thompson.

They will return early next year

Metallica is rescheduling their April tour dates and will no longer appear at the Danny Wimmer Presents spring festivals, due to the spreading coronavirus, it was announced Monday (March 23).The iconic rock band had been scheduled to perform at DWP's Epicenter May 1-3 in North Carolina, Welcome to Rockville May 8-10 in Florida and Sonic Temple May 15-17 in Ohio."As many of you know, in our nearly forty years of touring, we’ve had a few mishaps along the way; broken bones, trashed appendixes, a

It seems First Dates star Fred Sirieix didn’t need the show to find love as he was able to do it all by himself, and now he has himself a fiancée.