"We did not want to take this step but it is unavoidable"
07.04.2020 - 16:23 / billboard.com
Update: As of Monday (April 6), the 2020 edition of Denmark's Roskilde Festival is no longer happening this summer. "The Danish authorities have just prolonged its prohibition against larger assemblies until August 31st 2020.
The prohibition also goes for this year’s Roskilde Festival," organizers said in a statement."We are devastated. Though we feared this would happen, we have until now hoped that it wouldn’t end this way.
"We did not want to take this step but it is unavoidable"
Shambhala Music Festival 2020 will not happen due to coronavirus.In a statement released by the Canadian electronic festival Tuesday (April 21), organizers announced that the event scheduled for July 24-27, 2020, will be "postponed" until July 2021, when the next iteration of the festival was scheduled to occur."We are truly sorry for any inconvenience our postponement may have caused, and we give our full support and recognition to Dr.
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The Coronavirus outbreak has put a halt to almost everything around the world. As countries have resorted to stricter rules for curbing the entire situation and combating the deadly virus, multiple events and occasions have been cancelled to date.
The 2020 Montreux Jazz Festival, one of Europe’s best-known and longest-running live music events, has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.Though the Swiss Federal Council announced this week that it would be gradually easing some of the protective measures against the COVID-19 outbreak, it remains “impossible for us to consider holding an event on the scale of Montreux Jazz Festival in July,” reads a statement from organizers.
The Coronavirus outbreak has affected many events that were due in the time to come, however, now that there are relatively more restrictions imposed as far as huge gatherings are concerned in order to curb the spreading of the COVID 19 virus, turns out, Cannes Film Festival 2020 is not going to happen this summer after all.
As concern grows over the worldwide spread of COVID-19, commonly known as coronavirus, many are taking proactive measures to keep themselves safe from the flu-like virus, which can be fatal in the most extreme cases.
Latin music stars Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Luis Fonsi, J Balvin, Diane Guerrero and Ana Brenda Contreras have teamed for Eva Longoria's virtual Cinco de Mayo celebration, hosted by iHeartLatino, RetroPop Media, CIEN+, The Latinx House, WFHN-TV, Hispanics in Philanthropy, Hispanic Heritage Foundation and farmworker-serving organizations led by Justice for Migrant Women, among others. In support of the millions of farmworkers across the U.S.
The 2020 Burning Man festival has been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
The 2020 Burning Man Festival has officially been canceled.
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and its associated market, has been called off this year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The 2020 edition, set to be Annecy's 60th anniversary, was scheduled to run June 15-20.
This year would've been the 50th staging of the Danish festival
Jones had been appointed as the curator of this year's now-axed event
La Linea, London’s emblematic annual Latin music event, has been rescheduled for the fall after organizers were forced to cancel original April and May concert dates due to the coronavirus crisis.The concert series' 20th anniversary edition is now set to open on Sept. 4 with Cuban band Maykel Blanco y su Salsa Mayor, joined by Dorance Lorza’s London salsa band and a cast of DJs at Electric Brixton.
The National have canceled their 2020 Homecoming Festival. “We made every attempt to reschedule Homecoming for 2020, however due to circumstances beyond our control, the festival will not take place this year as planned,” the band wrote in a statement. Homecoming 2020 was scheduled to take place May 8 and 9 in the National’s hometown of Cincinnati. Find the National’s announcement below.
Summer will certainly not be the same in Festival City this year.The bad news is there will be little mirth on our streets, at a time when we could use all the mirth that can be mustered in light of
Pale Waves will headline the one-day event later this year
Amazon Prime Video announced that it will host a handful of titles that were set to screen at this year’s SXSW film festival. The SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection will be open to all users with an Amazon login in the United States, not just those with a Prime subscription, for ten days. A launch date for the online festival has yet to be announced. See more details about the program here.
Download Festival, Britain’s premier rock and metal fest, will skip this year’s edition due to the global health crisis.
Britain’s Isle of Wight festival has scrapped its 2020 edition due to the coronavirus crisis.