This Week In Music: South By Southwest Cancellation Raises Future Issues For Live Events

On March 12, a collection of live entertainment professionals created a Change.org petition requesting specialized assistance from the federal government due to the impact of the coronavirus. Within 10 hours of posting, the petition garnered 10,000 signatures and is well on its way to its 500,000 mark two weeks in.The petition highlighted a dire need for economic assistance for an industry that has been entirely halted due to the global pandemic and for a united union to fight for the cause.

Thalia is outraged by the orders given by Mexico’s President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, amid the global coronavirus pandemic.“We’re going to keep living life as usual,” López Obrador said in a video message on Sunday (March 22). “I’ll tell you when not to go out any longer,” he added, explaining that COVID-19 is only its first phase in the country.

One more person is in on Zoey's superpowers.

Trace Adkins is back in the country music game and he’s “Better Off”.

Forty-six years ago, Lupe Hernandez from Bakersfield, California made a discovery that years later would prove to be life saving to people across the globe. It is reported that this Latina nursing student had the idea for hand sanitizer after realizing that alcohol in gel form could be an effective way to clean hands when in a situation where there was no access to soap and clean water.

A Buckingham Palace spokesperson released a statement on the upcoming wedding of Princess Beatrice to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and unfortunately, there has been a big change due to Coronavirus.

Scots holidaymakers in Spain are being urged to return home as soon as possible after hotels were ordered to shut down.

Pitchfork Music Festival Berlin 2020 has been canceled in response to coronavirus. The festival was scheduled to take place at Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany from May 8-9. The lineup included Lianne La Havas, Modeselektor, Tim Hecker, John Talabot, Kelly Lee Owens, rRoxymore, and Nick Hakim. There is no makeup date and all ticket buyers will be refunded. Find Pitchfork’s official statement below.

“The virus is having a catastrophic impact on the UK music industry and will threaten many jobs and businesses"

The Crown is one of the very few shows that has not shut down amid Coronavirus fears.

Selena Gomez, 27, was looking beautiful in a new selfie on Mar. 14! The singer was scheduled to take some Puma ad photos for her partnership with the sneaker company but after the photo shoot was canceled last minute, she posed for an Instagram photo instead.

With the coronavirus outbreak showing no signs of abating, the number of European countries banning public performances continues to rise. Yet despite nearly all of its neighbors introducing bans on public events, the United Kingdom -- one of the world’s largest live music markets -- remained one of the few touring hotspots to resist pressure to suspend concerts and sporting events.

LONDON — With the coronavirus outbreak showing no signs of abating, the number of European countries banning public performances continues to rise.Yet despite nearly all of its neighbors introducing bans on public events, the United Kingdom -- one of the world’s largest live music markets -- remained one of the few touring hotspots to resist pressure to suspend concerts and sporting events.Concerts by David Gray at London’s The O2 (March 26), Stereophonics at the Manchester Arena (March 13) and

No Coachella, no problem.

Miami's annual Winter Music Conference has been canceled, organizers announced Monday (March 9), following Florida Governor Ron Desantis state of emergency declaration earlier in the day.pic.twitter.com/Zimny2GK3S— Winter Music Conference (@WMCtweets) March 9, 2020This story is developing...

As Coronavirus continues to spread globally, restrictions on travel and large pulic gatherings has meant major concerts and entertainment events have been postposed on cancelled entirely. 

South by Southwest, a film, music, television, and interactive conference that takes place in Austin, Texas, has been cancelled for the first time in 34 years due to fears over the coronavirus.

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An impoverished laborer returns home one day to find that social services have taken his children, after the family’s increasingly dire circumstances push his wife to commit a desperate act. With a corrupt local administrator blocking the way to a fair hearing to get them back, the man decides to cross the country on foot in order to plead his case to the government in Belgrade.

The 2020 Ultra Music Festival has been canceled amid Coronavirus concerns.