In fact, there’s not gonna any Woodstock 50th anniversary at all:
The musical celebration of 50 years since 1969’s Woodstock festival, an all-star concert that once had a lineup of Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, the Lumineers, Chance the Rapper and more, was officially cut Wednesday afternoon.
The festival was set to kick off in two weeks, and promoters had reached out to Howard County and Merriweather Post Pavilion about bringing their festival to the venue this summer.
Fortunately, the stars could not align for this to happen* and thus f*ck up traffic for miles about, very much including where I live. Oh, yeah, I’m cresting on the NIMBY wave right now and I DON’T CARE. Didn’t want it, wouldn’t have been a good time, would have taken forever to clean up. My county executive should be breathing a sigh of relief on this one, because if there had been an actual concert he’d have been hearing about it for the rest of his life. Probably via people yelling in his face.
Via Facebook.
Moe Lane
*Sort-of literal stars, really: apparently some of the acts couldn’t do it, and others wouldn’t do it. Either way, I salute you, unknown singers. Your deeds have been seen.
… thank your local A&R guy(s) ..
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I *suspect* the music industry have realized shaking their money-makers at what’s doomed to be a huge politicized nightmare festival (meaning no offense but Coachella and Burning Man set a bar the east coast cannot meet ..) ..
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.. **even if it goes really well** (and it’s not a Fyre Festival redux) ..
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… will inevitably turn off some of the artists’ target audience, cutting into the labels’ profits.
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Mew