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MANCHESTER, Tenn. — The 2021 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has been canceled conscionable days earlier it was acceptable to begin.
Organizers said the determination to cancel the lawsuit was owed to the flooding the workplace experienced this week owed to Hurricane Ida.
Festival organizers released the pursuing connection astir the cancellation:
We person done everything successful our powerfulness to effort to support the amusement moving forward, but Mother Nature has dealt america a tremendous magnitude of rainfall implicit the past 24 hours, and we person tally retired of options to effort to marque the lawsuit hap safely and successful a mode that lives up to the Bonnaroo experience.
Please find ways to safely stitchery with your Bonnaroo assemblage and proceed to radiate positivity during this disappointing time. WE WILL SEE YOU ON THE FARM IN JUNE 2022!
All tickets purchased done Front Gate Tickets volition beryllium refunded successful arsenic small arsenic 30 days to the archetypal method of payment."
This year's festival was scheduled for Sept. 2-5.
Last year's lawsuit was canceled owed to COVID-19.
Instead, organizers opted for a three-day virtual lawsuit that featured caller and archived performances.
The four-day festival was expected to beryllium headlined by The Foo Fighters, Lizzo and Tyler, The Creator.
Other performers included Megan Thee Stallion, Tame Impala, Lana Del Rey, Jason Isbell, and the 400 Unit, Leon Bridges and Incubus.
Although the upwind was the crushed for the cancellation of Bonnaroo, quality of the euphony festival canceling comes aft respective different touring acts person had to cancel owed to COVID-19.
KISS had to cancel their amusement successful Pittsburgh aft frontman Paul Stanley tested affirmative for the virus.
Caroline Sutton astatine WTVF archetypal reported this story.
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