The 50th-anniversary Woodstock festival, which had been set to come to the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, after having fallen through in two New York State sites, has been canceled.
“We are saddened that a series of unforeseen setbacks has made it impossible to put on a festival we imagined with the great line-up we had booked and the social engagement we were anticipating,” festival organizer Michael Lang, a co-founder of the original Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, said in a statement Wednesday.
The shows were going to be held Aug. 16-18, and were designed to raise awareness and money for HeadCount, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing voter registration and participation that works mainly at music festivals.
Lang encouraged “artists and agents, who all have been fully paid, to donate 10% of their fees to HeadCount or causes of their choice in the spirit of peace.”
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Good.The patrons are mostly liberal Trump haters anyway.
ReplyDeleteQuick organizers call Jake Day. He's a stooge that falls for every scam any snake oil saleman is selling. Like his asinine folk festival that was supposed to boost the economy in such great numbers. He spent a massive amount of tax payers dollars and the tax payers go no return on their investment. Days too stupid to know no other areas wanted to host the folk festival because it's a losing proposition Just like this woodstock thing but go ahead give Day a call he's such a fool he will go for it and pledge any amount of money services he can.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, Santana couldn't play during the Aug 16-18 Merriweather event (since they are playing at Jiffy Lube Aug 14..about 90 miles away)....but CAN play at the smaller event (Aug 15-18) further way in upper NY.
ReplyDeletehmmmm...something smells and it isn't the great unwashed either!
Told ya last post. =)
ReplyDelete20 minutes from downtown Baltimore, the insurance cost must have been insanely high.
ReplyDeleteThe sound system sucks at Merriweather.
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ReplyDeleteTo be rescheduled at Joke's Ditchside Coliseum? Asking for a friend.
The magic is gone. It's not the sixties anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe hippies are old and dying.
Goodbye the the Hillary Clinton generation!
You have caused enough damage already!
Peace ,Love ,War,Pot, Music... Never Be That Same Feeling Again ! Lol
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