Rolling festival / tour / concert / event cancellations due to COVID-19 thread

Post all festival and tour cancellations here. Feel free to also post cancellations of film festivals, conferences, art exhibits, readings, and anything else art or music related. At the very least, it might help those who've already secured event tickets, plane fare, hotels, or babysitters make alternate plans.

So far:

SXSW
Coachella (postponed?)
Big Ears

Heard a few rumors about some bands cancelling upcoming tours but as none of it is official or public yet, I'll wait to post those for now.

I don't really know how touring works. Does anyone know if it is more likely to be clubs and promoters cancelling dates or the artists themselves? If the former, how will small venues survive potentially 6 months (or more) of quarantine? I realize there are bigger fish to fry at the moment but this is likely to be potentially devastating to a lot of people we probably all know.

Bunch of DC venues are suspending all their remaining shows for March: https://wtop.com/entertainment/2020/03/imp-postpones-events-at-930-club-the-anthem-lincoln-theatre/

The rest of Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, which features some of the biggest Country shows around (amongst other stuff--Lizzo was gonna do homecoming show on Friday) was cancelled today.

sort of hoping drive by truckers cancel this weekend so I don't have to make the decision n myself.

Dark Mofo, a nationally prominent music'n'arts festival in Hobart, Tasmania: https://darkmofo.net.au/statement

All gigs with audience larger than 250 are banned in Washington state. Todd Barry and Bikini Kill shows axed in the next few days.

I don't really know how touring works. Does anyone know if it is more likely to be clubs and promoters cancelling dates or the artists themselves?

For non-USA artists, Coachella and SXSW are big tentpole festivals that tours are based around - a spot on Coachella pays enough to make the visa expenses (a massively huge up front expense) worth it to make up for the tight margins for other gigs. Altin Gün and Anna Calvi both had some US dates around Coachella - Altin Gün cancelled everything yesterday, Calvi presumably will shortly (which is frustrating because Calvi had postponed her US shows last year because she got the Coachella gig)

Canadian comics arts festivals as yet uncancelled, by request of health authorities: http://www2.vancaf.com/2020/03/11/update-to-the-comics-community-regarding-covid-19-from-tcaf-and-vancaf/

NAB and E3 conferences cancelled
https://e3expo.com
https://news3lv.com/news/local/national-association-of-broadcasters-conference-in-las-vegas-postponed

Pixies have cancelled the rest of their Aussie tour after someone at a festival they headlined tested positive. (Also 12,000 people at that festival so it will be way more than 1)

A list of cancellations.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/every-coronavirus-cancellation-adam-sandler-000222436.html

Stereolab canceled the China/Japan/Philippines leg of their tour a few days ago.

What makes me sad is that two good friends who were in separate amateur theatrical productions had their shows cancelled after rehearsals for months.

One just moved out of state and had no friends and had just been through a fairly traumatic ordeal a year earlier and this project was helping her feel better about things. Now she's crushed.

Other friend going through a bad depression bout and it was having a similar positive effect on her.

Both get why it needed to be done but it's rough.

We're determining if the 2020 Orlando Fringe will happen now. It's in May, but i am not optimistic. We're in rehearsals

https://pitchfork.com/news/coronavirus-updated-list-of-tours-and-festivals-canceled-or-postponed-due-to-covid-19/

TMBG rescheduled the rest of their tour for the fall

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/what-happens-when-a-music-festival-is-canceled-due-to-coronavirus/

"Artists will surely be counting on fans’ support even more than usual, perhaps through non-concert avenues like merch sales."

lol what

First date of the Van der Graaf Generator tour (Athens, 28 March) cancelled, with probably more cancellations to come.

Yes just pulled out of their 'Cruise To The Edge' in Miami and some early tour dates, gigs are one thing but a Prog cruise with loads of old dudes all trying to shake yer hand is just asking for trouble.

And as the elders beat their brows
They know that it's really far too late now
To stop us
For if the sky is seeded death
What is the point in catching breath?
Expel it
What cause is there left but to die?

The Revealing Science of Pence

Torche have pulled out of their Euro tour so no Roadburn appearance, dunno if that festival can even go ahead if all the American doomsters self-isolate.

Hi there

We're very sorry to announce that due to travel issues relating to the coronavirus, The Dead C have unfortunately had to cancel their forthcoming tour, including the residency dates at OTO in May.

We're working to reschedule this residency as soon as we can. The current situation is obviously a little uncertain concerning travel but we'll let you know details of the new dates as soon as we have them - all originally bought tickets will remain valid.

In the meantime, if anybody wants their tickets refunded we will of course be happy to do so - just give us a shout if that's the case.

All the best,
Cafe OTO

newsletter about how the virus is gonna affect the music industry

https://musicxcorona.substack.com/

Pop Conference, in which music writers, academics and ilx0rs gather annually to listen to each other read jokes and essays about music for three days, has been postponed from late April to TBD, maybe September.

https://www.mopop.org/programs-plus-education/programs/pop-conference/

The Grand Illusion, a 70-seat volunteer-run arthouse cinema in Seattle, is closed until TBD, maybe April. (They had an 24-film A24 retrospective including several on 35mm scheduled for April, which one might expect to have paid the bills for a few months of Soviet and Romanian flicks)

The Juno Awards and a corresponding week of live events in Saskatoon have been cancelled in full.

Finally some good news

Well, my gig in London with my drone 'supergroup' at the end of this month (our first ever) has been cancelled, bah. Probably not a great loss to culture but still gutted.

RRHoF induction ceremony postponed.

Take that, Trent

http://cultureaidnyc.com/resources-2/
https://www.ncaper.org/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1htY4q6Aq2cg1OU7p2Q6i9x8EZy-aOxgLooUp6kgxZzw/preview?mc_cid=b4bd785659&mc_eid=15cfd7b5a8

XP Countdown to the revelation that has all been an elaborate trolling of The Doobie Brothers.

ah, Lollapalooza Chile has been suspended.

for all those waiting to hear.

Live Nation pulling all its tours off the road:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/touring/9333748/live-nation-global-pause-tours-concerts-coronavirus

that's the ball game, really.

NYC is shutting down anything over 500 people and has ominous and unclear plans to restrict smaller gatherings. It's gonna be a rough few months.

Am I right in thinking that for any show scheduled between now and June that this is not an 'if' but a 'when' situation at this point re: canceling? I mean, at some point very soon anyone going forward with events is going to look reckless and arrogant, right?

bowery n mercury close tomorrow

Punk/industrial band L.O.T.I.O.N. just pulled their European tour

Fennesz (who is here right now) just canceled the rest of his US tour.

I called the Blue Note jazz club an hour or so ago to verify whether the Christian Scott show I was planning to see tomorrow night was still happening. They told me it was, but that was before NY Governor Cuomo announced that gatherings of 500+ were banned, and gatherings below that number would have to reduce their attendance by 50%. (The Blue Note holds ~150 people.) I just emailed the publicist to take me off the guest list.

Yes just pulled out of their 'Cruise To The Edge' in Miami and some early tour dates, gigs are one thing but a Prog cruise with loads of old dudes all trying to shake yer hand is just asking for trouble.

― Maresn3st, Thursday, March 12, 2020 7:33 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

covid or no i get an anxiety attack even thinking about this

Horse Lords tour just canceled

Decibel Magazine Tour canceled

been spending the last week and half postponing a west coast tour that was to begin next week, and I can't tell you how hard it was. by march 1st it was clear to me the shows were not a good idea, but it took a week for the rest of the band to stop weighing the situation (varying degrees of financial hardship incurred), and even this weekend we kept getting feedback like 'all commercial venues still expecting you, smaller & mid-sized concerts still safe'. and I'd look at that text, then look at Italy expanding it's quarantine, and crunch the numbers and see SF at 10-14 days behind Italy

no one wants to over-react, but until better data starts coming in, we no longer know what over-reaction is. flattening the curve means social distancing for... twelve months? unthinkable, as recently as last week.

silver lining, I had a ton of concert and festival tickets that I'm about to get refunds on, so unexpected influx of cash to pay my taxes with.

First postponement for a ticket I held: Even As We Speak have deferred all their UK shows. 🙁 The postponement of Cologne Popfest makes the remaining dates no longer viable. Plus who knows what may transpire in next two weeks. Full statement on their Facebook page.

Decibel Metal and Beer Fest postponed but not cancelled.

xp ah I was thinking of going to see EAWS in London soon, OTOH gigs are kind of painful for me at the moment and I already have one coming up so probably not so bad

Guessing Limpe Fuchs on Saturday night in London will have less than 500 people in attendance so I may go, then again it only takes one carrier doesn't it

Nice post by Big Thief
#hippies

Yes' 'Cruise To The Edge' now postponed, Curved Air fans in apoplexy.

If you’re so concerned with safety, be like Stevie Nicks and just cancel your tour. The vaccines aren’t going to stop the spread.

— Scott Mervis (@scottmervis_pg) August 12, 2021

The ‘pop music beat reporter’ for the Pittsburgh paper’s on the case.

Stevie Nicks cancelled her tour because she's 73 and has health issues and doesn't want to be exposed to a bunch of germs from unmasked and/or unvaxxed weirdos for in sets of two hours each spaced out over several weeks.

Was not expecting Saving Country Music to play Devil's Advocate here.

idk you weren’t?

the save country music guy has never struck me as someone who writes in good faith

or worth treating as an authority about anything

It's just he's usually tonedeaf about venue stuff (among other things), so getting such a rounded exploration* of what happened from there was a modest surprise. And despite Scam's general little hate-on for Isbell, it contains most damning evidence of the actions and non-actions of the venue.

*There's more about Live Nation and the venue in this piece than in others I've seen, which limit themselves to Isbell's pov and a mere scratching of the surface of everything else.

oh whoops, sorry reacted v off the cuff without reading lol. thank u c. grisso

Save Country Music guy is a racist-baiting asshole.

Well, yeah.

Live Nation follows AEG and requires proof of vaccination or negative test.

https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/article?id=A-Message-Farmaid-And-The-Pandemic

Nine Inch Nails cancelled the rest of their tour dates for this year.

i feel like most of the people who will be making moves like these will be folks like trent or neil who do not rely on touring income to survive

Ty Segall is going vax-only for upcoming shows.

and by that he means his shows are only people showing up to get vaccines and no actual music

lol Riot Fest replaced NIN with ... Morrissey.

All the NIN fans on my timeline when that news hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBOhQamGGuI

Live Nation follows AEG and requires proof of vaccination or negative test

But not till October. They have summer tour money to make first , without having to have ushers looking at vax cards. They claim the October start is to give staff time to get vaccinated

I'm sure making money (after making summer plans) played a part, but tbf, if you got your first shot of Moderna or Pfizer today, you couldn't get your second shot until somewhere around September 10. And if you got your second shot September 10, you wouldn't be fully vaxxed until around October. That was one of the complaints some were making after Bonnaroo called for vaccines, that it didn't give enough notice for people to get the double-shots in time for the show, just the single dose J&J. Which of course is better than nothing, but if I had my choice that is not necessarily the shot I'd prefer.

That was one of the complaints some were making after Bonnaroo called for vaccines, that it didn't give enough notice for people to get the double-shots in time for the show,

If only someone had informed them about the vaccine at any point before then! My heart, it weeps.

What vaccine?

too busy partying to glance at the news or social media for 12 months

BTS cancels world tour.

pic.twitter.com/QpQAr7q84R

— Sam O’Rama (@samorama) August 20, 2021

I thought it would be cancelled, but Clive Davis's huge Central Park concert is still going (and just missing a tropical storm that's already cancelled the following evening Summerstage concert with Common). I walked by tonight and to my surprise they were doing soundchecks with Patti Smith and Paul Simon. I only stayed for Patti's but she did some standards you've come to expect like "People Have the Power," "Gloria," "Because the Night," etc. Lots of stop and starts, but a nice thing to run into.

CNN will stream it live tomorrow at 5 p.m. EST, and it's free to watch, i.e. you don't have to login/have an account to get the whole thing.

Article summarizing the state of things:

Are concerts safe? For a growing number of artists and tour pros, risk outweighs reward https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-08-23/delta-variant-concerts-cancellations

Ironically, 'twas not Covid that killed Bonnaroo this year:

We are absolutely heartbroken to announce that we must cancel Bonnaroo. While this weekend’s weather looks outstanding, currently Centeroo is waterlogged in many areas, the ground is incredibly saturated on our tollbooth paths, and the campgrounds are flooded to the point that...

— Bonnaroo (@Bonnaroo) August 31, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kiss-postpones-concerts-after-paul-stanley-gene-simmons-catch-covid?

https://www.nashvillecasketsales.com/assets/images/kiss11-800x600.jpg

Caskets are not autographed. Picture is of Gene Simmons autographing our prototype.

[Cancels order...]

If you should happen to feel like you have a little too much faith in humanity today, I suggest you take a quick stroll through the responses in that Bonnaroo tweet thread to have them knocked back down to reasonable levels.

They should go camp out in that sloppy flooded mudfield in protest.

A lotta people not understanding that you can be mad about something and not go on Twitter about it.

Meanwhile in Nebraska, rain just means they're just moving indoors:

A Christian rock show tonight and a country rock show tomorrow will be moved indoors at the State Fair in Grand Island with no masks or vaccines required.

The Covid vaccination rate in Hall County is under 42%, and the rates of surrounding counties are even lower. This is nuts. https://t.co/371bt1a3oY

— Ted Genoways (@TedGenoways) September 1, 2021

Sometimes I wonder if it's less COVID fatigue than it is just like living fatigue

that's the crux, i think. we're a spiritually sick society

Neko Case cancelling the rest of her tour with AC Newman.

That’s a weekend of sold-out shows for them. Damn.

This weekend’s shows are unfortunately postponed due to illness. New dates will be:
Fri Jan 14 - New York, Irving Plaza
Sat Jan 15 - Boston, The Royale

— Guided By Voices (@_GuidedByVoices) September 9, 2021

Not able to confirm that this is COVID related, to be transparent, but not great news.

Just noticed today that Dinosaur Jr are no longer on the Riot Fest line up, and their home page tour section has many dates listed as postponed. Bummer. I feel bad for Ryley Walker, as that would have been an excellent bill. I wasn't ready for indoor shows yet, and didn't get tix for their separate Chicago show.

Sorry, y’all pic.twitter.com/z3BWdO67HB

— clipping. (@clppng) September 13, 2021

Faith No More now too:

pic.twitter.com/7vFtlB34lP

— Faith No More (@FaithNoMore) September 14, 2021

Just whiplash to see these cancellations coming in between new tour announcements (Mastodon/Opeth tour for one).

That's not due to covid though. Patton is struggling with mental health issues.

A statement from Mike Patton pic.twitter.com/uUIZdlefAm

— Ipecac Recordings (@IpecacRec) September 14, 2021

thanks for that, sorry. i hadn't seen Patton's separate release and the first tweet linking the FNM announcement said it was from COVID and i jumped the gun.

accidentally posted this in the wrong thread:

Dead and Company cancelled their two Florida shows coming up next month. Official reasoning being "routing and production logistics", but I won't be surprised to lean that is has more to do with DeSantis and his anti-vaccine proof stance. They've been pretty big on proof of vaccine requirements at their shows and vocally concerned about Delta. Considering they are still managing the "routing and production logistics" are still getting them through North Carolina and Georgia, it's hard not to read between the lines about why only the Florida shows got scratched.

Judas Priest cancelled rest of US tour, though NOT due to COVID, but due to Richie Faulkner's ticker problems (he's my age!!! ;_;)

This was the thread I was actually looking for, but as mentioned in the other thread, Sturgill Simpson cancelled a bunch of shows (including his Webster Hall residency) due to ongoing vocal issues. He had COVID last year so maybe it's long-term effects?

North America 2021 - An important message to our fans pic.twitter.com/P492jPH8WW

— Dead Can Dance (@DCDmusic) September 20, 2021

Update on our North American 2021 Tour Dates pic.twitter.com/fmAMz9eHRM

— Dead Can Dance (@DCDmusic) September 29, 2021