Meltdown Festival 2020 cancelled over coronavirus concerns — but Grace Jones will curate the 2021 festival

"We did not want to take this step but it is unavoidable"

Shambhala Music Festival 2020 will not happen due to coronavirus.In a statement released by the Canadian electronic festival Tuesday (April 21), organizers announced that the event scheduled for July 24-27, 2020, will be "postponed" until July 2021, when the next iteration of the festival was scheduled to occur."We are truly sorry for any inconvenience our postponement may have caused, and we give our full support and recognition to Dr.

The 2020 Montreux Jazz Festival, one of Europe’s best-known and longest-running live music events, has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.Though the Swiss Federal Council announced this week that it would be gradually easing some of the protective measures against the COVID-19 outbreak, it remains “impossible for us to consider holding an event on the scale of Montreux Jazz Festival in July,” reads a statement from organizers.

The 2020 Burning Man festival has been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

The 2020 Burning Man Festival has officially been canceled.

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and its associated market, has been called off this year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The 2020 edition, set to be Annecy's 60th anniversary, was scheduled to run June 15-20.

This year would've been the 50th staging of the Danish festival

After initially stating March 13 that it planned to move forward with its scheduled July 1-5 dates in New Orleans, Essence Fest 2020 announced late Friday (March 27) that it will move "closer to the fall" instead, given the heightened concerns around the coronavirus."Based on developments over the past couple of weeks, including updates from our city and health partners, we are officially announcing that we will move the 2020 ESSENCE Festival of Culture closer to the fall," reads a tweet from

The 2020 Isle of Wight Festival will no longer be taking place this year due to the ongoing health crisis.

By Peter White

The new music weekender in Brighton is the latest in a long line of events to be called off

The 2020 edition of the Cannes Film Festival has been postponed by the organizers owing to the Coronavirus crisis which has gripped almost every country in the world. Speculations were already rife about the prestigious film festival getting canceled in the wake of COVID 19 scare due to the fear of infection and now the reports have turned out to be true. The mega event was originally scheduled to be held from May 12 to May 23, 2020, in France.

Glastonbury Festival 2020 – its 50th anniversary event – has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Organizers of Glastonbury Festival, one of the world's most famous, not to mention largest, music events, has announced that its 2020 edition will no longer take place due to growing fears of the coronavirus pandemic.

The 2020 Eurovision song contest has been cancelled. The event’s 65th edition was to take place in Rotterdam from May 12-16 and be broadcast live globally. “We, like the millions of you around the world, are extremely saddened that it cannot take place in May,” organize