The Parisian festival Lollapalooza has canceled its 2020 edition, scheduled for July 18 and 19, due to the health crisis linked to Covid-19, the organization announced on Friday. The event already announces its dates for 2021 on Saturday July 17 and Sunday 18. Pearl Jam, veteran grunge group, which has just released the exciting Gigaton , scheduled this summer at "Lolla", is already scheduled as headlining in a year.
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The festival indicates that the tickets purchased remain valid for next year. More information will be given later on the festival networks. The Lollapalooza gathered around 95,000 spectators over two days in 2019.
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The current music festivals of spring-summer 2019 fall one after the other. Printemps de Bourges and Hellfest (in Loire-Atlantique) have already given up. The references of the genre abroad had already set the tone: Coachella, in California, is postponed in October, The Great Escape and Glastonbury will not take place in 2020 in the United Kingdom, while Primavera Sound in Barcelona has folded up at the end of August.
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The organizers of Vieilles Charrues in July in Brittany and Rock en Seine in late August-early September in Paris had shown themselves pessimistic for the rest of AFP earlier this week. "The American artists, who are building their European tour in a six-week block: will they come when their number of dates has already reduced with the first cancellations? Without our headliners, the situation becomes untenable, ” warned AFP Arnaud Meersseman, head of AEG Presents France, which has Rock en Seine in its portfolio. Jérôme Tréhorel, director of Vieilles Charrues, finds it "difficult for him to imagine an authorization for a meeting of more than 70,000 people per day when questions around deconfinement arise".