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Covid-19: the 2021 edition of the Eurockéennes de Belfort is canceled

2021-04-02T08:04:33.153Z


The Belfort Eurockéennes festival, scheduled for this summer, has been canceled due to constraints related to the health situation.


Scheduled from July 1 to 4 with Muse, DJ Snake and Massive Attack as headliners, the rock festival, the Eurokéennes de Belfort is canceled for the second consecutive year.

"After having hoped so much, we decided not to sacrifice the spirit of the Eurocks on the altar of the pandemic", explains the festival adding: "by imposing the seated and distanced configuration, this 2021 framework excludes a number of aesthetics musicals such as rock, electro, metal or hip-hop which are at the heart of our artistic project.

“Indeed, the framework set by the government for the organization of a festival imposes a gauge of 5,000 people maximum, seated and distanced.

During a consultation organized in early March by the organizing team, festival-goers were overwhelmingly in favor of presenting a Covid-19 screening test to access the festival and wearing a mask.

On the other hand, the idea of ​​attending the festival sitting down was rejected by 72%.

Holders of day tickets or a three-day pass will be automatically reimbursed "within 60 days".

On the other hand, holders of a ticket for the Muse concert on July 4, "are invited to keep their ticket", specify the Eurockéennes de Belfort, awaiting "very soon good news for 2022".

The Eurockéennes thus join the list of many festivals canceled this summer like Solidays, Hellfest or Garorock which had not already been able to be held in 2020.

"It's sad, the list is growing and it's not over"

"It's sad, the list is growing and it is not over," said Malika Seguineau, Prodiss (National Union of Musical and Variety Show).

"The big fall tours depend to a large extent on the holding of festivals: we end up thinking that 2021 could be worse than 2020 ... It's terrible," she adds.

Art Rock (80,000 people in 2019 in Saint-Brieuc) highlighted on Tuesday the "deterioration of the health context and the total lack of perspective as to the reopening of cultural places" to justify its cancellation.

Art Rock hopes to be able to set up an alternative event in September but already evokes “6 million euros of economic flows and more than 1.8 million receipts which will miss the economy of our territory (region).

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For now, among the major current music festivals, Les Vieilles Charrues (270,000 spectators in 2019) and Francofolies (150,000 in 2019) have promised to take place while adapting.

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To darken the picture even more, the test concerts are constantly being postponed in France when a concert in Barcelona in Spain brought together 5,000 spectators.

They were not taken into account for this summer, but to prepare for a possible reopening of standing concert halls this fall.

“In Paris, an experiment with 5,000 people standing in concert at Bercy is in particular envisaged.

"The health protocols are completed and sent to the authorities for validation," said Malika Seguineau who does not expect a program before May.

Source: leparis

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