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Festival cancellations due to Corona: Seven mega-events such as "Rock am Ring" affected - "Today is a particularly damn day"

2021-03-10T10:22:58.118Z


Seven large open-air festivals in Germany and Switzerland will also be canceled this year due to the corona pandemic.


Seven large open-air festivals in Germany and Switzerland will also be canceled this year due to the corona pandemic.

Munich - This was announced by the event network, Eventim Live, on Wednesday.

"Rock am Ring", "Rock im Park", "Hurricane Festival" and "Southside" have been canceled.

"Rock am Ring": The wording of the rejection statement

The following statement can be read on the Facebook page of “Rock am Ring”, which we reproduce here in full.

With a heavy heart we have to announce today that Rock am Ring and Rock im Park 2021 will have to be canceled, as last year, due to Covid-19.


We understand that you are very disappointed about this - because we feel the same way.

But against the background of the still uncertain infection situation and the extension of the “epidemic situation with national consequences” by the Bundestag until at least the end of June, festivals of this size are simply not feasible in the near future.


Even though we wanted so much to get together with you this year in the Eifel or in Nuremberg, to meet old and new friends, to watch concerts, to dance and to celebrate together, we now had to realize that this is unfortunately not possible .

Your health and the health of our service providers and artists are our top priority.


We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your patience and trust.

Let's keep the spirit of our festivals alive together and now look with confidence and anticipation to 2022, when Rock am Ring and Rock im Park will return as strong as ever from June 3rd to 5th.


In a few weeks we will go live with an online platform with which you can easily swap your tickets for 2022 tickets, just like last year.


After this exchange phase, we will allow everyone who wants to return their tickets to receive a refund.

We ask for your understanding that this will take some time to process.


You can read more information soon in the FAQs on our website.


At the same time we will of course share news about confirmed bands for the next year with you in good time and on an ongoing basis.

So you can relax and choose one of the options: Stay tuned for updates.

Hurricane Festival: The wording of the cancellation statement

Almost at the same time, the following statement went online on the Hurricane Festival's Facebook page, which we also reproduce in full:

Dear Lockdown Diary,


Today is one of the particularly shitty days.

Because today we have to disappoint all the people again, because of whom we are doing the whole bang here in the first place.

We somehow have to tell all the festival crazy people, the music freaks, all the live junkies and favorite guests out there that the Hurricane Festival has to be postponed until next year due to the infection situation.

The 2021 hurricane is already history.

The resignation that sloshes through our home offices feels dull and tastes like stale beer, far too much coffee and nicotine gum.

We miss it all so much ...


We tried everything.

With a bunch of large and small organizers, as well as violent virologists, hygienists and other experts, we worked for months on infection protection and hygiene concepts that festivals could possibly have made possible, ultimately for the cat this year.

The ongoing uncertainty regarding the political framework and financial support, the delay in the vaccination rollout and the new virus mutants really kicked us in the buttocks.

It was and is very clear: the health of our guests, the crew and the artists comes first - always!

And that's why we took a quick breath today and decided: farewell Hurricane 2021 - hello Hurricane 2022!


Even if the light at the end of the tunnel slides back a long way - it is still a light!

In any case, we can hardly wait to open the gates on June 17-19, 2022, shoo the bands onto the stage and turn the sound systems to 11.

We look forward to the first hand bread, to the tents and pavilions in a good mood, to slo-mo zones, free hugs, cheers and cheers.

And the soundtrack for it, a whole bunch of the bands that were hip for 2021, we'll be shooting out soon!


It's also great that people can simply use their 2021 tickets for the 2022 festival and don't have to do anything!

For all further questions, we have put together an FAQ that will hopefully answer all the important questions people out there


may have

: www.hurricane.de/de/verschichtung/faq

Dear Diary, Perhaps this day is not quite as bad as we are up to now still thought.

Maybe because we could already smell the field a little bit and feel the wind on our necks for a brief moment.

See, hear and taste the festival.

Very short.


With love,


your Hurricane team.




More information will follow shortly.

(lin)

Source: merkur

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