Organizers are attempting to move Woodstock 50 to Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbus, Maryland after their permit to stage the festival in Vernon, New York was rejected.
Organizers of the Woodstock 50 festival have formally released all artists scheduled to play from their contracts, John Fogerty and Jay-Z had already reportedly pulled out of the Aug. 16-18 festival and Thursday night, reps for the festival and organizer Michael Lang emailed talent agents with bands on the bill and informed them that they would not try to enforce performance contracts for the event.
Moving the event 350 miles south would be a breach of the performance contract many artist signed, although most agents believed that Woodstock 50 had breached their contracts in late April when investor Dentsu, who had spent millions on upfront artist advances, pulled out of the event and tried to cancel the festival. Today's news frees the artists on the lineup to perform at different events on Aug.
After the Dentsu cancellation in late April, many artists had remained quiet expecting festival organizers to cancel, but instead Woodstock organizers refused to throw in the towel, racking up months of losses in court, having multiple permit applications rejected and a steady stream of event professionals -- including three different festival producers -- try to save the festival, only to quit weeks later.
With news that the event was trying to move 350 miles away, agents representing the acts on the original Woodstock 50 roster said the shift was a breach of the performance contract, which said the anniversary event would be held in Watkins Glen, New York. Woodstock 50 organizers are now trying to book new artists for a possible event at Merriweather Post Pavilion, with the venues operater Seth Hurwitz from I.M.P. telling "Michael Lang called me a week ago about doing the show in DC proper but, on this short notice, there really wasn’t anywhere to do that. I suggested Merriweather would be a low risk option and is considered DC. Plus it has a similar historic legacy," Hurwitz tells .
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