Two days after organizers behind the ridiculously troubled Woodstock 50 festival announced they were moving locations (again) from their former proposed locations in upstate New York, to the smaller, 32,000-capacity Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, Dead & Company confirmed with Rolling Stone that they will no longer headline the three-day music festival.
A representative of the band did not immediately return a request for comment.
The news comes in the wake of the festival’s organizers announcing that they have formally released all of the artists who were scheduled to perform at the initially-planned event from their contracts.
According to a report from Billboard shared on Friday afternoon, The Killers, Miley Cyrus, Santana, The Lumineers, The Raconteurs, Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, The Jewels, and many more are now free from their contractual obligations to perform at the event, which is still scheduled for August 16th-18th. The news also came just a day after both Jay-Z and John Fogerty pulled out of taking part in what has become the best joke of the 2019 concert season thus far.
A letter sent from Woodstock 50 organizer Michael Lang to the agents of participating artists explained their clients were still welcome to play the festival at its new location, but were no longer legally obligated to show up.
[H/T Rolling Stone]
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