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(REUTERS): The Coachella Valley Music, scheduled to be held in April, was canceled because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a public health order released Friday by California’s Riverside County.
“The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival currently scheduled for April 2021 are hereby cancelled,” an order from Riverside County Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser said.
The official said the Coachella and Stagecoach music and arts festivals, both scheduled to take place in April, attract hundreds of thousands of attendees from many countries, including several disproportionately afflicted by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
“If COVID-19 were detected at these festivals, the scope and number of attendees and the nature of the venue would make it infeasible, if not impossible, to track those who may be placed at risk,” Kaiser added.
Festival organisers did not say if they would attempt to find a later date for the 2021 festival. Coachella and Stagecoach are usually held every year on two weekends in April in the California desert.
The 2020 edition of Coachella, which was to feature headliners Travis Scott, Frank Ocean and Rage Against the Machine, was postponed from its April 2020 weekends to October. In June, the county canceled it entirely.
