Le Coronavirus vient de faire une nouvelle victime dans le milieu événementiel. Et il s’agit de l’un des plus importants festivals de musique au monde.
Glastonbury a officiellement annulé son édition 2020 qui devait se tenir du 24 au 28 juin prochain. Le festival devait présenter des artistes comme Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Lana Del Rey, Cage The Elephant, Dua Lipa, Camila Cabello, Tones and I, Thom Yorke de Radiohead, Noel Gallagher, Robyn, Anderson. Paak et plusieurs autres. Environ 200 000 personnes étaient attendues.
Cette annulation est alarmante pour deux raisons. D’abord, il s’agissait du 50e anniversaire de Glastonbury. On comprend que le festival voulait vraiment que cette édition ait lieu. Ensuite (et le point le plus important), est que cette annulation survient pour un festival qui se tient à la fin du mois de juin. Il reste encore 2 mois avant sa tenue.
Est-ce que cela mettra la table pour d’autres annulations de festivals à l’été 2020? Ce sera à voir. Jusqu’à présent, la majorité des annulations ou des reports concernaient des événements du printemps 2020.
Bref, il ne faut pas voir trop loin pour le moment. La situation change rapidement tous les jours et les festivals du Québec ont tous mentionné qu’il continuait leurs préparatifs pour le moment.
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Communiqué Annulation Glastonbury 2020
We are so sorry to announce this, but Glastonbury 2020 will have to be cancelled, and this will be an enforced fallow year for the Festival.
Clearly this was not a course of action we hoped to take for our 50th anniversary event, but following the new government measures announced this week – and in times of such unprecedented uncertainty – this is now our only viable option.
We very much hope that the situation in the UK will have improved enormously by the end of June. But even if it has, we are no longer able to spend the next three months with thousands of crew here on the farm, helping us with the enormous job of building the infrastructure and attractions needed to welcome more than 200,000 people to a temporary city in these fields.
We would like to send our sincere apologies to the 135,000 people who have already paid a deposit for a Glastonbury 2020 ticket. The balance payments on those tickets were due at the beginning of April and we wanted to make a firm decision before then.
We understand that it is not always easy to secure a Glastonbury ticket, which is why we would like to offer all those people the chance to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, and guarantee the opportunity to buy a ticket for Glastonbury 2021. Those who would prefer a refund of that £50 will be able to contact See Tickets in the coming days in order to secure that. This option will remain available until September this year. For those who are happy to roll their deposit over, that will happen automatically. Further information – including details on rolling over coach packages, official accommodation bookings and local Sunday tickets – will be added to our website in the coming days.
The cancellation of this year’s Festival will no doubt come as a terrible blow to our incredible crew and volunteers who work so hard to make this event happen. There will also inevitably be severe financial implications as a result of this cancellation – not just for us, but also the Festival’s charity partners, suppliers, traders, local landowners and our community.
We were so looking forward to welcoming you all for our 50th anniversary with a line-up full of fantastic artists and performers that we were incredibly proud to have booked. Again, we’re so sorry that this decision has been made. It was not through choice. But we look forward to welcoming you back to these fields next year and until then, we send our love and support to all of you.
Michael & Emily
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Programmation Glastonbury 2020
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Pendant ce temps, le Festival d’été de Québec sort publiquement pour commenter le COVID-19 et son édition 2020.